{"id":297,"date":"2008-10-14T17:48:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/?p=297"},"modified":"2008-10-14T17:48:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:48:36","slug":"a-supported-linux-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/10\/14\/a-supported-linux-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"A supported Linux desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/sjvn\">Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols <\/a>writing in <a title=\"ComputerWorld blog on Linux desktops\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.computerworld.com\/which_linux_makes_the_best_business_windows_replacement_desktop\">ComputerWorld <\/a>asks: what is the best Linux desktop for a small to medium sized business upgrading from Windows XP but with limited in-house technical expertise?<\/p>\n<p>The nerds, he says, will answer Ubuntu; it has street cred on the Interwebs.\u00a0 (I hasten to add that that includes me: I&#8217;m running <a title=\"Xubuntu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xubuntu.org\/\">Xubuntu<\/a> on an old laptop and it&#8217;s great, ideal for its purpose.)<\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0 for small to medium sized businesses lacking nerds, the real answer, he says is Novell&#8217;s SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.<\/p>\n<p>And why, you may ask?\u00a0 Well, in a word: <a title=\"Novell Services\" href=\"http:\/\/www.novell.com\/services\">services<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In particular, if I don&#8217;t really know Linux that well and I&#8217;m running an SMB, I want a company that can offer me the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.novell.com\/linux\/sle_support.html\">full support package<\/a>. That&#8217;s more than just 24&#215;7 phone support. Both Canonical and Novell offer that. Novell also offers other support options such as certification, training, consulting, and even retaining the services of an engineer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writing in ComputerWorld asks: what is the best Linux desktop for a small to medium sized business upgrading from Windows XP but with limited in-house technical expertise? The nerds, he says, will answer Ubuntu; it has street &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2008\/10\/14\/a-supported-linux-desktop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1425,1029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novell","category-open-source"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-4N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}