Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

Re: [News] Linux Might Run on Almost Every Desktop Soon

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

____/ 7 on Friday 19 December 2008 19:46 : \____

> 
> 
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>> 
>> Linux's '09 Outlook: Everywhere, Even On Windows Machines
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | It sounded like a wild hook for a story, to put it mildly: In 2009, it
>> | is said, Linux will ship on more PCs than Windows. So I sat down with
>> | Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation to explain his reasoning behind such
>> | a statement. He did, and I learned about great many other
>> | forward-looking insights for Linux in '09, too.
>> | 
>> | "The New York Times recently did a piece on big-name companies like Dell
>> | and Hewlett-Packard all diving in the [Linux-powered] netbook space," he
>> | told me, "and on top of that there's QuickBoot, where you power on your
>> | machine and a couple of seconds later, you've booted into a
>> | Linux-powered mini-environment with network access, e-mail, and so on.
>> | The thing is, when people use this, Microsoft loses that much more
>> | customer experience. You're not booting into Windows, so Windows becomes
>> | further from the consumer in terms of what they're using day to day. And
>> | as you get less dependent on Windows, other things rise to the fore. If
>> | every machine that ships, ships with this, that?s that much less of
>> | Windows people are using in some form. You can see then how Linux
>> | outships Windows in this sense."
>> `----
>> 
>> http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/12
> linuxs_09_outlo.html
> 
> 
> I'm thinking the next innovation is to make a quantum jump
> from quick boot session of a Linux booted desktop
> like Splashtop into a frozen Linux session on the hard disk.
> Similar to how VirtualBox jumps into a Saved Session.
> 
> At the same time freeze the Splashtop so that it can be jumped
> back in again from the hard disk based OS.
> 
> And from there you could jump to an entirely different frozen
> hard disk session.
> 
> Oh Man! I would love such a feature!!!

This type is thing is super-useful to on-line banking (that's secure).

- -- 
                ~~ Best of wishes

Roy S. Schestowitz      | Open syntax, Open API's, Open standards
http://Schestowitz.com  |  Open Prospects   |     PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
Tasks: 140 total,   1 running, 139 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
      http://iuron.com - knowledge engine, not a search engine
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)

iEYEARECAAYFAklMFX4ACgkQU4xAY3RXLo5EkwCeO9ZdyhYRuEd0Jf2KxulMBzU6
9cMAn2MLbp2aRJHMDg0egYGJCMhkVanJ
=DF7t
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index