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Story: Desktop Linux wins plaudits for stability
Posted by: Brendon (Thursday 10 March 2005, 9:26 PM)
And all of your business apps are going to run on Linux? Good for call centres, bad for businesses with legacy apps running on windows.
Also, many vendors are pushing Linux thin clients with expensive (and not open) hardware such as Sun Ray.
Having the source code doesn't mean a thing when you have a five year lock-in under the Linux flag...
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Story: Desktop Linux wins plaudits for stability
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Right. Because Windows applications run in Kernel... Anonymous -
And all of your business apps are going to run on... Brendon -
The apps don't run in Kernel space, but the G... Robert Myers -
Yup. They also use IO, scheduling etc. A... Anonymous -
"But since we're talking GUI, XWind... Philip Stephens
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"Having the source code doesn't mean a thing when... Trev
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Not surprising that he got good stability from Lin... Anonymous
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"Having the source code doesn't mean a thing when... Steve J
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I'm using a stripped-down, fully patched win2... The Mitch
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Desktop Linux will never succeed until s... Brian H
