Posts under ‘Linux’

Okay, last Linux advocacy post for a while. I know I’ve mentioned it a lot lately, but the links just keep coming and a few of you have asked me for a little more info. Part of it is frustration with Windows and part of it is general curiosity.
Now I give you Dan Martin’s “Things [...]

I’ve been meaning to link a Max Barry blog post for a couple weeks now — Danger: Linux Advocacy Ahead. I found out a couple years ago that Max runs Linux on his home PC and does his writing on OpenOffice.org. By then I’d already been doing the same for some time, and it gave [...]

The Perfect Desktop series is now running the Ubuntu 7.04 Perfect Setup article, which will help you install Ubuntu as a desktop replacement for a Windows system. If you’ve been wanting to try Linux, this will go a long way to getting you set up with a running, productive system.

Want to help Linux exposure? Help put Linux (and its mascot, Tux) on a car in this month’s Indy 500 at Tux 500. I gave them a little something out of my PayPal stash, and if anyone out there feels as strongly about supporting Linux as I, this is a cheap and easy way to [...]

The latest cool news out of the tech sector is Dell has reached an agreement with Canonical, the distributors of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, to provide desktop and laptop PC’s with Ubuntu preinstalled.
Depending on the cost and what the hardware availability is, I may rethink that urge to purchase an Apple MacBook Pro for my [...]

And rolls. All night. Why?
Because they’re going to sell PCs loaded up with Linux.
Now we see how they sell, and what kind of games Microsoft tries to play with their OEM agreements.
Update (from comments): Dell says not necessarily. Maybe the Microsoft lawyers got to them after all.

HowtoForge is running a series of articles explaining in detail how to install Linux, starting with The Perfect Desktop – Part 1: Fedora Core 6. If you’ve ever wanted to take Linux for a test drive, are interested in dumping Windows on your PC, or have an old machine you want to experiment on, but [...]

Apparently not the nearly 50,000 people who are asking Dell to make their systems available with Linux pre-installed. Dell ostensibly created a website called Dell Ideastorm, a support portal with a Digg-like interface for people to make requests and post ideas. Well in the lead are requests for Linux, requests for no OS installed, and [...]

This list of 101 reasons Linux is better than Windows is really only 36 pieces long, but it’s still interesting reading and has a lot of good reasons.
Boil it all down, though, and it’s simple:
1) If you’re a hardcore gamer, buy Windows. You’re going to be spending a metric assload of cash on hardware and [...]

Wonder why some kids are stupid? Because stupid adults are teaching them, thus perpetuating the problem.
A big example is this letter to parents from a teacher who got their facts wrong in class (the teacher’s arrogance only makes it worse), which has been circulated around the Internet for some time now. But Boing Boing has [...]