Posted on 11/24/2007 7:43:56 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Use of the Linux operating system on desktop machines is continuing to grow with small and medium business showing the most enthusiasm for the open source software. The Linux Foundation annual survey really runs till the end of the month but entries are drying up, and they've already received 20,000 responses, so they've started crunching the numbers.
(Excerpt) Read more at channelregister.co.uk ...
Here it is:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2221165,00.asp
^^^^^^^^^almost 20,000 self-selected users filled out this year’s survey compared with fewer than 10,000 in 2006’s survey.^^^^^^^^
What I wanna know is how to do a Knoppix hard disk install...
So, businesses are driving its adoption... makes sense, free is better than not free.
Still, if I were running a business, I’d give my employees Mac workstations (Mac Minis?) and run Linux on the servers.
Yeah.
Well, I posted another article a minute ago, macs are a bigger beneficiary(as would be expected) to the winmereloaded debacle.
Here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1929945/posts
As to wether give macs or linux workstations, it would depend on a few things going on in the business at the moment. How much money was available vs what was needed, and other such stuff.
It’s funny watching these foreign websites always pimp the Linux clone over American products while webcounter stats actually show its use going down. And that’s even with them trying to give it away for free LOL.
ping
Thanks. I got a couple 6 gig blank laptop hard drives, so I’ll give it a shot. I’ll worry about setting up dual-boot later.
Pro-American is fine;why don't you rant against G.W.Bush allowing all the illegals in to take our jobs,or all the B1 visa Indian programmers that replace American IT workers ?
You must be a MicroSoft operative but I'd consider you more a bug than a feature!
Because I don't see anyone here supporting it, but I do see some supporting foreign software clones over US originals. If you think Microsoft is what Linux clones you don't know much.
Tried Ubuntu. Twice. On two different machines.
Had trouble with the mouse.
And since a plain old mouse ain’t exactly bleeding edge stuff, I figure any distro that can’t handle it goes in the scrap heap.
Knoppix, OTOH, has run, and run very well, on all the hardware I tried it on.
Me too (I don't have a "network mouse"). < |:)~
When I started Knoppix, it knew my Linksys wireless card was there. Took me all of about ten minutes to figure out how to prep the WEP key, etc, and get online.
That was faster than I was able to do it with Win2000.
Linux reminds me of Ron Paul somehow.
LOL
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