Linux’s Best (and Worst) Year Ever
“Is it possible to have both your best year ever and your worst
year ever in the same 365 days? It is if you’re Linux and open
source.“The bad news can be summarized in one company’s name: SCO. What
started in March as a contract dispute with IBM quickly became an
assault against Linux, then against the GPL that underlies Linux’s
intellectual property, and more recently against any big business
that uses Linux…”
2004 Won’t Be the Year of the Linux Desktop
“I use a Linux desktop every day. Specifically, I run SuSE Linux
Professional 9.0 with KDE 3.1.4. On top of that, I use Mozilla 1.5
for my Web browsing, OpenOffice 1.1 for my word processing and
spreadsheets, and Gaim 0.74 for my instant messaging needs. For
those times I need a Windows program, usually PhotoShop and
Quicken, I use NeTraverse’s Win4Lin to run them on a Windows 98SE
virtual machine.“For me, it works great. But I know Linux like the back of my
hand. So do most people who use Linux desktops today. For most
corporate knowledge workers, though, the Linux desktop still isn’t
good enough…”