The Year of the Linux Desktop
This is it. It’s now. Like it or not, you can quiver in your boots and moan about this driver or that hardware or the other usability feature, but I have two, solid irrefutable signs of the apocalypse. And both together are undeniable proof that the apocalypse is now showing on the big screen, all around you, in Technicolor.
Proof number one: This site. Oh joy, you say. Wow. Some sort of VIA download site. Amazing. No, friends, that’s not “just” a download site. It’s a crack in the dam. It’s a leak in the impenetrable wall of denial. That, my fellow Ubuntunuts, is the first baby step by the VIA corporation to make good on a promise to open-source their drivers — starting with one, teeny little driver for one teeny little graphics card. Small, but significant: Even an avalanche has to start with a sneeze.
And proof number two, you ask? Very simple: Mom’s picking out a new laptop from Dell, and it’s going to run Linux only.
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