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[News] Many Good Applications Keep Coming to GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] Many Good Applications Keep Coming to GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:01:43 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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For 2008 expect more Linux applications

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| The big technology trend of the current day is the merging of markets — 
| mobile, desktop, server, online — into one big all-you-can-eat application 
| buffet.  
| 
| Nothing serves that buffet, at every level, as well as Linux. Linux works 
| well in every niche. This will be the year applications start taking 
| advantage.  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1835

Firefox 3 Linux Preview

http://thelinuxmovement.blogspot.com/2007/12/firefox-3-linux-preview.html

Compiz-Fusion (productivity examples):

http://fusioncast.fsckr.net/vidarchive/practical.mpeg


Related:

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| The first being the application availability -- there are 37,000+ available 
| packages! 
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http://jon-reagan.blogspot.com/2007/12/cnr-beta-review.html


Red Hat growth: A tale of 2,000 applications

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| Red Hat's Linux business continues to boom, even when we don't give it the 
| credit that it deserves. What is the underlying reason for that growth? 
| 
| Applications.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9791171-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad


Linux Will Displace Unix When It Comes To New Apps

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| Last month, Gartner analyst George Weiss predicted applications will no 
| longer be developed to run on Unix. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Linux has its roots in Unix and is POSIX compliant, so converting a new 
| application from one to the other will always be possible.  
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/10/last_month_gart.html

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