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Linux on the Desktop
webmaven writes "Mitch Kapor's Open Source Application Foundation just released a 34 page report on the Desktop Linux market, written by Bart Decrem, who has discussed desktop Linux previously. The OSAF is working on Chandler, which the press have generally described as an 'Outlook Killer', but it's really intended to be in a completely new application category, more similar to Lotus Agenda in some ways than what currently consider a PIM (email + contacts + appointments). The report goes into some detail about the current state of desktop Linux, trends, and various limiting factors, and concludes that while a revolution is not immediately in the wings, a trend can definitely already be discerned, and they expect adoption of desktop Linux to increase over the next few years, and identifies leverage points to accelerate the process."
You call 5dwm *BETTER* than gnome or kde ?
you have serious problems.
I would say it's a good thing...God forbid that Mozilla act as porrly as IE...
like I've ever paid for any verion of windows I've ever had. Just as free as linux to me.
So you're a criminal? I used to be one, too, but free software changed all that. The people who illegally copy Microsoft software are just helping Microsoft dominate the PC market (though paying for it is much worse, I'll give you that). The more Windows PC's out there, the more people depend on those Windows PC's, the harder it is for anything else to have a chance.
--Drunk as in Beer