Another reason to ditch Windows…
After a year and a half of fighting Vista on my Toshiba A135-S2276 I gave up. Quite simply I got sick of the problems, errors, lock ups, “security” pop-ups and general sluggishness. So to sort of future proof me, also since I figured it was easier, I bought a new hard [...]
Wandering around I was glad to see that the Linux Screw has a pretty complete list of Windows Software equivalents for Linux. I’ve used Ubuntu Linux for the past year and a half and still find times I boot back into Windows. Some cases in looking back I can understand as I still haven’t heard [...]
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As the days go on I tend to pop up shell windows with tail running so I can follow the traffic on my web server(s). Well that was all fine and good, but it got really messy following many servers. Plus straight text wasn’t very pretty. Then Dougal Cambell pointed out a [...]
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I’ve been saying this was going to happen…
“The SCO Group, Inc. (”SCO”) (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a leading provider of UNIX® software technology and mobile services, today announced that it filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. SCO’s subsidiary, SCO Operations, Inc., has also filed a petition [...]
[T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.[Groklaw]
That single small line signals the death of SCO. Their only way to make money has been illegally threatening to sue companies about UNIX patents and Copyrights. And the reason this is the death sentence for the company is that [...]
As a full convert to Ubuntu I’m continually being more and more impressed with how flexible, stable and how usable it is. I’ve played some games on Ubuntu, but I’ve never researched the bigger games. I just assumed that there really wasn’t anything. I was wrong. I found a site where [...]
Now not all users of linux are using it because its cheap. Linux happens to be a good, stable, powerful operating system. Plus with it being OpenSource, its constantly updated, has a large variety of programs that are also free, and quite often you don’t have to worry about hardware compatibility.
That said, I’ve [...]
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As one who has pretty much converted to Ubuntu (I run it dual boot on my two main desktops and haven’t switched back to Windows XP except for a short time in which I needed to use Publisher. Well it seems Ubuntu’s fans are growing fast. Today I learned that there is now [...]
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In an interview, FAA chief information officer David Bowen said he’s taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency’s Windows XP-based desktop computers and laptops. Bowen cited several reasons why he finds Google Apps attractive. “It’s a different sort of computing strategy,” he said. “It [...]
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I run Ubuntu on a couple of my machines and I love how clean they look. But some always look for a lot of flash in their Operating System. So people have upgraded to Vista for that reason alone, though I WOULD NOT suggest it. At the same time many have actually said [...]
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