[url]http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/10/rethinking-the-linux-distribution.html?page=1[/url]

[quote=Slashdot]"ONLamp.com is running an interesting article about rethinking how the community distributes Linux and the open source applications that often come with Linux. The author isn't arguing that Linux needs to become a full blown web OS over night but instead, asking if the community should be considering 'Software as a Service' and what he means by that is perhaps many of the open source applications that run on Linux should be available through a browser. The reasons for this are obvious, the code is open so anyone could host it, it would be platform independent so anyone could use it and it might attract more users to the Linux environment. The obvious note here is that many of the enterprise software makers are switching to Software as a Service, shouldn't the open source community investigate the possibility of a Web OS?"[/quote]

This coming just days after an important announcement made by Red Hat that it plans to serve applications through the browser to a unified network-based desktop.

[QUOTE=Slashdot]"Red Hat announced this week at their San Diego Red Hat Summit that they are planning to compete with Microsoft on the desktop by building an 'online desktop' that will integrate local data with online services. Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens argued that: 'To user the desktop metaphor is dead. We don't believe that recreating a Windows paradigm in an open source model will do anything to advance the productivity in the life of users.'"[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2189541/red-hat-build-online-desktop[/url]

Thoughts?