Novell, RedHat and Sun Commit to a Linux Desktop

DeckerEgo writes "InfoWorld reports on the Linux desktop and how Novell, Sun and RedHat (wha?) are working on making 2004 the year corporations start adopting open desktops. But which desktop? Most interesting to note is how Novell is planning to beef up the number of Ximian, Gnome, Mozilla and OpenOffice developers after its SuSE aquisition is complete. Does this mean that SuSE will stop being one of the best KDE distros out there and follow the way of the Gnome?"

Of course, knowing novell

[Anonymous Coward]

They will no doubt call it "linuxware", and after a few years sell it to a company named SCO, which will then get sold and become another company named SCO that will sue everyone again for some unknown reason...

Hmmmm

[the_other_one]

I suspect we will wind up with the:
Knome Desktop Environment.

funny thought

[marcushnk]

wouldn't it be funny if 3drealms didn't finish Duke 4 ever until linux dominated the home desktop market.. then they'd have to re-write their game AGAIN so it would be compatable..

LOL

Linux is Dangerous

[tonyz2k]

The biggest problem I see with Linux on the desktop is there are too many hardcore hackers working with it. I wrote a report on this for my history class, for our section on technology. We learned about this guy, Kevin Mitnick, and he pretty much took over the internet singlehandely. He also bought a Ferrari with some money he stole from AOL users, by "fishing" peoples accounts. If not for the underground lawbreakage that is possible with this Operating System (OS), the Internet (and also the Intranet) would be much safer. There are heaps of people trying to steal our Ebay & Paypal now thanks to Linux. I don't like Microsoft any more tha next dude but is not the answer.

Re:RH

[dipipanone]

i don't really see how this is insightful.

Well if you bothered to log in, you might get to meta-moderate it.

Re:It's all about KDE

[marsonist]

What's that... we get the disclaimer after we read the post.... Do you work for Microsoft?

Re:Gnome-KDE thread here!

[commodoresloat]

"I would like to know which of Gnome or KDE is better. Any opinions?"

emacs.

Betting pool?

[rdean400]

Okay, positive Linux desktop story...how long until SCO decides they need to remind everybody that they're still around?

My guess is we'll see something Friday.

Battle trailer

[ducomputergeek]

The end has come. Everyday we move closer to an opensource solution to the great desktop darkness of Bill Gates. This is our test, every failed attempt, OS/2, BeOS, Java, has led us down this road.

The Enemy will never let the penguin come to the thorwn of the desktop.

The war is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last.

"I see it in you eye's, the fear of spending too much on software. A day may come when our servers may fail, y. When we forsake our code and break the GPL, but it is not this day. This day we fight!.

[echoing voice]All you have to decide is what to do with the hardware that is given to you[/echoing voice]

"We shall see the commandline again"

You gave away your root password, I can no longer protect you anymore.

"We cannot win this by source code alone."

Not for ourselves, but we can give GNU a chance...

*Followed by several quickly flashing scense of battle slowing as the string section in the back ground retards*

"NOOOOO!!!!!"

*black with titles: Lord of the Desktop: return of the command line.

Oh, wait, I thought this was the review of RotK...my bad...

Re:Battle trailer

[UncleFluffy]

Or even:

Darth McBride: "Linux, I am your author"

Linux: "No. It can't be. That's not true. That's impossible!"

Darth McBride: "Search your CVS, you know it to be true"