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Title	Desktop Linux is still on the outside looking in
Type	News
Source	Computerworld 5/8/06
Summary	The crowd at this month's Desktop Linux conference was more buttoned down than usual, but it still faced the same big obstacles to gaining desktop marketshare for the open source OS: the conservatism of desktop users, and the preference of PC vendors for OSes that encourage a three-year "churn" cycle. continue

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