Linked by David Adams on Wed 6th Aug 2008 15:32 UTC
After 10 years of supporting Linux, IBM continues to challenge Microsoft on multiple fronts and aims to push Linux even further into the enterprise. While IBM has competed and partnered with Microsoft over the last two decades, the Microsoft-free PC effort is perhaps its most direct assault yet. "The idea of Microsoft-free personal computing has been in the air for a while," Inna Kuznetsova, director of Linux at IBM, told InternetNews.com. "We're just partnering with Linux distribution vendors and hardware vendors to make it happen."
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unfortunately, I don't see a Microsoft-free home PC coming out of Linux for quite a while yet. When I say "home pc," I mean a pc that average joe can use without having to tweak and hack it. Currently, Linux just doesn't fit this bill and, barring some major redesign and collaboration on various parts of the system, I doubt it ever will. And, before all you Linux zealots go modding me down for daring to speak such blasphemy, I do believe Linux succeeds very well at a lot of tasks. It makes a very good server os and, with the right configuration, a nice enterprise desktop and development workstation. Not to mention it can be a very lean embedded system. It just doesn't fit the home desktop pc world yet, and I don't see it going that way any time soon no matter how hard various distros like SuSE and Ubuntu try to push it.