Jono Bacon (great name!) takes a look at the reasons why people *say* they aren't moving to the Linux Desktop, and shows some to be a little on the dodgy side in Breaking down barriers to Linux desktop adoption
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2006-02-27
2006-02-26
Read about the town of SteamBoat Springs adoption of OSS in Rocky Mountain high for open source
2006-02-25
Wow, if this wasn't just about what happened in our house the night before "she" arrived, how could Nitrozac and Snaggy know??? MacBook P0Rn
2006-02-24
My first posting from the new Macbook Pro, it's incredibly fast, most apps take less than a single icon jump to open and be usable, even creaky old Photoshop runs speedily enough in Rosetta. Much more later.
2006-02-23
Novell's Podcast, the inaugral show: Novell Open Audio
In our first episode, host Ted Haeger introduces Novell Open Audio. We then take a look at iFolder with Brady Anderson and Calvin Gaisford. Finally, Guy Lunardi provides us an update on Novell Linux Desktop.
Heres one for the "Dell is cheaper than Apple for a laptop" crowd: Updating the MacBook Pro-Dell comparison shows that a comparable setup from Dell only saves you about $18.00 bucks and that's before you steal, er, re-use a copy of Office from work...
2006-02-21
Finally a use for MSN, you can check for the lowest Gas Prices in your area.
Yikes, 60M lines of code!? I had deja vu all over again reading A History of GroupWise and remembering installing GW on 6,000 desktops at Medtronic, shiver...
2006-02-20
2006-02-17
Instead of playing around defining open document standards, Korea Plans to Build a Linux City, and a University!
2006-02-15
Time to revisit Miguel's great paper: Let's Make Unix Not Suck
Time to revisit Miguel's great paper: Let's Make Unix Not Suck
2006-02-14
Don't think we can get Windows apps running on a Mac without a VMWare-style product? Then check out Darwine - windows apps on a Mac *without windows*
Thanks Apple! Apple shipping MacBook Pros with faster processors
I love this, someone takes on the Dell marketing beast, and asks Does Dell beat MacBook Pro on price?
Wow this is as embarassing as it can get, the concept of FanBoy is defined clearly in this article: MIKE WENDLAND: Apple iMac is simply the best
2006-02-10
From our friends over at IBM, this Redbook is a guide for System Administrators who are doing a Solaris to Linux Migration, and who isn't?
2006-02-09
Build a SAN on the cheap
2006-02-05
At the risk of sounding like a _total_ fanboy, the Power, er, MacBook Pro should be shipping the 15th, and I should have it by the 17th.
Check out what the ComputerWorld guys said about the machine, in "Fast? This Baby Cooks"
2006-02-04
2006-02-03
I guess that it's a combination of Open and Proprietary competitive pressures that prompts VMware to make server product free as they apparently will give away GSX Server for free download next week.
For those of you who really MUST run that diseased browser from the land of insufficient light, (I mean IE) at least you can make it more useful with the Foxie enhancement, it gives you a lot of things including tabbed browsing.
Now if I could just get our expenses people to dump the system that forces me to do expenses in IE, I'd be happy.
2006-02-01
I think it's good news that Red Hat Plans a Linux Distro for MacBook Pro, but I (as a Novell/SUSE guy) don't want to use "Little Red" on MY box, so I'm publicly asking the OpenSUSE team to get cracking on this!
