PC/OS aims to be an easy-to-use Linux distribution right out of the box. Being Ubuntu-based, it has a head start on being user-friendly, but PC/OS goes above and beyond Ubuntu's measures to ensure ea read more » DiscussBury
Any RIA in a stormSun Microsystems, it is generally felt, lost the desktop to Microsoft a long time ago. Aware of this, Sun in recent years evangelized mobile as Java's habitat - mobile is, after all read more » DiscussBury
Linda Musthaler reports, "In mid-November, Lenovo announced a desktop alternative platform called the Secure Managed Client (SMC). This storage-based solution puts a diskless client with full PC fid read more » DiscussBury
IBM and Canonical Thursday announced a virtualized software bundle combining Lotus desktop applications running on top of Ubuntu Linux that they say is far cheaper than running Microsoft's Office read more » DiscussBury
"VMware released on Tuesday VMware View 3, new software aimed at providing desktop virtualization, application virtualization, and management of virtual desktops in one product." read more » DiscussBury
Stephen J. Vaughan-Nicols reviews SimplyMEPIS and suggests that it deserves to stand alongside other top notch Linux Desktop distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE. read more » DiscussBury
Nearly two years after Window Vista's release, Windows XP remains the standard desktop OS in business. So,interest was high in Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles last week read more » DiscussBury
"Canonical, which wants Linux to challenge Apple's Macintosh in usability on the desktop, is unveiling on Monday upgrades to its Ubuntu Linux distributions, offering 3G and virtualization improveme read more » DiscussBury