Linked by David Adams on Fri 27th Jun 2008 04:46 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Erik Huggers, a Microsoft guy at the BBC, takes a look at Fedora 9 as his first Linux desktop and finds it surprisingly good.
"I am glad that I got a chance to test drive Fedora and as a result have come to believe in the potential of Linux as a mainstream operating system.
As Ashley said in this post last year, the BBC does a lot of work with open standards already - but in the future we plan to do more.
We want to make iPlayer work on all operating systems including open source ones like Fedora and I am confident we'll make good progress on this before the end of the year."
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2008-04-15
At least linux is being given more of a chance but;
"...and as a result have come to believe in the potential of linux as a mainstream operating system."
First off, what counts as a mainstream OS?
Second, i'm so sick of hearing "potential to be great..." "year of the linux desktop" etc etc etc.
People use linux as a desktop OS, i know more people who are using it and then sticking with it.
it's not that there is unlocked potential yet to be found in linux. It's just people who can't be bothered to use anything other than what they bought their pc with.
More marketing and OEM's are the only thing linux needs.
Edited 2008-06-27 05:31 UTC