Ubuntu: Is Linux is crossing the chasm?

BBC News says that Dell are going to start shipping consumer desktops with Ubuntu linux on them. For ordinary people to use.

I think this is cool because the geek in my loves unix and the dad in me has no time to actually configure unix boxes to do useful things.
But it made me think: I’m not actually interested in cutting edge products and fads. I’m interested in the stuff that lasts, and that the early majority or even the later majority can adopt. As someone clever said at a conference once: “Getting a video call on your mobile is cool. Getting a video call from your mum really shows that technology is having an impact.”

So if you’re reading ths blog looking for the latest insight into cutting edge technology, you’re in the wrong place. This blog is all about the stuff that makes it, or should be making it, across the chasm and over the adoption curve.

(For an explanation of all this curve and chasm malarkey, see the Wikipedia page about it).

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