eChannelLine: Linux on the Desktop: The Final Frontier

"Linux, the open source operating system created 10 years ago by Linus Torvalds, is finally making its way into the corporate mainstream. That goal will only be reached, says a major player in the Linux community, when Linux finally comes to the user's desktop.

"'It makes absolute sense that the desktop is the goal of every Linux developer,' Chris Schl&aum;ger, vice president, research and development, at SuSe Linux AG, told eChannelLine at Novell Brainshare 2004. 'After all, every Linux developer has a desktop. And remember that the reason Linus Torvalds created Linux was to have an operating system for his personal computer...'"

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