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2004: Year of the Penguin?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we've-heard-that-before dept.

houseofmore writes "The Toronto star suggests that things are looking good for the Linux desktop this year as more heavy weight commercial vendors get behind it, including HP, Novell, IBM, Sun and... Walmart. It also mentions Red Hat's plan to offer a new corporate desktop edition of their enterprise desktop sometime this year. The article states that more and more companies are considering (and) switching to Linux for their desktop due to expensive Windows licensing fees and high-profile security vulnerabilities."

2 of 427 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Just as soon as Linux works with my sound card. by TimmyJoeB · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    I think this is flame bait or something. I mean this sounds impossible. I have never had a Linux Distro not pick up a sound card, except for Gentoo which is for system admins. I have used Mandrake, SuSE and Red hat.

  2. Re:Every Year by bonch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What progress was made this year? A new version of KDE that added some sidebar buttons and a password storer--oh, and some extremely badly done text shadows for icon labels.

    Then we have Gnome--a new file selector dialog and, again, a password storer.

    Meanwhile, it's still the same old thing--emulating a desktop on top of old X technology, instead of being a real desktop (binary installation/uninstallation APIs, anyone? No more taskbar/start menu/integrated net and file browser ripped off from Windows 98, anyone? No conflicting, inconsistent toolkits, anyone? I could go on).