Stupid joke aside, the year of the Linux desktop is the year that you choose to run Linux on your desktop. The end. People have been running Linux on desktop machines long before it was convenient or even sensible (Red Hat's early releases and broken GCC's come to mind)...now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running, fully patched, faster than you can with most Windows systems.
So yeah, the year of the Linux desktop? Whatever year you want it to be. All I can say is that I hope you're
In that sense, every year is the year of the DOS command line desktop.
Which is actually partially why it doesn't really matter to me what my distribution does, when I primarily use it as a vehicle for a shitload of terminal windows to SSH to the equipment and servers that I have to maintain. I need decent fonts (which there are tons of them out there now), a good window manager (and they all have the same window managers basically), good web browsers (plural, since I need to keep some mutually-incompatibl
I like that my native command shell has everything local too, not just for network access. I sometimes have to serial-console into devices. I also like that I have immediate access to my entire filesystem from the terminal window, unlike when cygwin runs in its own separate thing.
I have a Windows machine for field work, I installed a modified port of the cygwin SSH client that runs from the command prompt, but it has a problem in that it doesn't understand the Microsoft/Windows home directory structure
That clinches it. (Score:5, Funny)
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Stupid joke aside, the year of the Linux desktop is the year that you choose to run Linux on your desktop. The end. People have been running Linux on desktop machines long before it was convenient or even sensible (Red Hat's early releases and broken GCC's come to mind)...now you can download something like Linux Mint and be up and running, fully patched, faster than you can with most Windows systems.
So yeah, the year of the Linux desktop? Whatever year you want it to be. All I can say is that I hope you're
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In that sense, every year is the year of the DOS command line desktop.
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Which is actually partially why it doesn't really matter to me what my distribution does, when I primarily use it as a vehicle for a shitload of terminal windows to SSH to the equipment and servers that I have to maintain. I need decent fonts (which there are tons of them out there now), a good window manager (and they all have the same window managers basically), good web browsers (plural, since I need to keep some mutually-incompatibl
Re:That clinches it. (Score:0)
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I have a Windows machine for field work, I installed a modified port of the cygwin SSH client that runs from the command prompt, but it has a problem in that it doesn't understand the Microsoft/Windows home directory structure
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