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SearchOpenSource: Linux Desktop Adoption Barriers: Open Source Apps Development, Integration

[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
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Recently the Freespire Linux-based operating system was
announced, and SuSE Linux Desktop–also known as SLED 10–was
released. Which event do you think will have the biggest impact the
Linux desktop?

Jono Bacon: Recent developments on the Linux
desktop front are constantly pushing Linux in front of people, and
it becomes an ever-more compelling choice. Recent releases, most
notably Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and SLED, work right out of the box for
most people and provide a pretty complete software stack. People
just don’t want to fight with the operating system, and today Linux
is a particularly fluid system…”


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