I keep getting sucked into KDE 4. It just doesn't seem to want to run stable on any of my hardware. I'm sure some people out their having it running great. But I haven't had much luck. I haven't tried to or even looked up how to optimize it cause I usually don't care that much about the gui. I just find it interesting that distributions are incorporating it so early. But as a gui interface, an alternative gui interface and considering how hard Nokia is trying to push the latest QT I can understand the logic.
But imagine if Samba 4 was released today, because they wanted to adopt it. That would quickly become very frustrating. I have been eagerly waiting for a production ready release for quiete awhile. Just for the oppurtunity to even considering eliminating all those active directory servers or at least cutting them down. I honestly believe Samba 4 could be whats needed to finally bring Linux onto the mainstream desktop. I can't say its entirely a good thing. But I could see it happening and its exciting considering how long I've spent convencing friends and family to switch. Or at least considering their opions. At least it give microsoft a run for their money. But if Samba 4 took off and began mass adoption and migration. The implication would be massive. Once the server end was moved to linux in the domain controller sector, it wouldn't be longer before organization considered moving their workstations too.
Now when you think about it, this could be what Oracle has in mind. Sun's offerings make up a good chunk of the average linux distribution. If Oracle controlled them and linux took off on the desktop, Oracle would be in a very similar situation to where Microsoft is today. And knowing what I know about their history I think their is a very good chance, they may be planning to try and bring linux into the main stream and have their name on it. Hopefully better then Corels Walmart attempt.
