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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2005-12-02
"If adobe made a linux version of photoshop I think lots of distros would try to make it to run on their distro. one version with a specified set of ''needs'' is all it takes. (?)"
Exactly. No different then requiring a certain version of Windows, you can just require minimum versions of libraries, etc. I know it can be done, as the company I am the Sysadmin for develops software that is cross-platform.