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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]
Linux on the desktop slow to take off
News Leading the Linux desktop charge is Corel Corp.which is striving to release its NetWinder Linux Computer sometime next month. The machine, which will be priced between $729 and $1179, will come bundled with the Linux operating system and KDE GUI...
[December 31, 1998, 9:23]
The Year Ahead: Will we see Linux on the desktop?
News Another year has gone by -- an eternity in software-development terms -- and it's time once again for PC users to ask themselves: is Linux ready for the desktop? And where it comes to breaking into the Microsoft-controlled desktop market, good...
[December 30, 2001, 6:31]
What else would you offer for the next wave of desktop computing on Linux?
Member Review Desktop Linux is ready for prime time. I have used a very stable distribution for more than a year now. With OpenOffice and StarOffice there are few reasons for laggards to remain on the proprietary side.
[November 13, 2003, 10:56]
HP to support Mandrake Linux on the desktop
News The agreement, announced on Tuesday ahead of the LinuxWorld Expo, will see HP build and promote Mandrake Linux-based desktop PCs for European and North American businesses. The HP deal aims to address some of the problems that have prevented...
[January 30, 2002, 17:04]
Linux worm on the loose
Talkback In fact, I'm not sure that any desktop Linux user would be running these packages. My Linux boxes are safe. But then, I'm not running *any* of the three flawed packages. And they would need to be running all three buggy packages to be vulnerable to...
[November 8, 2005, 21:10]
2004: The year of desktop Linux?
Talkback As an ordinary user who loves to experiment with trying to use Linux at home, I find that I can use it for practically everything I do on my PC except use it for voice and video chat using IM's like Yahoo.
[December 24, 2003, 17:00]
Pioneering desktop Linux project put on ice
Talkback It would be interesting to see if the Great Philanthropist has stopped off in Olso recently for a 'quiet chat'?
[September 6, 2006, 13:29]
KDE 3.3 Linux desktop closes in on Windows
Talkback The only problem is - why they are trying to be like MS in the first place! I think that they should do things differnetly. Untill then pepole will use MS because they have more comrcial programs to choose from and and look and fill of MS is way...
[August 20, 2004, 18:14]
KDE 3.3 Linux desktop closes in on Windows
Talkback Desktop inexplicably linked to Internet Browser I, for one, am waiting for a couple of features from KDE: A browser that lets programs install from the Internet without my knowledge or consent Buffer Overflow via open TCP/IP ports
[August 18, 2004, 19:41]
KDE 3.3 Linux desktop closes in on Windows
Talkback KDE is already a more capable desktop environment and easier to use, but it targets Linux users, not Windows (or, more properly, Microsoft Explorer) users. Kontact is not new with KDE 3.3 and the next version of KDE will be 4.0, not 3.4.
[August 18, 2004, 13:52]
KDE 3.3 Linux desktop closes in on Windows
Talkback Exactly. KDE comes with way more things than windows. Windows doesn't come with Outlook by the way.
[August 18, 2004, 11:24]
Microsoft on warding off the Linux threat
Talkback Companies selling preinstalled Desktop Linux.http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/23168/
[October 4, 2006, 14:59]
Linux hack attacks on the rise
News Hackers are increasingly targeting Web servers based on the Linux operating system, while the number of successful attacks on Windows systems decreases, according to a new report from UK system integrator Mi2g.
[July 15, 2002, 16:24]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 1
Blog Comment But it does puzzle me that different flavours of Linux based on the same basic underpinnings experience different hardware issues. Apart from these issues, and mixed feelings about the Desktop, it runs just like any other Ubuntu installation.
[January 29, 2009, 12:47]
2004: The year of desktop Linux?
Talkback Many of you want it that way, hard, but then, do not complaint when people do not embrace your Linux), and hopefully in a few years we will have more competition in the desktop market. Most Linux advocates seem to see the boogeyman behind every...
[January 1, 2004, 18:41]
Linux on desktop will be 'cheaper and more secure', claim vendors
Talkback Linux allows things like sharing a single machine for many light users, virtualising servers, breaking the one machine-one application NT model. Linux comes with technologies unheard off in the Windows world : USB memory key booting (with encrypted...
[October 11, 2004, 13:15]
Linux 'putting more bobbies on the beat'
News Dick said desktop Linux is currently also being evaluated but is still at an "early stage". A Scottish police force is extending its commitment to open-source software by developing a Linux-based system for ensuring it complies with the impending...
[November 5, 2004, 16:13]
LinuxWorld: Corel takes Linux to the desktop
News While it will certainly not be abandoning the Windows platform, Corel is, besides giving its applications broad Linux support, releasing its own binary desktop version of Linux. Cowpland acknowledged that the Linux desktop--at least so far--"has...
[March 3, 1999, 9:58]
Cleaning Up the Linux Desktop Audio Mess
White Papers Desktop audio on Linux is a mess. There are just too many competing, incompatible sound systems around. Most current audio applications have to support every sound system in parallel and thus ship with sound abstraction layers with a more or less...
[June 12, 2008, 1:01]
