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Intel: Linux has 'no place' on desktop
News Barrett's comments, made during a visit to London on Wednesday, reflect a fundamental and deepening division in the Linux world: while Linux is seeing startling success in the server market, it has yet to make much headway when it comes to mass...
[June 21, 2001, 16:58]
Linux: The back door is open
News Rather, it's Linux, the Unix clone that has suddenly -- or so it seems -- become the programmer's choice to unseat Windows as the operating system of choice on servers and desktops. How could a piece of free software, like Linux, ever hope to turn...
[September 15, 1998, 10:30]
Linux club helps firms hide from Microsoft
Talkback Imagine if you were a company of 500 desktops, and you pay full price for XP($300/copy? I believe the idea is that when MS sees a company/govt looking to move from MS to Linux, MS comes in with some steeply discounted deal.
[February 11, 2004, 18:16]
Windows-friendly Xandros 4 launched
News Although several Linux desktops are bidding to replace Windows, they have only made small inroads. It also imports settings and data, including email, photos, desktops sound and music, from Windows XP and other versions, using Versora's Progression...
[June 23, 2006, 12:40]
Linux taken for a ride in the Old West
News It has been using Linux servers for five years and is considering a move to Linux desktops in the future. A:In the last five years we've made a lot of progress — we've moved all our file and print servers, approximately 90 percent of our Web server...
[February 20, 2006, 14:55]
Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" - It Just Keeps Getting Better
Blog That seems like a small thing when you are familiar with Linux desktops, and experienced users are likely to be customizing their desktop anyway, but I have heard many times from inexperienced users, and users switching to Linux from Windows, that...
[May 28, 2009, 8:19]
Linux lovers hit hard times as home users
News HP said it ships more than 100,000 Linux desktops per quarter worldwide and said it is doing better overseas, especially with small to medium-sized businesses. About 828.5 million desktops have shipped in the last 10 years, research firm IDC said.
[November 3, 2005, 17:20]
Linux must be slicker to grab desktop space
Talkback Usability features such as "virtural desktops", "rollup windows", "advanced window placement", "window pagers", "multiple X window sessions", "remote X window sessions", and the list goes on and on, are things the average Linux user enjoys, things...
[April 27, 2004, 2:54]
Linux on the desktop slow to take off
News Fortune 500 companies need their desktops to be highly functional, highly predictable, [and] highly supportable," says Ron McNab, executive vice president at Corel Computer, the hardware arm of Corel.
[December 31, 1998, 9:23]
Linux as a technology cost-saving strategy
News Linux is not a fit for every situation but it's certainly worth evaluating, especially when you have large numbers of PC desktops and servers in your company. Many companies are finding the cost advantages of using Linux to be too compelling to...
[March 11, 2004, 12:30]
Linux club helps firms hide from Microsoft
News Following its success in Newham, Microsoft launched an advertising campaign in which it claimed that Windows was cheaper than Linux -- an echo of a controversial piece of research from analyst firm Gartner, which claimed that migrating desktops...
[February 10, 2004, 16:30]
Linux poised to plug in USB 2
News Newer versions of Microsoft Windows, by far the most popular operating system for desktops and laptops, began supporting USB 2.0 earlier this year through the company's Windows Update service. The upcoming 2.4.19 version of the Linux kernel -- the...
[July 26, 2002, 12:42]
Linux everywhere: The Penguin goes mobile
News Its supporters say the benefits of open source software on PC servers and desktops carry over into the mobile device world: Linux is a robust OS that has a developer community of thousands constantly improving it.
[June 29, 2000, 14:07]
Linux set for Asian growth
News On desktops, Windows is even more dominant, with 90 percent of computers running it. The open-source Linux platform will surge ahead this year to chalk up the highest growth rate among server operating systems in Asia, says IT analysts IDC.
[March 5, 2003, 9:59]
OpenOffice makes government inroads
News The Department of Commerce has made a strategic decision to reduce government dependency on Microsoft, and is to replace most of its Microsoft Office desktops with OpenOffice, according to a report this week in the Israeli business daily Globes.
[December 18, 2003, 13:25]
LinuxWorld: Linux readies its desktop assault
News We also want to go to the desktops of people who are not experts in computers," de Icaza said. Gnome -- in conjunction with KDE, another interface project, and Wine, an emulator that lets people run Windows applications on Linux -- could boost the...
[March 4, 1999, 9:27]
Linux brings hope to Spain's poorest region
News The Ministry of Culture is part-way through a migration, having migrated around 60 percent of its 380 desktops, while the regional Ministry of Health will eventually run all medical applications on Linux servers and is migrating 14,000 PCs at...
[May 11, 2005, 13:30]
Study: Linux sales down, but not out
News The number of copies that sold for "client" computers such as desktops and workstations, however, increased nearly 50 percent over 2000, in particular in Asia and Latin America, Gillen said. Linux sales lost some ground to Windows last year, but...
[August 7, 2002, 8:08]
Linux servers 'attacked more often'
Talkback I'd guess that they measured fewer windows "servers", and have conveniently defined all those compromized windows desktops as "non-servers".this sort of result is simply blatantly false on its face.look around you: how many windows boxes do you...
[February 22, 2004, 0:56]
Novell: Linux turns up the heat on Microsoft
News At the end of August, Microsoft announced a new roadmap for Longhorn to enable the company to have a test version of the software next year and a final release for desktops and notebooks by 2006. According to Messman, Microsoft is under immense...
[September 14, 2004, 13:40]
