By Jo Best
Published: Wednesday 17 November 2004
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Brad K
Location
UK
Occupation
Consultant
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Christian, you haven't ever installed desktop linux, have you? We are 100% Linux-based, from desktops to servers in our company and no-one would have it any other way. Linux doesn't only work well on the desktop in the enterprise, it is a massive step forward thanks to the flexibility of the X11 system that allows for remote diagnostics, multiple desktops and shared resources.
Windows, even the lasted incarnations, has a huge way to go to catch up.
I laughed at the M$ comments about driver backward compatibility. Just ask anyone who has upgraded from previous versions to W2000 and then again to WXP about drivers being broken! What a cheek Microsoft has! Plays on the ignorant.
Just as Microsoft has trouble tracking the real pr...
Pablo D
Microsoft knows well that all "sales" figures are ...
Lindsey Rockwell
Isn't this just FUD at its best.
Comparing ODSL...
Alan Chandler
Just a quick question for Lindsey Rockwell: any id...
Cristian Nicola
Christian, you haven't ever installed desktop linu...
Brad K
If anything, Linux is *more* backward compatible. ...
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