The real Window for Linux, May 02, 2005

There's an opening for Linux to grab a much larger market share on the consumer desktop side over the next twelve to eighteen months, but penguin advocates need to pull their act together and hope a couple of software companies – or one big hardware company – decides to throw their weight into giving Microsoft heartburn.

The company behind Ubuntu Linux is set to unveil ambitious plans to improve collaboration among the Linux community.

GNU/Linux does not pose the kinds of problems that Windows does. There is no registry to easily corrupt, and the operating system does not fail in generic, catch-all ways. The user has no power to alter the system software, so important files are not accidentally deleted, and potential viruses and spyware programs have no ability to wreck the system.

Linux and open source have transformed the computing landscape by making innovation a collective effort. Open source software eliminates traditional high licensing fees, limited options and vendor lock-in that too often accompany proprietary software.

CrossOver Office is available in two editions: Standard and Professional. The two are essentially the same, except Professional has multi-user support and special deployability functions. Professional is designed for businesses, Standard for home users. There is also a CrossOver Office Server Edition, which allows CrossOver Office to run on thin clients.

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