
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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I'd be curiousto read your list of points where an OS based on Linux leaves a lot to be desired.
Are we talking preinstalled on hardware or installed by the home user. General computing tasks or specialty needs like Tivo and video gaming?
I don't know that Vista deserves all the negative publicity it recieves though there is justification for some of it. At the same time, I think OS based on Linux are rarely given honest consideration they deserve; especially with the ongoing "year of the Linux Desktop" crap that people keep drudging up.
(There is no year of the Linux desktop, it already works perfectly well as a desktop or server system depending on the OS distribution.)