Desktop Linux - still about freedom

December 10, 2007 | 3 Comments

Hi freedom lovers everywhere.
The 2007 Desktop Linux Survey results are out and freedom still tops the list for those that are deploying Linux desktops. You have to do a little digging in the results to uncover this salient fact, but when asked about deploying one or more of the pre-installed Linux desktop/client products, […]

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Drivers. Which drivers?

October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

For years, the OSDL and Linux Foundation workgroups have stated that driver support for Linux is one of the top issues for Linux deployments. The 2007 Desktop Linux Survey brings out the same issue. Check out the responses to the following questions:
How important are the following potential issues to your organization’s decision to […]

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Goodbye

October 19, 2007 | 1 Comment

Sadly, I am announcing that today is my last day with the Linux Foundation. The last six years have been a wild ride with OSDL, the merger, and the Linux Foundation. I have enjoyed the opportunity of managing the finest engineering group in the world and was able to work with all four […]

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Announcing the 2007 Linux Desktop/Client Survey

October 16, 2007 | 2 Comments

Join Us in the Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey
Have your say on what desktop Linux really needs! Please Join us in the Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey, at:
www.linux-foundation.org/en/2007ClientSurvey
The survey will take only few minutes of your time, and your feedback is essential in helping us to focus our development efforts and accelerate the global adoption […]

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NYT - Next Leap for Linux

October 4, 2007 | 2 Comments

This morning, the New York Times ran an article by Larry Magid called “Next Leap For Linux.”
After using the operating system for writing, Web surfing, graphic editing, movie watching and a few other tasks, it is easy to conclude that Linux can be an alternative to the major operating systems. But since common tasks like […]

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Growing Desktop Market Share

September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Gerrit Huizenga wrote in his blog last week about “Growing Desktop Market Share“.
My radical answer to this problem, which might also solve some of the desktop adoption issues: Start with a single, common distro as the core for those hundreds of other distros. Something like Fedora or Ubuntu, which are already pretty common. […]

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Piling on - Office and collaboration

September 18, 2007 | 1 Comment

A series of announcements recently almost make it sound like the industry is “piling on” when it comes to office and collaboration products.
“In the retail channel, sales to date this year show Office having a 96 percent dollar share and 98 percent dollar share in the commercial market.” It’s exactly that massive […]

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OOXML - Comment resolution in an shipping product?

September 17, 2007 | 1 Comment

The news has widely reported that the fast-track vote for the acceptance of OOXML as an ISO standard has failed. So what is the next step? According to the complex ISO rules, there is going to be a comment resolution meeting in February, 2008 where all the standards bodies with skin in the […]

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Building Tools Around One Open Document Format

September 10, 2007 | 1 Comment

Earlier today, IBM announced that they are stepping up their involvement in the openoffice.org community. IBM joining OpenOffice isn’t about IBM helping to clone MS-Office in an open source project. It’s more about throwing technical resources into the community as it currently stands in an effort to broaden public knowledge and consumption of […]

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ATI - opening up to Linux?

September 5, 2007 | 2 Comments

During the state of the Linux round-table discussion on the first day of the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, James Bottomley (Linux kernel developer) had asked the panelists what are the top two things each panelist would like from the Linux community. Among the panelists was Google’s Chris DiBona, who is the open-source program manager at […]

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