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Move Your Business from Windows to Linux (PC World)Move Your Business from Windows to Linux (PC World)Posted Jul 8, 2008 15:16 UTC (Tue) by horen (subscriber, #2514)Parent article: Move Your Business from Windows to Linux (PC World)
Overall, a concise and straightforward Linux-advocacy piece, with a positive emphasis that identifies M$/Vista costs and spotlights Linux alternatives. Though not a feature-for-feature substitute for Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org definitely does the job, and for $500 less per workstation than the cost of Office Professional 2007. "$500 less per workstation", although true, is unnecessarily cute and confusing. It would have been much clearer to (re)state that OpenOffice.org is free, and would save a business $500 per seat. Gnome, KDE, and Xfce are desktop managers, not window managers. Blackbox, however, is a window manager. It would have been more helpful to briefly highlight the differences between desktop managers and window managers: the shortfalls of the former, and the advantages of the latter. I think this is a good introductary article for PC World; however, a more technical, follow-up piece, is sorely needed.
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Desktop manager? Posted Jul 8, 2008 21:34 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] KDE and Xfce call themselves desktop environments, whereas GNOME calls itself a desktop. Neither calls itself a desktop manager. I presume, a desktop manager would manage several desktops, like a window manager manages several windows.
Desktop manager? Posted Jul 9, 2008 23:31 UTC (Wed) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link] Well, KDE is the "K Desktop Environment", so it is a n environment. The "desktop" in KDE is kdesktop, i.e. the thingy which cares for the background of the screen with the icons and stuff. But I'm not sure nitpicking desktop vs. desktop manager vs. desktop environment makes sense here. Alex
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