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IBM and Its Thoughts on Desktop Linux
Knuckles writes: "According to c|net, IBM will give desktop Linux a thumbs up at the Desktop Linux Conference in Boston on Monday. Sam Docknevich of IBM's Global Services group will give a speech titled, "The Time is Now for Linux on the Desktop." It seems that IBM will not go for the multi-purpose desktop, though, but for machines performing narrowly defined functions (kiosks etc.). However, basic office workstation seem to be included in this definition, according to C|Net" And in a classic case of the right-hand not knowing what the left-hand is doing, Realistic_Dragon adds: "IBM was leading the words of Red Hat's CEO in comments to the UK government last year saying that '...open source was not ready for the desktop'.
Yeah, but everyone knows that Polish people can't install/run Windows properly.
"Do we like or hate IBM then?"
I don't know, but I know I hate you.
this is one of the most stereotypical and pointless comments yet constantly gets modded funny.
This is the kind of ridiculous reasoning one hears all the time from linux crazies.
Have you EVER tried to uninstall something in linux? Or do a simple upgrade? You don't think home users will/can use the XP FW - you think they can use IPChains? Are you just plain nuts?
The average home user cannot use linux. Mozilla is not up to the task, sorry. It doesn't even render most webpages properly (including such common ones as YAHOO FINANCE). Openoffice is slow and bloated, as well as difficult to use.
Linux is not ready for the home user. At least on Windows, when I uninstall a program, it uninstalls its libraries (for the most part).
Cemil.
So what, IBM said linux wasn't ready for the desktop - last year. That was a year ago! Linux has made quite a few strides on the desktop since then - and MS has dug themselves even deeper into their grave since then, as well. The time is now for linux on the desktop, if there is to be a time. There needs to be positive motion or someone else (Apple) will step in to try and take that market.
Just shut up.
What "strides" has Linux made in a year? How has MS dug themselves a grave? They're already got a free PDC demo of they're next OS not due out for another few years.
I've been hearing how Linux is "ready to take the desktop" since 1998! What, do you think Microsoft and Apple are just going to remain stagnant and not make any strides? Hell, SP2 for Windows XP is already going to include many backported features from Longhorn including IE's new pop-up blocking and possibly even the new download manager. Claim the rip-off of ideas all you want (Mozilla ripped it all off from Opera anyway), but it doesn't matter in the end.
Linux is not ready for the desktop. I doubt it will be except maybe in another three years. But right now, we're still doing the same damned things we did three years ago, but with prettier window managers. Meanwhile, I can't even cut and paste what I want!
"Sufferin' succotash."
Except for the fact that OS-X runs all of the MS office products, so the learning curve is much shallower. Linux requires learning completely new software on almost every front, even having to relearn which software suites are used for things.
I just wanna know, how do we all pan on migrating the dsktop to linux? We hear someone say the time for linux is now, but what do they mean? Are we going to break into people's houses, install linux, wax the companies that don't make linux drivers, and burn Redmound to the ground?
What is the first step on getting linux on the desktop? What is the second?
Should we get more hardeware to run?
should we get a more user friendly interface?
What is the process, how is to be implented, and by who?
When these questions are answered in a reasonable way, and the first few are out of the way, then linux will begin to take the desktop market. Untill the Redmound has a firm grip on the market. If we want this to happen, we have to make it, not let it.
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IBM will be exhibiting at the Southern California Linux Expo on November 22nd at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California. Other exhibitors include Real Networks, Novell, and Pogo Linux. Some of the speakers include Seth Nickell, Chris Dibona, Patrick Mochel and John Terpstra. Full and student tickets are still available for this event as well as free exhibition only passes using the FREE promotional code.
Desktop Linux would be running YOU!
Shut the hell up, dumbass. He never said he started his dad off with Pine. God, you're one fucking idiot. I just love when zealots like you, who have nothing better to do than find ways to bash anything not-linux, make dumb assumptions in public that a guy would introduce his father to Pine. Really, you don't deserve to live.
real geeks hate soap operas.