linux is coming to a desktop near you. the question being asked has gone from "can it happen?" to "when and how do we get there?" this article is a high-level overview of some of the technical issues revolving around your corporate linux desktop.
fear, uncertainty, and doubt: the current fud
does anyone remember moving from dos to windows 3.1 or from windows 3.1 to windows 95? if people can make those jumps, then windows 2000/xp to kde should not be nearly as hard.here is a simple example: how hard would it be for an end user to adapt from the look and feel of ms windows 2000 (shown in figure 1 running as a vmware guest on my laptop) to the desktop shown in figure 2, which is kde 3.2.3 running under mandrake 10.1?
the user interface paradigm is the same: click to do things, such as opening up menus that contain actions. click on icons on either desktops or task bars to start specific things right away. see the status of things on the right hand of the task bar; its just not that different. nothing like ms windows 3.1 to ms windows 95, and that jump was called revolutionary, not "too hard to use because it is a little different."
further, my daughter has been using linux and windows interchangeably since she was seven. are the purveyors of this one saying that everyone suddenly got stupid...right after they converted to windows 2000 or xp?
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before any corporate-sponsored linux-based project gets under way, the current crop of fud should probably be addressed. it might save some time later, and the mere fact that it comes up is a testament to the success of those who are spreading it. there is so much of it that theres no way this article can be remotely comprehensive on the topic. youll need to evaluate what has come your way: ask the principals what they have heard and address it so that everyone understands that this is not another backroom project. for the purposes of this article well largely assume that were talking about bringing a linux desktop into the corporate setting, since linux in the glass house is already well established.linux is hard to use/learn/operate 【推荐阅读:Timing is Everything】
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