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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Asianux 3.0 is registered against CGL 3.2

September 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Asianux has just completed the self-registration for Asianux 3.0 against CGL 3.2 and the results have been posted. Results are posted for both Asianux Server 3 for IA32 and Asianux Server 3 for X86_64.
The CGL v3.2 spec includes an 18-page overview document, along with seven PDF documents defining requirements for:

Availability — Applies to […]

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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 - vote “No, with comments”

August 29, 2007 | 13 Comments

The Linux Foundation, with the backing of the Desktop Architects community, is calling upon those ISO National Bodies that have not yet cast their votes to vote “No, with comments” on DIS29500 “Office Open XML” (OOXML). Those comments should reflect your best, neutral, technical judgment, based upon OOXML in its current form.

Official […]

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Virtualization for Mobile Linux?

June 21, 2007 | 1 Comment

Virtualization for mobile form factors? Most think that virtualization has value in server space and even in running multiple OSs on the desktop. Virtualization actually turns out to be a valuable architectural tool for mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets, etc. As more mobile devices allow users to download and run […]

Popularity: 66% [?]