Ubuntu Plans Eye Candy for Desktop Computers and Beyond  —  What would it take to get the hundreds of millions of desktop computer users to switch from Windows to Linux?  —  Low cost and armies of devoted techies have not been enough.  So the people behind Ubuntu—a dialect of Linux— have a new idea: eye candy.

Source:   Bits

Author:   Saul Hansell

Link:   http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/ubuntu-plans…