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OSDL's Review of Desktop Linux In 2006

Posted by kdawson on from the it's-a-wrap dept.

derrida writes "The OSDL's Desktop Linux Working Group has published its first year-end report on the state of the overall desktop Linux ecosystem. The report provides insight into the year's key accomplishments in functionality, standards, applications, distributions, market penetration, and more. Of great interest is the Market Growth part. Quoting from there: 'Most observers believe that much of the growth will take place outside of the United States. "It will be in the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) countries," said Gerry Riveros, Red Hat, "because of the price and because they aren't locked in yet."'"

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  1. So not global domination by Timesprout · · Score: -1, Troll

    What a realistic surprise!

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  2. Re:Still a number of years, being realistic here by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Troll

    avg(joe) won't swap untill 2 things happen. flash runs as well on linux as it does on windows, and games run.

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  3. fucking gnome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just upgraded from FC5 to FC6 and gnome was the default desktop environment, at least from the few buttons I clicked during the installation. I've discovered gnome doesn't have a decent CD burning program... there's one in nautilus but it's about as basic as burning gets, and it doesn't burn on-the-fly... it creates a gigantic image of what's being burned first.. then burns from that image.. WTF? I don't have the diskspace for that.. and it takes twice as long more-or-less.

    I installed K3B (KDE cd burning utility) which is just perfect, very flexible and it's pretty easy to use... It does everything Nero does plus probably a few more things... too bad it looks ugly as sin.

    If gnome can't even provide a nice cd burning utility which everybody uses these days, I don't know what good the future can bring to that environment... Seems like gnome development has shifted towards "corporate applications" and "groupware" junk... I'm tempted to move to KDE entirely even if it looks like shit.

  4. Re:It's broken again. Fix it with free software. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
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