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Current Newswire: Planning Extensions in TYPO3 How the Linux Kernel Manages Virtual Memory Make Your BIOS Love Security The Telepathic Desktop: Apps Are Out, People Are In Passive Checks and NSCA (Nagios Service Check Acceptor) Setting Up Master-Master Replication On Four Nodes With MySQL 5 On Debian Etch Plain English Explanation Of An Awk Statement For Linux Or Unix Can't Print in Evince, GEdit, Claws-Mail Kubuntu Moves Forward: You Can't Please Everyone, All the Time Editor's Note: Linux Should Copy Amiga Sr. Developer, Backend Professional Technical Resources US-OR-Portland Post A Job | Post A Resume It's Time to Retire "Ready for the Desktop" May 19, 2008, 21 :45 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (2472 reads) (Other stories by Jeremy LaCroix) "Quite a few reviews of new Linux releases these days try to determine if a distribution is 'ready for the desktop.' I myself have probably been guilty of using that phrase, but I think it's time we officially retire this criterion. "What defines an operating system as being ready for the desktop? Surely everyone has a different opinion on the actual definition. While my search for an official definition or list of guidelines has failed, to me this phrase means that the OS is usable by everyone, meets everyone's needs, and is able to do everything that everyone wants it to do. In that regard, is any operating system truly ready for the desktop...?" Complete Story Related Stories: How Linux Passion Sometimes Beats Windows Preloads(Feb 27, 2008) LinuxWorld: Mainstream Games on the Linux Desktop(Mar 18, 2004) LinuxWorld: What Linux Really Needs is a Killer Game(Mar 15, 2004) LinuxWorld: Is Linux Desktop-Ready Yet... Or Not?(Nov 27, 2003) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   Ready for the desktop means...    philc May 19, 2008, 23:27:16     Ready for the Desktop    paul May 20, 2008, 06:07:00     "Ready" is subjective    jp May 20, 2008, 22:53:16     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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