OSDL To Start Pushing on Desktop Linux

Posted by Hemos on Thursday November 13, 2003 @02:31AM from the beyond-the-backroom dept.

Psyke writes "The Australian Financial Review is reporting that 'IBM, Red Hat and a consortium of computer makers backed by the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Intel will push to move the Linux operating system out of the back office from next year.' and 'Meanwhile, the OSDL, which has largely worked on improving Linux's ability to run large servers, said it would work on improving Linux's performance on ordinary desktop computers.'" The article itself is a little off- those companies are working *through* the OSDL of which they are members - along with a number of additional companies as well.

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Re:OEMs a must for linux by iaredam · 2003-11-13 02:55 · Score: 3, Informative

PC Club already sells computers with linux installed, I am not sure what distro's for sure but i know they ship computers and laptops with "Lindows" :(. I ended up talking to the manager of a local pc club store and he said he could install debian, gentoo, rh, or mdk on a new system for me. If they start advertising better other manufacturers might get the idea