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Linux and other open desktop alternatives

Linux and other open desktop alternatives. Sept 2003. Contact author: Tushar Chandra (tushar@us.ibm.com) IBM Research Division. Agenda. What is the Linux-based open desktop software stack? Is it credible? Demo of a working Linux desktop stack for IBM Some other alternatives to think about.

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Linux and other open desktop alternatives

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  1. Linux and other open desktop alternatives Sept 2003 Contact author: Tushar Chandra (tushar@us.ibm.com) IBM Research Division

  2. Agenda • What is the Linux-based open desktop software stack? • Is it credible? • Demo of a working Linux desktop stack for IBM • Some other alternatives to think about

  3. What is it?

  4. MS desktop software stack POP LDAP vCard media Web N/A .DOC .XLS .PPT N/A Web Browser Outlook express Outlook MSN messenger MS Word MS Excel MS Power point Other Office Tools Device drivers Third party apps Third party utils Custom apps Media player Win 32 Windows

  5. Equivalent Linux desktop software stack POP LDAP vCard media Web N/A N/A .DOC .XLS .PPT & calendar Alternative email Mozilla Various Other Office Tools Suite Office Open Device drivers Third party apps Third party utils Custom apps Alt. Media player Linux native Wine Linux native Wine Linux

  6. Is it credible?

  7. Open Desktop Status and Roadmap • Current status (by major component) • OS status: stable & secure • Desktop managers: mature enough for general use • Basic system admin: still too complicated • Device support is not perfect but improving • WINE: supports several Win32 applications • Browser: supports vast majority of web pages • Email: works well • OpenOffice: credible alternative for basic office use (> 9M Downloads) • Other applications are being ported to Linux • Each component has some problems … • … community is working to fix these problems • IBM’s Linux Client for e-business (Linux C4eb) • Currently targeted at technical community, 14,000+ downloads • Notes 5, MS Office, SameTime, Mozilla, MTS, Acrobat, Cisco wireless, SmartSuite Viewers, Java, PSM (for printing), AFS, TSM (backup)

  8. Rate of evolution • Gnome: 2.0 (June 2002), 2.2 (Feb 2003), 2.4 (Sept 2003) • OpenOffice: 1.0 (May 2002), 1.0.1 (July 2002), 1.0.2 (Jan 2003), 1.0.3 (Apr 2003), 1.1 beta 2 (May 2003), 1.1 (Sept 2003) • Mozilla: 1.3 (Jan 2003), 1.4 (May 2003), 1.5 (Sept 2003)

  9. IBM 30% enterprise apps Sun Apple 40 ISVs Core OS 5 140 China ? OpenOffice Applications IBM 200-500 20 Core Platform Win4Lin Mozilla 75 Desktops VMs Wine CodeW Gnome Distribution KDE 75 Windows apps Debian Lindows Ximian RedHat Suse Some parts of the Linux Desktop Ecology Identified 350 (Full Time PY) developers across 3 projects (very conservative) Add 180 developers from Qihang-1

  10. Demo

  11. Other alternatives to consider • Windows + OpenOffice.org • Value: avoids MS Office licence • Move applications to browser-based model • Value: Manageability, increased platform independence, lower TCO • Reduces reliance on Win32 APIs

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