Our studies with respect to Linux To make a decision on migration to Linux as a desktop system, a usability evaluation is essential. By that reason, relevantive AG conducts usability studies or expert inspections of current linux applications every six to nine months. Primarily, the KDE desktop is evaluated as usability is a major concern in that project. Thanks to the close collaboration of KDE and relevantive, suggestions are affiliated and implemented in an innovative way. Comments on the results? We would like to invite you to our Forum. Linux Usability Study (July 2003) relevantive AG designed and executed a series of usability tests that included typical desktop application tasks. 60 test persons were presented with individual tests in an adapted Linux environment, a further control group of 20 test persons performed identical tasks on Windows XP. The analysis of these tests revealed which usability problems are to be expected when migrating to Linux, and which measurements and trainings are necessary to improve the usability, hence the wide acceptance of Linux as a desktop system. In order to guarantee broad accessibility, the results are published under the "Lizenz für die freie Nutzung unveränderter Inhalte" (Free Usage of Unchanged Content License). Download The Linux Usability Report is available for download: English Translation (4MB)    German Report (4MB)    English Summary KDE 3.2.0 Expert Inspection (March 2004) The major concern of this inspection was to evaluate if the problems that were identified in the usability study were improved in the KDE 3.2.0 release. The evaluation was conducted on the basis of the use cases that were utilised in the linux usability study. Download The report is available for download in German language only: Expert Inspection of KDE 3.2.0 (German version, 1,1MB) [ Linux Usability | Linux Services | Linux Methods | Linux Studies | Team ] [ Home | Profile | References | Contact | Imprint ]   © 2004 relevantive AG