Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Nov 2006 11:21 UTC, submitted by Jonathan Coachman
Linux "Lately, I've found myself troubled with the changes taking place with Xandros. As many of you probably know by now, Xandros has gone through a reorganization that meant that they had to layoff roughly five employees. What's even more disturbing is that they are looking at letting go of their support for the desktop market and focusing on the server realm instead. Granted they'll still support their open circulation desktop to some extent, but the fact remains that I'm seeing a possible trend brewing within the Linux Desktop market that has me a little shaken up."
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Move everything to servers
by jimcooncat on Wed 8th Nov 2006 15:35 UTC
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2006-07-24

"... I'm seeing a possible trend brewing within the Linux Desktop market that has me a little shaken up."

* What market?

* There's always Debian.

* Why do you think Ubuntu/Canonical would have the same problems as Xandros? Does Xandros have the hype, the community, the $10M foundation Ubuntu has?

* There's always BSD.

Edited 2006-11-08 15:36

RE: Move everything to servers
by garymax on Wed 8th Nov 2006 20:31 in reply to "Move everything to servers"
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2006-01-23

"* There's always BSD."

The BSDs have nowhere near the hardware/driver support that Linux has. Personally, I believe that the BSDs will always be trailing behind Linux...

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