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- GNU/Linux
- The operating system created in 1992 by combining the GNU system, the Linux kernel and other software. Although "Linux" is the name most widely heard, many prefer to use...
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- Microsoft pushes business users to start Windows 7 upgrades now
- I would betthat not nearly as many businesses will bite as MS wants, but that more businesses than usual will bite.RE: Microsoft pushes business users to start Windows 7 upgrades nowAs with many we are still running XP on all of our machines and Server 2003 with no money in...
- Tags: Web browsers, Quality, Microsoft Windows 7, Web browser, standards, Acid3 Test, compliant browser, web standard, IE 8, GNU/Linux, Web, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- Forget Moblin! Ubuntu Netbook Remix rocks on the Classmate
- Forget Moblin! Ubuntu Netbook Remix rocks on the ClassmateWhile I wholeheartedly agree with your accessmentI think it is very important to support up-and-coming Linux distros, because some of them, while they lag behind the more established distros overall, do have some redeeming qualities which underscore why they came about in...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Linux Distro, Moblin, Ubuntu, NBR, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, netbook, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-05-26
- A future so bright Tux needs shades
- A future so bright Tux needs shadesThe end of aggravationI agree. I'm sure the same can also be said about OS X, but for me, Ubuntu has made my computing life a pleasure again. Windows is just too much work and aggravation.RE: A future so bright Tux needs shadesAh- okay,...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, GNU/Linux, bright Tux, Tux
- Discussion threads 2008-11-26
- Desktop Unix: MacOS X and SUSE Linux
- Desktop Unix: MacOS X and SUSE LinuxcorrectThe average wintel machine runs using MBR and BIOS... which is pretty primitive compared to EFI. I guess it gets the job done though. macs use EFI. Odd eh?Choice is good but......you can't run OS X on any hardware. The choice is use...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Open Office Base, Linux, Unix, Microsoft Windows, Desktop Unix, GNU/Linux, MacOS X, Apple Mac OS, desktop, hardware, Apple Macintosh, SuSE Linux, SuSE
- Discussion threads 2008-10-21
- Google playing proprietary games with open source?
- Google playing proprietary games with open source?I'm pretty sure a company with ......a $200 billion market cap and a 50 to 1 price to earnings ratio doesn't need your advice.Just because I write a program for LINUX...Doesn't mean I must subjugate it to an open source license. As someone who...
- Tags: JCP, GNU/Linux, game, open source, Google Inc., market capitalization, proprietary game
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- 'Green IT': are we missing the bigger picture?
- 'Green IT': are we missing the bigger picture?RE: Green IT': are we missing the bigger picture?courtesy: cjm LTWhy should anyone feel defensive about "being cheap?" America and Americans are in debt to the eyeballs and have no savings because we spend the money as fast as we get it and...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, computer hardware, GNU/Linux, fossil fuel, hardware, Microsoft Windows, Green IT, greenhouse gas
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- Is Linux innovative?
- Is Linux innovative?"innovation" - bah!Just what IS innovation? I always thought that innovation is the poor stepchild to invention - i.e. If you aren't good enough to invent something new, maybe you can fiddle with something existing to "improve" it. Henry Ford had his "campouts" with Thomas Edison (and other...
- Tags: Leadership, Strategy, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., innovation, LINUX IS, Linux, GNU/Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-09-28
- Recycling apathy doesn't bode well for green tech habits
- Recycling apathy doesn't bode well for green tech habitsWindows contributes to global climate changeWhy should anyone feel defensive about "being cheap?"America and Americans are in debt to the eyeballs and have no savings because we spend the money as fast as we get it and then we borrow so we...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, computer hardware, GNU/Linux, fossil fuel, hardware, Microsoft Windows, global climate change, greenhouse gas, climate change, green technology
- Discussion threads 2007-09-04
- Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as source
- Gutmann paper cites shoddy web forum postings as sourceWindows contributes to global climate change#courtesy of: cjm LTWhy should anyone feel defensive about "being cheap?"America and Americans are in debt to the eyeballs and have no savings because we spend the money as fast as we get it and then we...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, computer hardware, fossil fuel, GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, hardware, Gutmann, global climate change
- Discussion threads 2007-09-01
- Linux Foundation cynics ask merger or takeover?
