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Linux on the desktop - Much relies on Novell. Can they make it ...

08/27/2006  
Relevance: 6.59
Michael Farnum discusses how Novell can make GNU/Linux a serious contender in the desktop market. However, I strongly disagree with the author's assertion that apps need to be developed by mainstream vendors, as opposed to Joe Hacker working in his basement. Linus wasn't a mainstream vendor when he started hacking out Linux. The GNU tools were not developed by mainstream vendors. And I sure hope Michael doesn't mean we need more non-free crap. Weigh it for yourself, though.
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Indianapolis Star Brands Tux500 Project a Winner

05/09/2007  
Relevance: 6.23
Getting anything into the mainstream news cycle is tough. The old adage"If it bleeds, it leads", has proven to be an apt proverb in the case of the Tux500.com Project. While the only thing that may be bleeding in this effort are a few egos, that sort of injury isn't enough to get the attention of the big guys in the mainstream press.
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GNOME Foundation gets serious about a11y

02/28/2008  
Relevance: 6.14
The GNOME Foundation has announced a new initiative to further boost the development of a11y in the open-source world. A11y stands for accessibility (there's 11 letters between A and Y.) Development of a11y solutions has important ramifications even if you aren't an a11y user. Oftentimes a11y solutions become mainstream usability solutions. For example, onscreen keyboards are making their way to embedded applications. Use of keyboard shortcuts and gestures are becoming more mainstream. Screen magnifications, and the list goes on. Myself, I've been working on a project recently with FunkyPenguin on getting Cheese to work well with openSUSE. While Cheese has mainstream applicability, it is a tool that directly can benefit Deaf users
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Mainstream U.S. Media Discovers Ubuntu Linux

03/10/2008  
Relevance: 5.79
Ubuntu coverage in a major U.S. newspaper shows that Ubuntu's early adopters aren't necessarily geeks. More and more of those Ubuntu users apparently live on Main Street U.S.A., according to The VAR Guy.Details here.
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Real Time Coming to Linux Real Soon

08/24/2006  
Relevance: 5.49
Real Time operating systems have traditionally been a separate breed from mainstream ones. Thanks to efforts to incorporate Real Time enhancements into Linux, standard mainstream Linux may well become a real, Real Time OS real soon. A Real Time OS offers the promise of better response times and a degree of determinism not found in non-Real Time OS's.
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Red Hat looks to mainstream markets for growth

10/08/2008  
Relevance: 5.39
Expanding Linux adoption beyond key vertical markets is an important driver for Red Hat's growth, which remains steady even as one of its strongest customer sectors, financial services, is getting hit hard by the U.S. crisis, the company's CEO, Jim Whitehurst, said Tuesday. At a Red Hat analyst event in New York, which was available via webcast, Whitehurst said that while Red Hat does well with"companies that use technology for competitive advantage," mainstream companies that don't care about being on the leading edge of technology adoption are still largely an untapped market for the vendor.
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Where does Linux go from here?

10/20/2007  
Relevance: 5.23
Linux is now mainstream -- so mainstream, in fact, that two of the top three Linux distributions are commercially successful operations, and the third aims to be. Every day, more and more old-school IT firms shake off their initial doubts, get in line behind their customers, and try Linux and other free software projects. In the face of such success, will Linux remain true to its free software ideals and to the community which created it? Or will it morph into a corporate byproduct, driven by the bottom line, and complacent with all forms of predatory intellectual property (IP), including software patents and closed, proprietary standards which are standard fare in the IT industry.
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Is Linux still too geeky?

09/18/2007  
Relevance: 4.80
The word for today is disappointment. The New York Times says Apple is blowing its desktop opportunity, ignoring the channel, despite its incredible awesomeness. As to Linux, it's still too geeky. This final verdict, issued by Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal concerning a Dell laptop he reviewed with Ubuntu, has been spreading like wildfire on the Internets, even hitting some political blogs. Trouble is, Mossberg admits in his story that he talked to Canonical'sMark Shuttleworth who admits the current version of the software is not really aimed at mainstream users. He found it's not something it admits it's not, and somehow that's a headline. Zonbu, which Mossberg did not review, is aimed at mainstream users. And early reviews on Zonbu are quite promising.
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DRM: Microsoft's Ace in the Hole

03/12/2007  
Relevance: 4.46
The time for adoption has never looked better, but unfortunately, we are still sitting on some very serious problems that will continue to make sure that Linux is seen as"unusable" as possible to those who are in the mainstream world.
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Giving OpenVZ a Try

05/12/2007  
Relevance: 4.26
OpenVZ has made a live Linux CD for users to try out its virtualization technology as it continues to work its way into the virtualizaiton mainstream.
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