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Yes, the chicken and egg thing. A little hard to overcome. But,
Microsoft can not hold back the flood waters forever. There are all of those fixed function desktops out there that can benifit first. But, the way into the enterprise is through first running open source apps like Firefox, OpenOffice, and Gimp on Windows for now. Kind of like the basketball player trying to hard, we need to let the game come to us and be patient about replacing Windows with Linux. Just focus on the basics of making desktop Linux better, and our time will come.

Another thing that would help would be an eclipse project for porting applications to Wine. This would make it much easier to target Linux with a native Linux/Wine version. But, that brings up the other ugly problem with Linux on the desktop: incompatible binaries. Hopefully Ian Murdock will be able to fix that at LSB, but without common binaries accross all distributions (including drivers), desktop Linux is a non-starter.
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Great to see competition and inovation!! But, they need to ditch the SUSE  DonnieBoy | 03/09/06
come on....  ickusslime@... | 03/09/06
Reds and blues are much more popular. Most agree SUSE is UGGGLLY.  DonnieBoy | 03/09/06
How are you pronouncing SuSE?  joethemacfan | 03/09/06
How are you pronouncing SuSE?  Grastar | 03/10/06
What a lame excuse.  nucrash | 03/09/06
Also think Ubuntu, it is the number one request at Dell.  DonnieBoy | 03/10/06
The whole world is waiting ...  George Mitchell | 03/09/06
Yes, the chicken and egg thing. A little hard to overcome. But,  DonnieBoy | 03/09/06
Novell hopes its next desktop will leapfrog Windows  Loverock Davidson | 03/09/06
Added note  Loverock Davidson | 03/09/06
Atleast they are keeping at it.  nucrash | 03/09/06
This really depends  nucrash | 03/09/06
Hate competition...  jasonp@... | 03/21/06
Novel: if you want to help desktop Linux even more, help fix the  DonnieBoy | 03/09/06
that's the begining of the end for M$!  Linux Geek | 03/09/06
Don't you mean "end of Linux"?  John Zern | 03/10/06
Oh no not again  jimk_z | 03/09/06
We can only hope.  nucrash | 03/09/06
Novell  nucrash | 03/09/06
Oh, Novell makes those Leapfrog units  Boot_Agnostic | 03/10/06

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