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Will Novell's Desktop Linux Catch On?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'll-drink-to-that dept.

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."

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  1. Displacing MS is difficult by H4x0r+Jim+Duggan · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the FOSS Means Business event, it was suggested that we get Microsoft to take part and make a big controversial event (since Perens and Stallman would be the other keynoters).

    We decided against because MS have it too easy. They don't have to prove their offering is better, they just have to raise enough FUD so that transitions to free software are delayed for one more year. Just like last year, and probably like next year. So we decided against, and instead of controversy we'll concentrate on showing the business value of free software, and why it is sustainable.

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  2. Re:Unlikely. by Professor_UNIX · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think that if any distribution had the right to claim being "Linux" it'd be Red Hat. I don't know if it still holds true, but they used to be the most popular distribution by far and thus, when someone made a commercial package that's what they (still) target. If it runs without any changes to your system on another distribution that's fine, but vendors will often only support Red Hat (and these days just specific versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux). Our RSA Authentication Manager for instance is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3 (not 4, not WS, but ES 3 ONLY. Their setup scripts check for this).

  3. Re:Linux guys don't like to hear this, but ... by miffo.swe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Pretty good? Have you really administrated XP anytime in a larger enviroment? Its a big ugly PITA and demands crazy amounts of work to stay awake. Easy to use is the last thing i would accuse it of. I battle furious users all day long thats as lost now as they was the first time XP came out.

    OTOH they really seem to like the new Linux Terminal Server installation. Why? It just damn works and arent in any way harder to use than Windows.

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