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[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, June 07, 2013 06:19 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 06/06/2013 06:17 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:26 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>>>> while "Kernel Mode Setting" is kernel related, it is of no
>>>> significance for distros running on servers.
>>> But it is of paramount importance to those running desktops!
>>> Remember that Linux became popular because it is reliable
>>> alternative to both Windows and MacOS as a desktop system.
>>
>> Excuse me? Linux on the desktop has been and still is a goal. Maybe with
>> Valve making Steam on Linux a reality this might take things a bit
>> closer in terms of home desktops but business desktops is still a pipe
>> dream.
>
>   Nah.  I see it (and use it) on desktops all over the place. Every 
> company I've worked for in the past few years has moved to, or is in 
> the process of moving to Linux for desktops.  Sorry!
>
>               -Dave
>
Good for you. I'm not seeing it over here at all. I thought there would 
be a good chance with KDE3 and its ability to have an easy to use 
centrally managed desktop environment but then the KDE chaps decided to 
get a new toy.

Must be nice to have people willing to move to Open/Libre Office and 
also away from Outlook's email/central calendar integration.