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- Quality products are to blame for Linux/Mac popularity
- There have been a few posts on ZDNet in the last couple days relating to Vista rollouts and available alternatives. In particular, Marc Wagner wrote "Is Vista to blame for Mac, Linux popularity?". As he noted, In the end, the conscientious IT department will view the transition from...
- Tags: Open Source, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Is Vista to blame for Mac, Linux popularity?
- A silly question, I know, but I just read Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux? and I was dumbfounded. Here's the premise:The cost of upgrading to Windows Vista is forcing more organizations to evaluate alternatives including Apple Macs and Linux for the desktop.According to the article, Capital & Regional CIO...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- What if I get hit by a bus?
- After reading Marc Wagner's post "Don’t be fooled, Linux is not free," I was struck by a few items. First and foremost, Marc is right. Linux is not a panacea. It doesn't take away the cost of doing business and it certainly requires a degree of expertise,...
- Tags: Open Source, K-12, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Linux definitely has a place in education
- But will the rest of the world follow?A few posters responding to my blog, SUSE vs. Ubuntu - first impressions, noted that they felt Linux was completely pointless in education. It wasn't so long ago that I shared their opinion. After all, 90% of the developed world uses...
- Tags: Education Technology, Open Source, OpenSUSE and Ed Tech
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- A quick partition primer
- I just finished installing OpenSUSE 10.2 on my laptop. While the process went without a hitch image gallery of the install with instructions and potential stumbling blocks to follow later today and SUSE even recognized my wireless cards immediately, I realized that a basic understanding of disk partitions would...
- Tags: Training for the masses, OpenSUSE and Ed Tech, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-01
- Is Linux right for your school?
- My colleague, Chris Dawson, has written several excellent pieces recently about Linux mostly about the latest from the Ubuntu family of products but more recently about SuSE and he has made some excellent points. The question one has to ask though in deciding whether Linux is right for your school is...
- Tags: Education Technology, K-12
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Safari for Windows! Yawn...
- So Apple finally realized that most of the world doesn't have a Mac and are probably using Windows even if they have an iPod or plan to buy an iPhone. As a result, they released the first public beta of their web browser, Safari, for Windows. Hooray, another...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- Macintosh...Help me understand why
- I can feel them...the flames...they're coming. But I have to ask this question again (yes, I've asked one very much like it before) in light of recent events. The recent events, of course, involve the release of a particular Linux distribution with a funny African sort of name...
- Tags: Apple, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-27
- Why do I only get flamed when I support Microsoft?
- A recent post in Information Week asked a similar question: Why Doesn't Microsoft Have a Cult Religion? It appeared on Digg and Ars with an even catchier tagline: "A good question: Where ARE the Microsoft fanboys?" A whole lot of us use it, many even with a great...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- How cool is virtualization? If you said "Pretty cool," you're right!
- I just finished installing Windows XP Pro on my laptop. Nothing to write home about, except that I just restarted it after an update while I continue to write this blog on the same computer. Yes, Ive just discovered the cool factor of virtualization. Im still running...
- Tags: Education Technology, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- With or without Windows, is OLPC DOA?
- Ars Technica is reporting this morning that Microsoft and OLPC are not actually working together to bring the Windows Innovation Suite to the XO the latest incarnation of OLPCs hardware. OLPC has clarified that, despite reports and a good deal of media hype (OLPC to run Windows? Say...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain't so!
- Yahoo News reported yesterday that the OLPC One Laptop Per Child and at once the darling and the redheaded stepchild of the IT and academic communities, will most likely now cost $175 instead of the $100 originally projected. More significantly, though, Nicholas Negroponte disclosed that the small laptop to...
- Tags: DigitalDivide, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- From the too-good-to-be-altruistic department
- Sure, the digital divide still exists here in the states. It took nearly an act of congress to get my high school moved into the 21st century and were busily updating our curriculum to make use of the new technology. However, in reality, about 3 quarters of US...
- Tags: Education Technology, Classroom Tech, Microsoft, DigitalDivide
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Guess how I'm writing this post?
- Im writing in Ubuntu 7.04, freshly installed on my laptop. Now I have my very own triple-boot system (Windows Vista Business, 32-bit; Windows XP Pro, 64-bit; and Ubuntu, 64-bit). The question I posed earlier this week was, "Will the latest Ubuntu distro finally provide a mainstream Windows alternative?"...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
- Will the latest Ubuntu distro finally provide a mainstream Windows alternative?
- Long hampered by driver issues especially surrounding wireless networking, Linux has failed to take off in mainstream markets. Ubuntu and its Kubuntu and Edubuntu brethren have had more success than most owing to their easy installs and smart interfaces. April 19th marks the release date for the latest...
- Tags: Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Why Linux will not displace Windows
- I firmly believe that, all else being equal, the differences between the Windows desktop, the Macintosh desktop, and the Linux desktop are negligible. With the proper applications, all three platforms will be capable of providing a satisfactory experience for any user. All three platforms have both free and...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Linux, Microsoft Windows, desktop
- Blog posts 2007-03-12
- Vista? No thanks, school says, converts Windows boxes to Linux
- Despite the hype around Microsoft Vista, some schools are not convinced its the best thing going. One northern California school has made sweeping changes to the schools IT system, converting 5,000 Windows PCS to run Linux, either as full-powered desktops or thin clients, reports Desktop Linux. Windsor, CA...
- Tags: Thin clients, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, thin client, Heather Carver, Microsoft Windows, Linux, server, Citrix Systems Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Do we want Mac in the enterprise when we have Linux?
- Larry Dignan recently posted a piece on Mac in the enterprise (The eternal question: Can Apple go enterprise?). I think a better question is actually why we would want Apple to bother with the enterprise when we have Linux? This assumes, of course, that youre in the market...
- Tags: Apple, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Russians prosecuting teacher who installed pirated Windows
- In a Goliath vs. David story, Microsoft is suing a Russian village school teacher for software piracy, reports the Associated Press. The intellectual property rights test case brought by Microsoft against Alexander Ponosov, a village school principal in the Ural Mountain region of Perm, about 620 miles east...
- Tags: Education Technology, International
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- And the battle rages goes on
- I just finished reading Chris Dawsons article "Will your students be using Linux in 2007?" and, as usual, I agree with him 100% -- until he says "Businesses who have successfully made the switch to Linux often have a culture that caters to said enthusiasts and/or have dumped enough effort...
- Tags: Linux, Apple, Hardware, K-12, Higher Ed, Funding, Open Source, Education Technology, Microsoft Windows
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
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