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Gabe Newell (Formerly Microsoft, Now Valve's Head) and Intel Declare GNU/Linux Desktop Victorious

Gabe Newell
Source: Official GDC



Summary: The long-ridiculed claims that GNU/Linux has reached its year of desktop prominence are becoming mainstream

Valve is shifting away from Windows and will soon reveal its GNU/Linux appliance [1-10], which will be a gaming machine. Intel, the largest chipmaker, is meanwhile showing increasing levels of support for GNU/Linux leaders [11] (except Canonical's forks with Ubuntu [12]) in order to sell chips on devices [13-14], desktops/laptops [15], and servers [16]. There is clearly a lot of work going into kernel-level improvements [17-20] and Intel now foresees a future of GNU/Linux as the dominant desktop platform [21-22]. Given that even allies of Microsoft (or former staff-turned-entrepreneur with net worth of $ 1.1 billion) switch to GNU/Linux so enthusiastically, can anyone still say with a straight face that GNU/Linux will never "make it"?



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  12. Intel not to support Ubuntu's XMir
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  13. Atom-based PC/104 SBC runs Linux hot or cold
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  15. Google announces Haswell powered Chromebooks
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  16. Intel Uses Open Source, OpenStack Cloud to Its Advantage
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  20. Linux Still Needs Better OpenGL Debugging Support
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  21. Is the year of the Linux desktop finally here?
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  22. Intel: The year of the Linux desktop is here
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