It's Simple; Build A Better Desktop

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Fri, 07/25/2008 - 01:20

Mark Shuttleworth, founder and financial backer of Ubuntu, urges the Linux Community to "build a better desktop than Apple." Shuttleworth made this statement this week at OSCON (O'Reilly's Open Source Convention).

He added that interoperability with Windows is of very high importance. Sounds easy enough. Let me get right on that.

Shuttleworth is actually correct. We should focus on a better Linux desktop--better than Apple's Mac OS X--better than Windows--and better than current Linux offerings.

If you're not a billionaire like Mark Shuttleworth, how do you go about building a better...

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