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Submission + - The Linux Desktop and ISVs/OEMs (gnome.org)

Submitted by olau on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @07:25AM

olau writes: Michael Meeks who's worked on GNOME and LibreOffice integration for many years, now for SuSE, has some really interesting thoughts on the recent Linux desktop debacle and suggestions for possible strategies. He points out that regarding ISVs, the real issue isn't actually the quality of the tools but the size and attractiveness of the market, and perhaps that a solution could be lower barriers for paying or donating. Regarding OEMs selling hardware with software preinstalled, he points out that while free OS + software sounds good for consumers, it's actually a problem for OEMs on razor thin margins since they lose the cut they get from the preinstallations. A possible countermove could be nailing robustness and hardware diagnostics for good, lowering OEM support costs.

Submission + - The True Challenges of Desktop Linux (gnome.org)

Submitted by olau on Friday August 31, 2012 @06:49PM

olau writes: Hot on the heels on the opinion piece on how Mac OS X killed Linux on the desktop is a more levelheaded analysis by another GNOME old-timer Christian Schaller who doesn't think Mac OS X killed anything. In fact, in spite of the hype surrounding Mac OS X, it seems to barely have made a dent in the overall market, he argues. Instead he points to a much longer list of thorny issues that Linux historically has faced as a contender to Microsoft's double-monopoly on the OS and the Office suite.

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