ONLamp: Making Desktop Linux Happen | Linux Today

ONLamp: Making Desktop Linux Happen

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 22, 2005

“One of my current areas of focus is making the Linux desktop a
viable option for enterprises. The question I’m trying to answer is
‘how do we help corporations adopt Linux as a desktop operating
system?’

“I could make the question ‘how do we make it easy for
corporations…’, but I don’t think that’s the right way to
approach the problem. It’ll never be easy to move a Fortune 500
company’s thousands of desktop users to a new operating system,
whether that means upgrading to a newer release of Windows XP or
migrating to Linux. What we need to do is make moving to Linux a
reachable goal…”

Complete
Story

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.

Linux Today Logo

LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.

Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2026 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.