Are We Finally Seeing the Year of the Linux Desktop? | Linux Today

Are We Finally Seeing the Year of the Linux Desktop?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 9, 2007

“This past month has seen a flurry activity from a number of
players in the Linux desktop space. Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu, Dell,
Lenovo and even Intel white box system builders are getting into
the act. Is the year of the Linux desktop finally upon us or is
this just another flare up generated by the Linuxworld conference
in San Francisco?

“More than a couple of significant things in desktop Linux have
happened in the past couple of weeks in the lead up to and during
the Linuxworld conference. Perhaps one of the most significant was
Red Hat’s announcement of its Global Desktop product for small
businesses and local government agencies…”

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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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