Linux Journal: Linux in Government: Optimizing Desktop Performance, Part II

“As we discussed in last week’s article, for most of its
existence, people have distributed Linux as a workstation or a
server rather than as a desktop. The default workstation that
evolved has existed mostly for use by developers. So, when you
install a Linux distribution with a graphical interface, it
generally looks like what a developer might want. In addition, it
performs similar to how many UNIX workstations work, which can seem
slow.

“In this article, we continue to look at the Linux desktop in a
different light. Here, we think of it as a computer system with a
fast interface that we can optimize for the knowledge worker and
consumer…”

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