Linux.com: Linux as a Content Creation Platform | Linux Today

Linux.com: Linux as a Content Creation Platform

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 12, 2000

“Linux has really come of age. It already serves millions of web
pages, hosts filesystems, and recently has started to migrate onto
desktop systems. However, my main interest for this adolescent OS
is one market that is currently out of it’s reach: the content
creation workstation….”

In order for Linux to really take over the content creation
market, it needs high quality tools to draw attention to it, and
draw users from other OS’s.
It needs more applications like
the Gimp, high quality applications to compete with their non-free
counterparts. These applications would prove that Linux can not
only c ompete with other content OS’s, but surpass them.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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