Linux ready for the desktop

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Subject: [Linux-aus] news snippet: Linux ready for the desktop
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:49:10 +0930
From: Brenda Aynsley
To: Linux Australia Mailing List , OSIA DISCUSSION LIST


Linux ready for the desktop
Since its inception in the early nineties, Linux has achieved a
significant share of the server operating system market. The desktop,
however, has largely been the domain of Windows since the advent of
Windows 95 more than a decade ago. Rodney Gedda looks at the changing
tide of the enterprise desktop
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1555287553&eid=-255

contains a list of orgs using linux on the desktop to some degree

cheers
brenda
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