Linux Distros That Could Take The Lead Soon | Linux Today

Linux Distros That Could Take The Lead Soon

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 26, 2008

“After more than 15 years of Linux development, the last couple
of years have seen an explosive spectrum of progress in conquering
the desktop. It is as if the world is suddenly waking up and
discovering Linux. Ubuntu has a place in the history books already
as the distro that pushed to make this happen, taking the old Linux
and wrapping it up into a user-friendly desktop system. On the
business front, Novell SuSE and Red Hat have traditionally
dominated.

“But open source is about free choice and fair competition, so
there’s never a time when the lead penguins can rest easy…”


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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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