” At LinuxWorld Canada 2006, I sat down with Ross Chevalier,
Chief Technology Officer of Novell Canada, Ltd, who wanted to talk
about why 2006 is finally the year of Linux on the desktop. Or,
more precisely, ‘The Year of Adoption for an Enterprise Linux
Desktop.’ Our discussion mostly centered how it was the many
desktop advances Novell managed for the release of SuSE 10.1 that
will bring this year about. Some of these are related to the Better
Desktop Initiative, a project Novell started in late 2005. Others
are related to various technologies Novell decided to integrate
into their latest release.“In October 2005, Novell announced the Better Desktop
Initiative, whose goal is to obtain and share data regarding
desktop ‘usability.’ Usability is, according to the Usability
Professionals’ Association ‘the degree to which
something–software, hardware, or anything else–is easy to use and
a good fit for the people who use it.’ Essentially, it is a measure
of how easy the item is to use and how efficiently it allows people
to get things done…”