Linux overtakes Mac OS on the Desktop

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Friday, August 6. 2004

Linux overtakes Mac OS on the Desktop

12 years is a while to be supporting the GUI desktop environments, of Mac OS and Windows. Prior to that there were other GUI desktops I used and supported that most users today have never heard of.

I've been using various Linux desktops seriously for the past 7 years, and during the normal course of my work, I'll use Mac OSX, KDE on Linux and Windows many times each day. Sometimes intermingled a bit with each other thanks to X over ssh and various remote GUI clients, as well as the odd emulator.

Although it seemed just a matter of time, I'm still surprised by IT industry research firm IDC's claim that "Linux captured the No. 2 spot as desktop operating system in 2003."

This has come about as HP announced it's now shipping its first notebook, the Compaq nx5000, to come with the Linux operating system preinstalled.

"This is the year that Linux overtakes the Mac on the desktop, and maybe my laptop will help accelerate that," Martin Fink, HP's vice president of Linux, said at the LinuxWorld.

Not much mention of the doubtless work that Bdale Garbee has contributed to this product either, as he both pushes and guides linux strategy within HP.

The GUI on HP's nx5000 will be the KDE-centric SUSE Linux 9.1, now owned by Novell.

KDE I find is a very productive environment for me to work in, and I have very few complaints about it, yet somehow in the back of my head I have real reservations about the credibility of the claim that there is more linux desktops in use around the world that the venerable time-tested Mac.

Maybe over time, we'll see these two first cousins compliment each other, rather than compete, ala Safari...

Posted by Danté Jones in Technology at 18:40 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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