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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RE[4]: Perhaps in the enterprise, but...
by jbauer on Wed 6th Aug 2008 22:41
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The point is even WITH Microsoft releasing a dud like Vista, its really hard for an operating like Linux, with plenty of technical merits, to make any inroads.
Or maybe Vista has been badmouth to death but it's actually a reasonably good OS, while Linux on the desktop still leaves a lot to be desired.
RE[5]: Perhaps in the enterprise, but...
by ichi on Wed 6th Aug 2008 23:07
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RE[5]: Perhaps in the enterprise, but... - specifics?
by jabbotts on Thu 7th Aug 2008 16:15
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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.)
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Yeah, I agree completely, thats what I'd like to see too. The point is, thanks to Microsoft's monopoly and business practices, thats NOT whats happening currently. I don't really think you can argue that Window's (Vista especially, but even XP) 'design & concepts' warrant the success (measured in install base) that it sees.
The point is even WITH Microsoft releasing a dud like Vista, its really hard for an operating like Linux, with plenty of technical merits, to make any inroads. This is thanks to the huge momentum Windows has, and Microsoft leverages at every chance they get to keep users unfairly locked in.