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:Nuxified: How Microsoft is Losing to GNU/Linux
Nuxified: How Microsoft is Losing to GNU/Linux
Sep 3, 2006, 00 :00 UTC (12 Talkback[s]) (14032 reads)

(Other stories by Danijel Orsolic)

"If 'a year of GNU/Linux on the desktop' is defined as a year when GNU/Linux has finally started its steady encroachment to the desktop then 2006 is the year. A lot of users have started using GNU/Linux on their desktops long before, but it is 2006 which marked the two probably biggest GNU/Linux desktop releases to date, Ubuntu Dapper and Novell SuSE 10. It is 2006 which marks the biggest opportunity for GNU/Linux to steal the desktop market share from Windows due to the bad reputation behind the pending Windows Vista release. And the eyes and focus of both the GNU/Linux community and major GNU/Linux corporations such as Novell are fixed on that opportunity. Novell marketing is true: 'Your Linux is ready...'"

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
MS does not make software for the deskto ...   Maybe   
Wam
Sep 3, 2006, 05:02:39
 
The site isn't called "Tuxified", bu ...   It's not   
libervisco
Sep 3, 2006, 07:32:14
 
> The site isn't called "Tuxified",  ...   Re: It's not   
Brian Proffitt
Sep 3, 2006, 11:37:01
 
Can't a company just pick a distro a ...   Re: Maybe   
Tim
Sep 3, 2006, 14:18:17
 
I still don't see it. Linux Desktop  ...   Still don't see it   
phil
Sep 5, 2006, 01:07:46
 
Install XGL/Compiz on SLED 10, scroll th ...   Appeal to Win users   
Stomfi
Sep 5, 2006, 03:35:52
 
> I still don't see it. Linux Deskto ...   Re: Still don't see it   
DDahl
Sep 5, 2006, 07:43:52
 
I no longer expect Linux to win the desk ...   Re: still don't see it   
Jose
Sep 5, 2006, 09:31:40
 
>>I no longer expect Linux to win the de ...   Re: Re: still don't see it   
apache
Sep 7, 2006, 14:37:21
 
> Linux will always be crippled due to t ...   Re: Re: Re: still don't see it   
DDahl
Sep 7, 2006, 19:23:39
 
Linux will always be crippled due to the ...   Re: Re: Re: Re: still don't see it   
apache
Sep 8, 2006, 14:35:42
 
Tried to send a response yesterday, but  ...   Re: (5) still don't see it   
DDahl
Sep 10, 2006, 06:06:33
 
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