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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."

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  1. No mention of SCO... by rf0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well actually there is in the article but its under Horoscopes so prehaps thats a pointer to a bright future. Actually what star sign is Linux?

    Rus

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  2. ...and Sun?.... by james_in_denver · · Score: 0, Troll

    Didn't Sun just get assimilated by M$?....

  3. Just as soon as Linux works with my sound card. by JavaLord · · Score: 2, Troll

    I kid you not, I've installed 3 different flavors of linux on 6 different computers at home with 6 different soundcards for the past 7 years. Linux has NEVER worked with any of my sound cards. The latest attempt was knoppix, with a sound blaster audigy. Anyone ever have any luck with it?

    Until the linux desktop has the ease of use windows, or OSX when things go wrong I don't think it will be ready for primetime on the desktop. I wish it was, because neither of the other two OS's are that appealing to me. And while more games are coming out for linux, there still isn't any counterstrike on linux. I've never read about anyone getting it to work correctly with WINE either.