A Linux Desktop on Every PC

And a chicken in every pot . . . even if you ignore the rotating cubes and wobbly windows, the modern Linux desktop can still take on anything from Redmond and better it. So what will it take to supplant Windows on the world's desktops? How much better must linux be? New offerings from GNOME and KDE (including the revolutionary KDE 4) promise to make Linux easier, friendlier, cooler, and sexier than ever before. Has the time finally arrived? Join Marcel for an exciting tour of tomorrow's desktop today; you won't need to pimp your desktop, but if you feel the need, Marcel will give you some tips there as well. Now all we have to do is replace all those Windows desktops. Should be a piece of cake, right?

Marcel Gagné, Author and Columnist, Linux Journal Marcel Gagné (Canada's Linux Guru), is probably best known as the award-winning author of the Linux Journal 'Cooking with Linux' series, for which he received the Readers' Choice award for favorite column four years in a row. His fourth, and more recent book, the second edition of his immensely successful "Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!' is available in stores now. One of the best known voices of the Linux and open source world, he has written numerous articles on Linux and open source projects for various publications including Linux Journal, InformIT, Unix Review, SysAdmin magazine, and several others. He also appears regularly on radio, at industry shows, user groups, universities, and as the Linux guy on Tech TV's "Call for Help". He has written about, installed, and taught many open source applications including the Linux desktop environment itself, as well as the popular OpenOffice.org office suite. A long-time systems and network administrator, Marcel is a published science fiction author and editor, a pilot, an avid science and astronomy buff, and a former top 40 disc jockey. He also folds a mean Origami T-Rex.