- Linux Foundation cynics ask merger or takeover?FSF not involvedThe OSDL and the Free Standards Group group merged, not OSDL and FSF. Stallman would not like this post! :-)HUH?I was wondering what Dana was talking about.The Free Standards Group is involved with LSB. The merger is presumed to promote common standards...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, GNU/Linux, open source, Linux, IBM Corp., Free Software Foundation, merger, Free Standards Group
- Discussion threads 2007-01-22
- Microsoft patches zero-day Windows Media flaw
- Microsoft patches zero-day Windows Media flawSide affect of DRM?Is this why a media player gets a higher priority than an office productivity app? Who doesn't see this as Microsoft placing the interest of their customers behind the interest of the media conglomerates? Amazing.-MikeThe same thing happeneda couple of...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Microsoft Word, Patches, Apple Inc., patch management, Back-up, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, flaw, GNU/Linux, Windows Media, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2006-12-12
- Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" alpha (Ubuntu 7.04 )
- Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" alpha (Ubuntu 7.04 )VersionAn article on a finished version, Like 6.10 Edgy Elf would be much more useful than a review of an alph version.UbuntuThis free OS is pretty good & the appearance is also nice. For a free OS like this one, actually there is...
- Tags: UNIX, Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, MSN, GNU/Linux, OS9, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 7.04, Microsoft Corp., operating system
- Discussion threads 2006-12-11
- Good news for Linux: Microsoft, Novell pact in trouble
- David Berlind is reporting that all is not well in what Dana Gardner called the "Fox marries chicken" deal between Microsoft and Novell earlier this month.This is a good thing, say many GNU/Linux supporters.[poll=8] Free software supporters are already working to undercut the deal, which brought Novell several hundred million...
- Tags: Linux, GNU/Linux, General, Licenses, Patents, Community, Microsoft, Programming
- Blog posts 2006-11-22
- Flash Player 9 Beta for Linux is available
- Just got word from Mike that the Flash Player 9 beta is now available on Adobe Labs.Update: I just saw that Tinic Uro has a great post about the release. His intro: To quote someone well known, hell froze over and we finally released a beta of the GNU/Linux version...
- Tags: Flash, GNU/Linux
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- GNU/Linux distros get OK to distribute Java
- Here in San Francisco, as I returned to my hotel from dinner with Redmonk's James Governor last evening, I bumped into Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phiipps who himself was just fresh off a flight from DebConf 6 Debian Conference in Oaxtepec, Mexico where, because of that event's coincidental...
- Tags: Java
- Blog posts 2006-05-16
- GPL, not Linux violations found by Welte
- GPL, not Linux violations found by WelteHow about Linux-GNU?GNU never caught on as a "marketing term" (probably the image of Stallman didn't help). Everyone flocks to the word "Linux", so lets call it Linux-GNU!Nah, just LinuxLinux, or a Linux distribution. Whilst Stallman wants his place in the sun (and probably...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, kernel, GNU/Linux system, GNU/Linux, Linux, GPL
- Discussion threads 2005-03-17
- Don't call this blog open source
- Peter Brown is the new executive director of the Free Software Foundation. In the first of what I hope will be many interviews with ZDNet, he asks that we change the name of this blog:Open Source is a term that was created to mask the ideals of Software Freedom established...
- Tags: software, GNU/Linux
- Blog posts 2005-02-18
- Group aims to smooth kinks out of Linux
- Group aims to smooth kinks out of LinuxLSB, or not to be, THAT is the question.Notice how Debian is nowhere to be seen? That's because they are hard at work creating a NON-standard fork of Linux. I'm glad to see that the smaller Linux distros are teaming with number 3...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, GNU/Linux, Debian, Linsux, Mandrake, Linux, LSB, kink
- Discussion threads 2004-11-17
- A Quality-of-Service Enhanced Socket API in GNU/Linux
- With the increase in available network bandwidth and reduction in network latency, more emphasis has been placed on end-host QoS to provide quality of service guarantees for distributed real-time applications, such as video streaming servers, video conferencing applications, and VoIP applications. End-host QoS requires support from the underlying Operating System...
- Tags: QoS, Network, API, GNU/Linux, End-host QoS, Networking
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