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Linux on the desktop is so hot there's now a fight over it

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"I have 4 pcs running Linux so no need to think I am a MS Fanboi, I like systems that do the job I need to get done, not the flavour of the day that the tech media would like me to use"

Ditto - but I see a little hope in this announcement in for some companies/environments: a place I supported until about 2 years ago was an example. We would spend hours at a time building corporate standard desktop images (new one per quarter as "Global IT policies" changed), then testing for a mandatory week, and then rolling them out to users, all of which had Receiver and every single business application used from within a XenDesktop on top of the image. The test "machine" i dd that was Ubuntu on a USB stick with the XD running on that ran rings around the other machines, but it wasn't deemed "compliant", so the IT people were the only ones that used it!

If this opens some minds even a tiny bit, that's a good thing ... ?

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