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- angel0, on 04/06/2008, -0/+8what year is this? 1995? oh no wait, isn't it 2008?
Linux IS desktop alternative already, idiot - Adelie, on 04/06/2008, -0/+6Could be? HA! XP is a great gaming system, but Linux has real desktop power options that for anyone that has used Linux for even a short period of time can realize. I think the whole "
- insllvn, on 04/06/2008, -0/+2Oh man, I hope it is ready soon, because until it is my linux box and I are going to look foolish.
- floort, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1Only one thing is keeping it from becoming a desktop standard -- marketing. The masses don't buy the best product - they buy what people tell them to buy.
- rauz, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1Coulda woulda shoulda.
- deadbaby, on 04/06/2008, -0/+1I think any competition to Windows helps Linux in the long run. The only way to beat Microsoft is to employee the "death by a thousand paper cuts" strategy. If both OSX & Linux continue to grow market share Microsoft is forced to fight a war on two fronts. I fully believe in the old saying that an enemy of an enemy is your friend. There have been a few cases, CUPS for example, where OSX's market share has helped open source and of course open source is a fundamental building block of OSX. It seems to be a beneficial relationship so far.
- smacksaw, on 04/06/2008, -1/+1"Of the 981 million PCs in existence worldwide last year, 1.7 percent ran Linux, according to Gartner Inc. That sounds paltry. But Apple's Mac operating system accounted for just 2.5 percent, and Apple is considered a significant, influential alternative to Windows."
Even more amazingly, Apple has tons of advertising and a very exciting figurehead in Steve Jobs while Linux has no advertising and the very bland Linus Torvalds (whose power is over Linux is meaningless compared to Jobs' power over Apple).
I don't think it's just Microsoft that should be scared, it's Apple. Because if Linux supplants the Mac as the 2nd biggest operating system, it will in effect become the political opposition. The Linux community will control the debate and get the press as Microsoft's next largest competitor.
If you're a Linux fan, set your sights on Apple. Even though they're a close 'nix cousin, Linux must move ahead of Apple to make big inroads against MS.
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