9 Jan 2006 Burgundavia   » (Journeyer)

Google Juice

One bored moment this weekend I decided to google for "linux desktop". Then I realized that there was something wrong: No Ubuntu in first 20 hits. Instead we have many fine other distros (Novell Linux Desktop, Linspire, Xandros, Foresight, and Mepis), Asa's piece on why it is NOT ready, the OSDL page and a few news articles.

But then Brian Shumate pointed me to that googling for gnu/linux desktop get, in order, a non-official Debian survival guide, Libranet, and then wonder of wonders, us and our KDE brethern. Despite what RMS might want to believe, the world thinks of it as Linux and not GNU/Linux, so that doesn't do us much good.

So go out there and lets push us up the rankings. Lets make our favourite linux desktop rock!

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