В LKML идет интересное обсуждение, там автор треда выразил мнение, что для тотального успеха необходимо избавиться всего от четырех вещей:
- Ethernet
- Multi-Monitor
- Multi-User
- Optical drive support
Аргументация проста и понятна каждому:
Ethernet is «just bloat - devices only have it for the stubborn old geezers. Other than that, no one really uses it. Who expects that thick cabling running through our offices? I don't!»
Multi-monitor support is deemed obselete by this user since «the new way for technology is mobile. The desktop is dead, and Linux on the desktop has been deader than dead since it was conceived.»
Multi-user support should be dropped because «no one really expects a single device to be used by two people!»
The ending of optical support on Linux is on the basis of «The CD, DVD and Blu-Ray are today what the Floppy was 15 years ago - obsolete and yet still in use - where you need multiple disks for one thing - And even most people's internet are faster than a CD drive.»
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1209.0/03365.html
