Saturday, October 19, 2002

Is SSH the Mac's killer app?. The enterprise Mac. IN MAY 2001, Apple began shipping OS X on new Macs. Six months later, at the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services conference, it was clear that a sea change was under way. The open-source geeks who flock to these events were flouting Microsoft not with PC notebooks running Linux, but with PowerBooks running OS X. Displayed on their gorgeous Aqua screens was the Mac's newest and most unlikely killer app: SSH, the secure shell, in all its 80-column, 25-line splendor. [Full story at InfoWorld.com.] ... [Jon's Radio] [Mac Net Journal] 6:42:10 PM

Is Linux Really Going To Rule the Desktop?. The Linux operating system remains strong in the server market. When it comes to the desktop, though, Linux can claim less than 1 percent market share, according to 2001 figures. And much of the noise about Linux on the desktop has been overshadowed by support for Mac OS X as an alternative to Windows. Will Linux ever live up to its potential? [osOpinion] 5:31:56 PM

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