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:Support and pre-installed by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-13 03:09 · Score: 1, Troll

LOL. Laughing my ass off.

Linux is nowhere near being ready for mass market desktops. First it needs a couple of revs of KDE or Gnome, it needs apps, and for my money a version of or replacement for KDevelop that doesn't suck.

I have to use a Linux desktop and I absolutely hate it ... and in other ways I think Linux is a great idea and I am sympathetic to the aims of the movement. Until Linux can win people like me over, it has zero chance with people less computer literate and with more work to do.