Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
An initiative to create a standardised Linux desktop, with the support of the major vendors, has brought user friendly open source PCs one step closer to reality.
An organisation calling itself the Free Standards Group, supported by
global heavyweights such as IBM, HP, Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems
and Real Networks, has announced a standard for desktop Linux
applications called Linux Standard Base 3.1.
In a move that's been a long time coming, the new Linux standard is
aimed at introducing a standard environment around the Linux kernel for
which developers can build applications. At present, most of the Linux
distros have common elements but they all have their own quirks and
idiosyncracies making it difficult to develop plug and play
applications that will work across the entire range without tweaking.
A Linux desktop that can compete with Microsoft Windows has promised
for a long time but is yet to be delivered. Novell appears to be
closest with its Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, which due to be
released in July. However, most open source pundits agree that a truly
interoperable Linux desktop that can compete with Windows will require
a multi-vendor effort involving all the major Linux players.
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