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Exclusive: Linux On The Desktop After All?
News Choosing his words carefully, Hohndel explained that while Linux on the desktop is viable, there remains work to be done before the dream of mass market acceptance is a reality. And while your grandparents continue grappling with Windows, Hohndel...
[March 7, 2000, 14:21]
Linux On The Desktop Slow To Take Off
News This isn't the first time Corel has targeted the Linux desktop, as the Canadian computing giant has been offering its WordPerfect application on the open-source platform for nearly a year. Leading the Linux desktop charge is Corel Corp.which is...
[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. With OpenOffice and StarOffice there are few reasons for laggards to remain on the proprietary side. I have used a very stable distribution for more than a year now.
[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. Dell stopped offering Red Hat Linux on its desktop and notebook PCs last...
[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. I have looked into my crystal ball of the bl**^Wextremely obvious, and predict...
[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]
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]
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! Untill then pepole will use MS because they have more comrcial programs to choose from and and look and fill of MS is way better then the KDE.
[August 20, 2004, 18:14]
KDE 3.3 Linux Desktop Closes In On Windows
Talkback Desktop inexplicably linked to Internet Browser A browser that lets programs install from the Internet without my knowledge or consent Ability to run programs out of the Internet Temporary Files cache
[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 Windows doesn't come with Outlook by the way. Exactly. KDE comes with way more things than windows.
[August 18, 2004, 11:24]
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]
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. So, Linux advocates, continue working on it, follow the HIG...
[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]
KDE 3.3 Linux Desktop Closes In On Windows
Talkback I've come to realize that whether Linux creates an even better desktop (already is IMO) than microshaft, we will not be seeing any real change in the percentage of desktop usage until the big players in 3rd party win software start writing for...
[September 19, 2004, 4:55]
What Happend To The Linux Desktop?
Talkback So looks like from this piece that Linux is going to make some serious inroads into mobile handsets - but it's still slow going for the open source OS when it comes to the desktop. But then I guess people haven't been conditioned to one proprietary...
[September 26, 2007, 23:59]
