Tonight Live: The OSDL Desktop Initiative>> on The Linux Show!!
Tonight: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, February 24th, 2004 from Chicago IL
Tonight on
www.thelinuxshow.com.
Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are
bringing you a great show tonight ready to go!!!!!!
Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including:
Shame on Intel, Microsoft returns to its DARK SIDE, Wide Spread news on
the desktop, a clueless pundit or two........ and way more.
Segment Two- OSDL DESKTOP LINUX WORKING GROUP INITIATIVE -
We will be joined tonight by Stacey Quandt. Stacey is a principal
analyst at OSDL. She is responsible for covering key market trends
important to IT vendors and corporate end users of Linux. She is a
principal speaker for the Lab at industry conferences and trade shows
and plays a leadership role in developing Lab market research, technical
publications and industry opinion pieces. Prior to joining OSDL she was
an industry analyst at Forrester Research, where she created the firm's
Open Source Research Competency. There she advised Fortune 1000
customers with tactical and strategic advice on Linux and published
research. A popular speaker at industry conferences and events, she has
presented at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Oracle OpenWorld, the
National and Local eGovernment Programs, GigaWorld IT Forum, IBM
Roadshows, Sun Microsystems ISV Advisory Board, and many others.
OSDL or the Open Source Development Lab, is the present home to Linus
Torvalds, the creator of Linux. OSDL is dedicated to accelerating the
growth and adoption of Linux. Founded in 2000 and supported by a global
consortium of Linux customers and IT industry leaders, OSDL is a
non-profit organization that provides Linux expertise and computing and
test facilities in the United States and Japan available to developers
around the world.
In January OSDL launched a new Desktop Linux Working Group initiative
focused on greater use of Linux on desktops throughout the enterprise.
The initiative was created in response to OSDL constituents from around
the world, including the United States, Europe, Japan and China. The
shared goal is to create a forum where a range of desktop usage models
can be studied with recommendations on improvements to encourage broader
adoption of Linux. The charter of the Desktop Linux Working Group is to
work with the open source community to identify a broad set of Linux
desktop models, then develop specifications and deliver reference
implementations.
This working group is also supported by OSDL's Linux User Advisory
Council, which is comprised of senior IT executives from global 500
companies. The overall working group objectives have been developed by
an exploratory committee with representatives from freedesktop.org, HP,
IBM, Intel, Novell, OSDL, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems.
This working group has the interest and full support of OSDL members.
The use of Linux on the desktop is exploding around the world, far
faster than even we at TLS expected. According to market research firm
IDC, paid shipments of Linux rose to 2.8 percent of desktop operating
systems in 2002, up from 1.7 percent two years earlier. In 2004, it is
expected to surpass the total new product shipments for the Mac OS.
So, tonight we explore the role of the new desktop initiative, and we
examine the future of Linux desktops.
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