Samsung posts $7.4 billion profit as handsets mask weak chip sales

Re:Samsung posts $7.4 billion profit as handsets mask weak c... by sek on Friday October 26, 2012 @04:17AM (#4701326)

I still think a desktop Linux will be big in the enterprise, especially for computer professionals. You need a powerful machine for certain things.

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Re:Samsung posts $7.4 billion profit as handsets mask weak c... by confluence on Friday October 26, 2012 @04:37AM (#4701367)

You're probably right - but that wasn't the goal of the Desktop - which was mainstream adoption.

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Re:Samsung posts $7.4 billion profit as handsets mask weak c... by vidarh on Friday October 26, 2012 @08:04AM (#4701813)

When you make statements like this, you need to qualify the goal of whom. I've run Linux on my desktop since '95. It's not my goal to get mainstream adoption - mainstream adoption is irrelevant to me. The same is the case for a lot of people, and quite a few Linux "desktop distros".

Specific distro's might have mainstreaming the Linux desktop as a goal. Some might have failed. Some are still trying.

But there's no single goal here. Nor even a single vision of what a "Linux desktop" should look like.

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