I found it more than a little sad that someone in 2010 could still think that Linux is " still a non-starter on the desktop ." Please — wake up: We're all Linux desktop users now.
No matter what you're running on your desktop -- Windows 7, Snow Leopard, XP, whatever -- you use the Internet, right? And you use Google to search? You talk to your friends on Facebook, Twitter of some other social network , yes? Then congratulations — you're a Linux user. Thanks to the Web, desktop Linux is everywhere. The old desktop metaphor is dying. Every day that goes by the lines between what used to be a desktop, a server, and the network keep blurring. Don't think so? Answer me this: How much work could you get done without access to the Internet? Even if you work in a business that has Windows from one end to the other, once you go on the Internet to get to your Exchange server, guess what? Chances are almost certain that somewhere along your connection, you're running over a Linux-powered server, or your connection is being made by referring to a DNS server running Linux.
Full Story: The Linux desktop is already here - Computerworld (blog)
No matter what you're running on your desktop -- Windows 7, Snow Leopard, XP, whatever -- you use the Internet, right? And you use Google to search? You talk to your friends on Facebook, Twitter of some other social network , yes? Then congratulations — you're a Linux user. Thanks to the Web, desktop Linux is everywhere. The old desktop metaphor is dying. Every day that goes by the lines between what used to be a desktop, a server, and the network keep blurring. Don't think so? Answer me this: How much work could you get done without access to the Internet? Even if you work in a business that has Windows from one end to the other, once you go on the Internet to get to your Exchange server, guess what? Chances are almost certain that somewhere along your connection, you're running over a Linux-powered server, or your connection is being made by referring to a DNS server running Linux.
Full Story: The Linux desktop is already here - Computerworld (blog)
