[MLUG] Company offers free Linux installs on desktops

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/06/06/linux.desktop.idg/index.html

Company offers free Linux installs on desktops

By Ed Scannell

(IDG) -- Hoping to revive the flagging fortunes of Linux on the desktop,
Linux Centers USA, a New York-based software trainer, is offering to
install the open-source operating system for free on users' systems.

Although server versions of Linux continue to cut into the lead held by
Microsoft among low- and mid-range servers the last a couple of years, it
continues to lag and even lose market share on the desktop to Windows.

In fact, last month startup Eazel, thought by some industry observers to
have the best chance of establishing Linux on corporate desktops through
its sophisticated graphical interface, closed its doors because of a lack
of funding.

Also last month Mandrake, a French-based Linux distributor, said it
planned to focus on server-based market opportunities and would no longer
concentrate on desktop sales.

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