It's taken a while, but Linux is finally making its presence felt in the Indian desktop PC market. Red Hat and Novell (SUSE Linux) have both reported an uptick in sales of desktop Linux software. Red Hat India says it has three lakh Linux desktop installations in India with the likes of Breach Candy Hospital (Mumbai), Central Excise (Kochi) and Rajiv Gandhi Shiksha Mission (Madhya Pradesh) using its desktop software. Novell's SUSE Linux has found favour with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, Geojit Securities, and Kumara Guru College of Technology (Coimbatore). ELX Linux, an Indian company, has its own Linux distribution, and its product, ELX Biz Desktop, has 60,000 installations to its credit at clients such as Andhra Pradesh Tribunal Court (Hyderabad), Axiom Energy Conversion and Nokia Enterprise Solutions (Hyderabad)

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