2008: Year of the Linux Desktop | Linux Today

2008: Year of the Linux Desktop

Written By
MH
Matt Hartley
Feb 7, 2008

[ Thanks to Matt D. for
this link. ]

“Are we doing enough to attract new users from the IT community?
The results are right here, many of the IT pros do not see Vista as
an option any longer, and I personally see a fantastic opportunity
for various Linux distros to make a name for themselves going
forward. Here’s a solid opportunity to take some thunder away from
Ubuntu and give a leg up to otherwise lesser known distros. All the
development teams of these distros need to do is provide helpful
security tools for IT pros and then work at getting the word out of
their existence.

“Security-Based Distros Already Exist? Sure they do, yet most
people have no idea what they are or where to find them. Even
worse, there is a high likelihood that most of those security types
in the IT community will shun using such options based on some
haphazard belief that they are not as good as proprietary
options…”

Complete
Story

MH

Matt Hartley

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