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Desktop Linux Wins Powerful Supporters
News Red Hat, IBM and an open-source consortium are each beginning serious work to advance Linux for use on desktop computers. At the Desktop Linux Conference in Boston, Red Hat and IBM detailed their desktop Linux plans.
[November 12, 2003, 7:45]
Desktop Linux Backer Gets New Chief
News Xandros, inheritor of the software from Corel's ill-fated foray into the desktop Linux market, has named a new chief executive and plans to release a new version of its product in late November. Xandros sells a version of Linux geared for the...
[October 30, 2003, 9:45]
Linux Desktop: Closer Than You Think
News Mention Linux as an operating system for desktop computers and you'd likely trigger snickering. I think Linux on the desktop is a viable option," said game developer Emmett Plant, listing word processing and spreadsheets as the essential products.
[August 13, 1999, 9:17]
Linux Desktop
Talkback "If Linux was going to make a move on the business desktop market, it would have happened years ago. It is only recently that Linux has achieved the ease of installation and use that enables it to become a viable alternative to Microsoft's offering.
[November 14, 2007, 11:07]
Desktop Linux 'will Force Microsoft To Innovate'
News As things stand, creativity has gone, and that's one reason that Linux on the desktop makes sense. One of the key questions being addressed at the conference is the extent to which Linux can dominate the desktop PC market, and here at least one...
[April 20, 2004, 16:55]
Desktop Linux: Novell Making Slow Progress
News Networking and Linux specialist Novell's company-wide rollout of Linux on the desktop is falling behind schedule. According to Novell, few customers would be better off replacing every desktop with Linux.
[September 29, 2004, 18:40]
Desktop Linux Wins Plaudits For Stability
News A company that migrated from Microsoft Windows to Linux on the desktop has praised the open source operating system's stability. Customers that are running Linux on the desktop are amazed that it doesn't constantly crash," said Schmitzek.
[March 10, 2005, 16:50]
Desktop Linux Group Readies Public Agenda
News An industry group formed early this year to promote the GNU/Linux operating system for desktop computers is set to finalise its corporate structure next month, and is planning its first conference for this autumn.
[July 24, 2003, 13:19]
Desktop Linux Wins Plaudits For Stability
Talkback Desktop Linux will never succeed until someone upgrades the Amateur Hour solitaire games, I'm sorry. Considering the high % of time spent on desktop systems running this app, I'd suggest it's a show-stopper.p
[March 19, 2005, 0:26]
Linux Desktop Hacks: View Word And PDF Files From Within Mutt
White Papers That's why a lot of hard-core Linux users still use Mutt in spite of the myriad GUI-based email clients. But Mutt users aren't always using a graphical desktop, so it's handy to be able to view these documents as text, right inside the message itself.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Desktop Linux 'like Teenage Sex'
Talkback Highlight 'Novell Linux Desktop'. Nobody is using a Linux Desktop. Nobody is using a Linux Desktop. Highlight 'Desktop'. http://www.novell.com/success/ Click the 'advanced search' button. Click the 'search' button.
[November 1, 2005, 20:35]
Linux Desktop: Distributions
White Papers Linux is really just the core of an operating system, not particularly useful for the desktop by itself. Because there is no single point of control exerted on the entire OS, as Microsoft exerts on Windows and Apple on Mac OS X, there is no...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Desktop Linux 'like Teenage Sex'
Talkback I don't understand the analogy.why is desktop linux "like teenage sex" Is it talked about too much and really isn't that exciting? Is it something most people are trying but no one knows about it? just wondering
[October 27, 2005, 16:19]
Desktop Linux For Small Business
Talkback http://www.webcenter.squarespace.com/linux-desktop-plus-search/ Linux is here in force for sure, distros like MEPIS and web applications are going to take users places where Microsoft could not take them, mostly for free too!
[December 26, 2005, 19:06]
Linux On Desktop Will Be 'cheaper And More Secure', Claim Vendors
News A senior IT executive at a major pharmaceutical company summed up the challenge for Linux at the ZDNet UK IT Priorities conference today when he asked one simple question: what are the benefits in migrating from Microsoft to Linux at the desktop?
[September 28, 2004, 16:25]
A Year Ago: LinuxWorld: Linux On Desktop Soon - Torvalds
News Linux may be primarily server-bound now, but it soon will be much easier to use on the desktop, and even in handhelds, says its inventor Speaking before the largest Linux gathering ever, Linus Torvalds predicted future versions of Linux will...
[March 3, 2000, 5:54]
Linux On Desktop Will Be 'cheaper And More Secure', Claim Vendors
Talkback A linux desktop if not setup correctly will be just as insecure as a windows desktop. If people shift over to linux viruses will start to appear then linux users will be stuck with little protection!
[September 28, 2004, 18:09]
LinuxWorld: Linux On Desktop Soon - Torvalds
News Speaking before the largest Linux gathering ever, Linus Torvalds predicted future versions of Linux will compete on both high-end systems and smaller devices - and become a major player on desktop computers.
[March 3, 1999, 9:41]
Linux 'missed Aussie Desktop Wave' - IDC
News Linux is already late in catching the desktop refresh wave in Australia, says analyst firm International Data Corporation. A ZDNet UK report said Linux vendors were hoping to take away market share from Microsoft's Windows in the desktop PC market...
[May 24, 2004, 10:05]
Exclusive: Linux On The Desktop After All?
News Linux is ready to fulfil the requirements of most desktop users, according to the chief technical officer of SuSE Linux and founder member of the XFree86 organisation, Dirk Hohndel. The comments follow widespread reports that Hohndel's boss, SuSE...
[March 7, 2000, 14:21]
