The GNU/Linux Desktop: Nine Myths, Mar 16, 2009

For over a decade, columnists and bloggers have been explaining how GNU/Linux isn't ready for the desktop -- and, despite all the progress in the operating system over the last ten years, the arguments haven't changed much.

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Economic downturns have a tendency to accelerate emerging technologies, boost the adoption of effective solutions, and punish solutions that are not cost competitive or that are out of synch with industry trends. IDC research finds that Linux users are clearly satisfied about their choice to deploy Linux, and during trying economic times, the potential for those same customers to ramp up their deployment of Linux is strong.

Linux is a great development environment. But without sound development tools, that environment won’t do you any good. Fortunately, plenty of Linux and/or open source development tools are available.

Cisco Systems Inc. today launched its Unified Computing System, which includes virtualization technology, services and blade servers aimed at helping enterprises develop and manage what it calls "next-generation data centers."

There would be more migrations from Unix database servers to Linux if Red Hat made its product available for free, Oracle's chief Linux technologist said.

Wind River (today announced the immediate availability of Wind River Linux 3.0, Wind River’s most feature-rich Linux platform to date. Wind River Linux 3.0 is a pre-integrated, commercial-grade and fully supported Linux platform.

Companies turning to open source in the recession should know that free software is about much more, according to the GNU founder.

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