http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry Just another linux-foundation.org weblog Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:50:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry/2007/12/10/desktop-linux-still-about-freedom/ 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 ... http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry/2007/10/25/drivers-which-drivers/ 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 ... http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry/2007/10/19/goodbye/ 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 ... http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry/2007/10/16/announcing-the-2007-linux-desktopclient-survey/ Linspire has announced the availability of Linspire 6.0, the company's first commercial release in over two years. Linspire is perhaps the most Windows-like of all the commercial desktop distributions. A release the magnitude of a Linspire 6.0 should have caused rejoicing in the streets. After all, ... http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry/2007/10/15/linspire-60-good-or-evil/ 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. ... http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry/2007/10/04/nyt-next-leap-for-linux/ 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 ... http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry/2007/09/28/asianux-30-is-registered-against-cgl-32/ 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, ... http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry/2007/09/24/growing-desktop-market-share/ 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." ... http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry/2007/09/18/piling-on-office-and-collaboration/ 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 ... http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry/2007/09/17/ooxml-comment-resolution-in-an-shipping-product/