As we move further into the cloud, Linux solutions become more appropriate for a wider audience. I just "upgraded" our Kitchen Laptop (that my wife uses to check her mail and pay the bills :-) to Puppy Linux w/- the Chrome browser. Installation was a breeze -- it auto-detected everything, including the pcmcia wifi card.
The machine just FLIES compared to the old XP install it was running, and my wife is a very satisfied customer. It's a 533mhz Pentium 2 with 256mb of RAM :-) I'm looking forward to play with an iPad in 3-4 years. Cheers Kerry PS: I did have to Google for the Puppy Linux Chrome installation file, but found it easily, and it installed using Puppy's package manager. On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Wildam Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 23:31, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I believe users from this large group in the middle will slowly but > > surely adopt Linux as more and more becomes possible on this platform. > > Yes, IMHO there will be no particular year of the Linux on the > desktop. It will be a slow transition. > And regarding companies a longer planning of the transition is > required. I have heard of companies switching over last years after 3 > years of planning (which I think is due to a lot of applications > needed to be replaced by platform independent solutions before). > -- > Martin Wildam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
