Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 9th Nov 2004 20:49 UTC
Linux "Desktop Linux is almost soup. We only have a few items left on the short list. Will we do it? If history is an indicator, the answer is yes." Read this article at LXer. Read more for a short list of my personal needs before I could say "yes, I can switch to Linux or FreeBSD full time".
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by AdamW on Tue 9th Nov 2004 22:33 UTC

Having read the article, the only thing I can say is that if what we need for Linux to succeed in business is binary driver loaders, peer-to-peer networking and some kind of Unified Library Standard (hint to author - recompiling for different distributions does *not* involve changing the source itself in any way, and in any case your vendor does it for you), I hope to God no distro I use ever goes after the business desktop...