Will Novell's Desktop Linux Catch On?

Laura writes "Novell says its newly released Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10(SLED) can replace Windows for the average office worker. But will enterprises embrace a widespread migration from Windows?" From the article: "The desktop market is a very mature market, and Microsoft has a very strong presence there, which makes it hard for customers to move off [...] However, Jeff Jaffe, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Novell, said at the SLED 10 launch Thursday he is fairly confident that if enterprises have a chance to kick the tires of the new desktop OS, mass migration from Windows is soon to follow."

Comments

Re:Unlikely.

[JonJ]

Bah. I'm sick of Ubuntufanboys touting their distro as end-all be-all for GNU/Linux, it has no hardware support that no other GNU/Linux distribution has. If Mark Shuttleworth had half a brain cell and wanted mass GNU/Linux adoption, he'd employ people writing device drivers on a large scale. We already have tons of newbie-friendly distros, but hardware support is still somewhat lacking. Don't these hackers get this? We don't need fifty different mainstream distros with different color schemes. Now we just have another distribution that's almost there.