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Tough love: Linux needs more haters - ZDNet
18 Jul 2008 at 5:15am
Tough love: Linux needs more hatersZDNet - 3 hours agoTechnically, KDE, like most Linux software, is excellent. The usability is what needs work. I personally use the other popular Linux desktop environment, ...

Linux can save us - Computerworld Australia
18 Jul 2008 at 1:18am
Linux can save usComputerworld Australia, Australia - 7 hours agoOr, I could go with Ubuntu Linux for zero money down. if I wanted big business support, I could buy SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 SP 2 from Novell ...

News for nerds, stuff that matters - Slashdot
18 Jul 2008 at 12:07am
News for nerds, stuff that mattersSlashdot - 8 hours agoSome of them do not need to be connected to a network, so an old version of Linux or Windows 98 are possible. DOS is too old to consider. ...GDocs vs. ThinkFree vs. Zoho vs. MS Office Slashdotall 3 news articles

Linux Not The Savior For Our Economy - PC World
17 Jul 2008 at 7:24pm
Linux Not The Savior For Our EconomyPC World - 13 hours agoHow about retraining users so they can be productive on a Linux desktop using Open Office? What's the productivity hit to the business for that? ...

Analysis: A Better Tool To Help Linux Beat Vista? - CRN
17 Jul 2008 at 3:56pm
Analysis: A Better Tool To Help Linux Beat Vista?CRN, NY - 17 hours agoBut full-blown driver support?of the kind the market came to love with Windows XP?is still lacking on the Linux desktop. Auto-NDISwrapper is a derivative of ...

The Year of the Free Software Desktop - Technocrat.net
17 Jul 2008 at 3:33pm
Global Voices OnlineThe Year of the Free Software DesktopTechnocrat.net, MA - 17 hours agoWhy is it that so many are focused on promoting the Linux kernel on the desktop as opposed to Free Software or Open Source Software on the desktop? ...Nicaragua: Open Source Software in Public Institutions Global Voices Onlineall 2 news articles

Mac lovers hurting the Linux desktop? - CNET News
17 Jul 2008 at 2:39pm
Mac lovers hurting the Linux desktop?CNET News, CA - 18 hours agoI don't think the Linux desktop faces any real threat from a group of developers advocating for change. I'm not sure a group of Mac fans could possibly do ...

Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktop - Register
16 Jul 2008 at 7:45pm
Mono man accuses Mac Gtk+ fans of jeopardizing Linux desktopRegister, UK - Jul 16, 2008According to de Icaza, developers working for Gtk+ specialist Imendio pushing the proposal have "given up on the Linux/Gnome desktop. ...

100 percent free source desktop is 100 percent...the wrong question - CNET News
14 Jul 2008 at 3:19pm
100 percent free source desktop is 100 percent...the wrong questionCNET News, CA - Jul 14, 2008There's a debate raging over on Slashdot about whether an open-source, Linux desktop should be "pure" or whether it should allow proprietary drivers, ...

Should the Linux Desktop Be "Pure?" - Slashdot
12 Jul 2008 at 6:35pm
Should the Linux Desktop Be "Pure?"Slashdot - Jul 12, 2008jammag writes "According to Matt Hartley, many Linux desktop users don't like to admit that there's scads of closed source code commonly used with the Linux ...