Golem reported euphoric yesterday that a group of developers was able to install Linux operating system on the iPhone and iPod Touch. When I read the article more carefully, I understood that the project is still in its infancy. The developers were able to port a real Linux on the iPhone and iPod Touch, but it still lacks many features, like graphical user interface or a possibility of keyboard input, without to connect the device to PC. The developers are happy about the possibility to have a command line on the iPhone. They are really hard Linux guys. But, the device from Apple is so popular because it is so easy to operate. And some people trying to install on such device a Linux console and wish that others share their happiness about this fact. Well. Although I am a Linux adherent, I could not understand, why I have to use on my iPod something like that instead of really good GUI from Apple. I will do it never in life. Sure, someone will write in the commentary that it is only the beginning and so on. This reminds me to a little older article from Spiegel Online, about a physicists who reported to be able to develop a substance that can make people invisible. The article had an image with a transparent man. I clicked on the article and read it through. I found that there is no connection between the image and the development of those scientists, because the alleged development worked in reality only in the laboratory and only in a vacuum.
I would be rather happy if the Linux developers would try to make a font support, and generally the graphical user interface better. Whether KDE or Gnome, both have in my opinion, great weaknesses in design and usability.