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[News] The Way to Have Desktop Linux Accepted by OEM's

How Linux can compete with Windows Vista

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| A friend who packages GNU/Linux for commercial sale says the constant need
| to sell more powerful hardware is a big reason why desktop and laptop
| vendors love Windows and aren't keen on Linux. (Server rooms, where
| efficiency counts, are obviously a whole different ball game.) But there
| is hope for Linux. Our friend believes the new Xgl 3-D Linux desktop
| will make Linux need just as much hardware updating as Windows Vista.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Yes, some of us will go on using old-fashioned, plain-jane, 2-D GNOME or
| KDE -- or even lightweight IceWM or Xfce desktop environments -- on
| older computers, but if a large enough group of GNU/Linux users demand
| sugar-sweet eye candy, Linux could easily become as worthwhile for
| computer manufacturers and retailers as Windows Vista -- especially if
| the Linux computers included OpenOffice.org and other interesting
| application programs that aren't part of a typical OEM Windows
| installation.
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