Getting the Desktop Ready for Linux: A Historical Analysis (Linux Journal)
[Posted June 25, 2003 by corbet]
The Linux Journal
examines the progress of desktop Linux, along with the challenges that remain.
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Wal-Mart can cut a deal to get a few hundred PCs with SuSE
on them, store them in a warehouse somewhere and ship them onesie-twosie
to the oddball cust, err, enlightened individuals who want them.
They're not going to ship ten PCs to every Wal-Mart in the country,
sacrifice the shelf space, endure the customer confusion when somebody picks
one up and takes it home expecting the latest offering from Microsoft to be
pre-loaded--you see where I'm going."
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