Open-source desktop quest almost complete
Is 2008 the year of the open-source desktop? Red Hat Linux is now widely deployed on the servers in my datacentre. Users have no idea what operating system underlies our web applications and databases, nor do they care, as long as those tools are highly available.
But the desktop is uncharted territory. Over the past year, I’ve been on a quest to find an operating system that balances ease of use, stability, low cost and high functionality. My experiences were the subject of an article in CIO magazine that described how I tried to use my enterprise applications with Windows XP, Mac OS X, Red Hat and Fedora.
Based on these experiences, I think I can say when the open-source desktop will become a more widely deployed end-user operating system: when it becomes a product and not a project.
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Again....
This is the third time he publishes this essay with a different headline and the same mistakes (e.g. no need for command line to mount devices).