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Tonight Live: The OSDL Desktop Initiative>> on The
Linux Show!!
Tonight: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, February 24th, 2004 from Chicago IL
Tonight on www.thelinuxshow.com.
Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff
Gerhardt are bringing you a great show tonight ready to
go!!!!!!
Segment One- The News. We will cover
THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Shame on
Intel, Microsoft returns to its DARK SIDE, Wide Spread news on the
desktop, a clueless pundit or two…….. and way more.
Story Links
- The News This Weeks
Is Microsoft Paying To Influence UN Standards?–Slashdot
Thread- wxWindows is now
wxWidgets after MS threatens–wxWidgets - Linux
For The Desktop: It’s A Contender –Business Week - Deal boosts
Linux’s prospects outside PCsWind River and Red Hat team up
–Reuters - Intel
should be ashamed of itself over AMD 64, Torvalds says–By
Adamson Rust The Inquirer
Students stung as computer schools close–CNN/AP
Debunking Common GNU/Linux Myths–The Jem Report- MySQL AB to
Tweak Open-Source License–EWeek - Competencies…–By
Doc Linux Journal - The
Invisible Demo…–By Doc Linux Journal
- The Weekly SCO (ON A SLOW SCO WEEK)
- The
Evaporating Allure of Free Snow–By Bob
Pretenderle
- The
Segment Two- OSDL DESKTOP LINUX WORKING GROUP
INITIATIVE –
We will be joined tonight by Stacey Quandt.
Stacey is a principal analyst at OSDL. She is responsible for
covering key market trends important to IT vendors and corporate
end users of Linux. She is a principal speaker for the Lab at
industry conferences and trade shows and plays a leadership role in
developing Lab market research, technical publications and industry
opinion pieces. Prior to joining OSDL she was an industry analyst
at Forrester Research, where she created the firm’s Open Source
Research Competency. There she advised Fortune 1000 customers with
tactical and strategic advice on Linux and published research. A
popular speaker at industry conferences and events, she has
presented at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Oracle OpenWorld,
the National and Local eGovernment Programs, GigaWorld IT Forum,
IBM Roadshows, Sun Microsystems ISV Advisory Board, and many
others.
OSDL or the Open Source Development Lab, is the
present home to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. OSDL is
dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux. Founded
in 2000 and supported by a global consortium of Linux customers and
IT industry leaders, OSDL is a non-profit organization that
provides Linux expertise and computing and test facilities in the
United States and Japan available to developers around the
world.
In January OSDL launched a new Desktop Linux Working Group
initiative focused on greater use of Linux on desktops throughout
the enterprise. The initiative was created in response to OSDL
constituents from around the world, including the United States,
Europe, Japan and China. The shared goal is to create a forum where
a range of desktop usage models can be studied with recommendations
on improvements to encourage broader adoption of Linux. The charter
of the Desktop Linux Working Group is to work with the open source
community to identify a broad set of Linux desktop models, then
develop specifications and deliver reference implementations.
This working group is also supported by OSDL’s Linux User
Advisory Council, which is comprised of senior IT executives from
global 500 companies. The overall working group objectives have
been developed by an exploratory committee with representatives
from freedesktop.org, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, OSDL, Red Hat and Sun
Microsystems.
This working group has the interest and full support of OSDL
members. The use of Linux on the desktop is exploding around the
world, far faster than even we at TLS expected. According to market
research firm IDC, paid shipments of Linux rose to 2.8 percent of
desktop operating systems in 2002, up from 1.7 percent two years
earlier. In 2004, it is expected to surpass the total new product
shipments for the Mac OS.
So, tonight we explore the role of the new desktop initiative,
and we examine the future of Linux desktops.
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