“APC looks beyond the myths, rates the major desktop OS
contenders and looks at which one suits your needs.”
“Is Linux really too hard to use? Is Mac OS dead outside
publishing? Does anybody care about BeOS? And is it worth waiting
for Windows 2000?”
“In the past few years some new challengers have emerged. Always
a stable, high-performance server platform, Linux has just begun to
be a useful desktop OS. Recent developments have taken it to the
point where you don’t have to be a Unix guru to use it. The latest
distributions from Caldera and Red Hat … for instance, make Linux
far easier to use — although it is not yet quite as simple to use
as Windows.”