The state of the 2006 Linux desktop

Posted by Daniel Stout on Mon 21 Aug 2006 at 6:56 AM

Interesting article over at DesktopLinux.com by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols entitled The state of the 2006 Linux desktop. He notes a sudden rise of people running Linux on their laptops over the summer.

My unscientific survey revealed that about a third of those desktops were running the newest Ubuntu, another third were running either openSUSE or SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop), and the final third were Freespire or Linspire. I also saw a scattering of Xandros and other Linux distributions.

They all have one thing in common. These were all from the new generation of desktop Linuxes that has appeared over the course of this summer.

People are looking for alternatives to the WinMac monopoly. There’s never been a better time to try out desktop Linux. I prefer SUSE Linux 10.1, but a lot of people are also running Ubuntu. Where is Red Hat? They seem to have lost momentum. I tried out Fedora 4 last fall, but haven’t done anything with them since. Fedora 4 crashed a lot on me, but SUSE is very stable. [via E@zyVG]

Tags: desktop linux · fedora · freespire · linux · red hat · suse linux · ubuntu

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