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| Thread ID: 74393 | 2006-11-21 01:07:00 | Is the Linux Desktop Dead? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 500764 | 2006-11-21 01:07:00 | I'm just the messenger here: Clich here for the article -> :waughh: (techrepublic.com.com) I get to read these articles while youse guys sleep or are at work...anyway, you are not here most of the time I am on.... I surf, hence the nickname....and I like to check out the tech articles the most. Hopefully this is as good for youse guys as it is for me. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 500765 | 2006-11-21 02:55:00 | I'm just the messenger here: Clich here for the article -> :waughh: ( . com . com/5208-6230-0 . html;jsessionid=8iBHlEkAFY6tuVai8q?forumID=102&threadID=204422&start=0" target="_blank">techrepublic . com . com) I get to read these articles while youse guys sleep or are at work . . . anyway, you are not here most of the time I am on . . . . I surf, hence the nickname . . . . and I like to check out the tech articles the most . Hopefully this is as good for youse guys as it is for me . Can't be . I saw Elvis using it down at the mall yesterday . |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 500766 | 2006-11-21 03:02:00 | I thought you were a surfer as in surf the waves as you live in the right place...LOL | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 500767 | 2006-11-21 10:33:00 | Just flame bait Joe. The guy doesn't really know what he is talking about. You just need to take note on this forum as to the number of new Linux people in the last year or so to know that the Linux desktop is far from dead. Looking at the OS poll over a quarter of the users use a non MS OS and some of them will be using both. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 500768 | 2006-11-21 11:11:00 | I believe in the next 5-10 years it wont matter what OS you choose, you will only need a connection to the internet. A lot of applications are now being developed for browser use, this is the clear way ahead. You can jump on any computer with any OS, open a browser window, login and have all your files and applications there. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 500769 | 2006-11-21 16:22:00 | I thought you were a surfer as in surf the waves as you live in the right place . . . LOL Well . . . I usta surf . . . many years ago when I was in high school . . . Huntington Beach (http://www . hboilers . com/) / Marina, class of '64 (you can fill in the first two digits for fun) . We'd surf at Bolsa Chica or Huntington State Beach or Seal Beach before classes, and the old school had places to store our surfboards in locked cabinets while we showered to get the salt off us . We'd leave them there until the end of the school day and go surf again afterwards . The town of Huntington Beach ( . wikipedia . org/wiki/Huntington_Beach,_California" target="_blank">en . wikipedia . org) was known as Surf City, as Jan & Dean's famed song alluded . It was an interresting conglomeration of shacks and buildings all catering to the surf crowd . . with JAX restaurant under the pier serving Strips and Tacos for the surfers . We had The Rendezvous and Balboa Pavillian for our surf bands to perform every weekend . I saw The Beachboys there and Flo & Eddie, aka: The Turtles (or Eddie & The Fluorescent Leech usta be called) . The Surfaris, The Viscounts, Dick Dale & The Delltones, The Markays, The Rivingtons and many others performed all the time . It was an endless Summer . One of my very fav people was Ike & Tina Turner, and the Ike & Tina Review . . . before she divorced Ike and went out on her very successful own . Hoyt Axton, Sam & Dave, The Dovells, Eddie & The Showmen and others performed pretty much at a place called The Golden Bear on Pacific Coast Highway all the time . The Pavalon across the street, catered to the Carnaby Street performers: Jerry & The Pacemakers, Linda Hopkins, The 5th Dimension, Herman's Hermits, The Mersey Beats, The Standells, Arthur Brown, Donovan and other Euro-types played here . I heard and saw pretty much every one of these groups, except for the 5th Dimension, which I later saw in Hawaii . OK . . . . . I know! I did it again . . . I hijacked my own post . . . . . . . . :D |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 500770 | 2006-11-21 17:29:00 | And yet here is an article with the exact opposite stance from a few days ago: Linux desktop domination "just a matter of time" (www.desktoplinux.com). Only time will tell the true story. BTW, I didn't realise the guy being interviewed in the above article, Mark Shuttleworth, was such a high achiever: - founded Thawte, a company specializing in digital certificates and Internet privacy. - The first African in Space mission and flew in space as a cosmonaut member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station. - Founded the Ubuntu project :eek: |
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