However, a powerful pair of trends–driven almost as aggressively by Microsoft as by the rest of the industry–are working to expand the viability not only of Linux but of Mac OS X, Solaris and other platforms yet unknown or uninvented: a shift to Web-based applications and WaaR, or Windows as a Runtime.
– My review
of OpenSUSE 11.2 rounds off another semiannual check-in with what I regard
as the most important trio of desktop-oriented Linux operating systems: the
aforementioned OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and Red Hat.
If you’re given to a philosophical mindset, you may have paused while
flipping through th…