Top ten issues facing Linux servers
- Linux currently has the image that commercial software and vendors are second class citizens. How do they dispel this? Also how do Linux advocates change the expectation that on Linux all software should be as close to free as possible?
- How does Linux match the marketing muscle of Microsoft? Studies like ‘Gets the Facts on Windows and Linux’ and other comparisons omit key issues that would change the balance of opinion. Magazines and print websites don’t challenge these studies as Microsoft is often one of their biggest advertising incomes.
- How can the core Linux operating system serve the divergent needs of computing devices in a common way without splintering or becoming too huge and unwieldy?
- How does Linux match the marketing muscle of Microsoft? Studies like Gets the Facts on Windows and Linux comparisons omit key issues that would change the balance. Magazines and print websites don’t challenge these studies as Microsoft is one of the biggest advertising revenues.
- How does Linux meet the demands of specific markets, such as multimedia or storage management, that look for specific hardware and operating system modules that serve their needs but may even hinder or degrade performance and/or reliability in other segments?
- How does Linux cope with governments that want to impose their security, availability and privacy access rules, filters, and routines onto Linux applications and even into the Linux core and kernel? How does Linux respond to moral and ethical challenges?
- How can Linux foster major IT innovation - say a speech recognition hardware/software module that ties closely in with the X-Windows and interface systems?
- How does Linux resolve the quandary confronting all operating systems - how to retire and replace working and usable code packages with more efficient, performance and/or functional code.
- How does Linux rate and evaluate its packages and components for reliability, performance and usability in a systematic and transparent/objective fashion? How does the Linux team use this information to determine the next version's features list and priorities?
- How does Linux provide for succession when Linus Torvalds no longer wants to carry the leadership torch?
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