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What Lies Ahead For Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the eye-to-the-future dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here's an interview with Stacey Quandt, a Linux and open source industry analyst. She explains why she feels Linux will overtake Windows as the number one operating system within the next three years." There's some interesting tidbits on what it takes to be an industry analyst as well, and some looking back to when most analysts were unaware of Linux.

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  1. What she really said by tverbeek · · Score: 5, Informative
    She explains why she feels Linux will overtake Windows as the number one operating system within the next three years.

    Nice out-of-context hyperbole. She was referring to shipments of new boxes in the server market. In terms of desktop market share, she says that mere parity would take "a long time", and she's looking forward to a modest 10% share (essentially changing from a "fringe" player to a commonly-supported niche player) as a significant milestone.

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  2. Re:What Lies Ahead for Linux... by Brandybuck · · Score: 5, Informative

    Windows supports almost every known video card out of the box

    Actually, Windows supports very little video hardware out of the box. The last three video cards I had required me to install the manufacturer provided drivers in order to get out of VGA mode.

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  3. Re:Nobody but Slashdotters care about that by dtfinch · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just to test that, today I plugged one of my digital cameras (Concord EasyToo) into my pc running Suse Linux 9.0 for the first time, having never used a camera with Linux ever before. It detected the camera immediately, and automatically placed a camera icon on my desktop for me to browse the photos.