desktop Linux

Sense of humor all over Ubunto

Microsoft Subnet — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:40:57 -0400

It's April, 2008, and it has only been six months since the last desktop OS release from Ubunto. Canonical, makers of Ubunto, harkens back to the WAY old days of Microsoft when the company was both micro and soft and the Big Bad Bear was IBM. Whether you think desktop Linux is the great escape from Windows/Macs or you think it is a joke not ready for the enterprise, you have to at least appreciate the humor and delight Canonical takes in its software. Ubuntu 8.04 was code named Hardy Heron, and it follows the Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon releases of 2007.

It is attempting to make Linux as friendly to the not-so-technical user as Windows or Mac OS X has been.

Red Hat ditches Linux desktop plans

Microsoft Subnet — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:46:32 -0400

Microsoft should be smiling at the news that Red Hat will NOT release a consumer version of its planned Red Hat Global Desktop (RHGD) operating system. Instead it looks like Red Hat will focus on Microsoft's desktop weak spot -- super low priced PCs sold in emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India, and China.

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The making of Wine (how to make Windows apps merrier with Linux)

Microsoft Subnet — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:54:16 -0400

Jeremy White, co-founder and CEO of CodeWeavers, talked to Microsoft Subnet today about how Wine might make IT professionals a lot merrier. For those wanting to save money on desktops by using Linux, but feel trapped into Windows because of the need to run Windows apps, Wine can help. Ten days ago, the folks at CodeWeavers released the almost official version of this open source project that allows Windows programs to run on Linux and Mac desktops. Wine is on course for official release, its 1.0 version, in the next 60 days.

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