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(When) Will Linux Pass Apple On The Desktop?

Posted by timothy on from the my-little-3-percenters dept.

EisPick writes "A column posted today on Slate ponders projections that Linux PCs will pass Apple in desktop market share next year. Will Linux do to OS X what it already has done to Tru64, Irix, HP/UX, AIX and Solaris and emerge as the only viable competitor to Windows on the desktop?"

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  1. Re:The reverse I would think by Neural+Assassin · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "...I love my Linux desktop because *I*, not Steve J or Bill G, am in charge" ROTFLMAO!!!! You're dreaming. Torvalds and Stallman have the final word. As Linus himself is quoted as saying: "...my contract says that I have final word on the kernel, and the copyright remains with me personally" Wanna make some kernel changes...you MUST release them to the world. Real men use FreeBSD. Period.

  2. Re:The reverse I would think by sheldon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I'm referring to all the neat things you can do in something like KDE, that actually let you work better, not just have a prettier desktop.

    Well don't keep them all to yourself. Tell us about these wonderful innovations?

    Animated backgrounds? Themes? Dancing happy smiley faces?

    Linux is to the desktop what rice boys are to race cars.