I’ve been in tech for a little over eight years now, and during that time I’ve had several hardware problems similar to what the writer of this article ran into when setting up a small office. Switching to Ubuntu is probably a great idea in his case, as it will also make it easier for [...]
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Microsoft Doing Happy Dance
I just read on Groklaw that popular Open Source developer and advocate Jeremy Allison has quit his position at Novell to protest the Microsoft partnership. He makes a good point in saying it really doesn’t matter what Novell does or why, they will always be the bad guys as far as the Linux crew are [...]
Novell Goes Deeper Into Microsoft Pocket
On the heels of Novell’s announcement that they will be working closely with Microsoft on interoperability comes the news that they will be forking OpenOffice.org to support Microsoft’s Open Document Format. In other words, they’ll spin off their own version of OO.o to continue to interoperate with Microsoft.
Like the previous deal, this sounds great on [...]
Linux Begins Eating Itself
And so it begins:
Linux.com - Mark Shuttleworth issues divisive invitation to openSUSE developers
Please, people. Prove me wrong.
Linux Will Eat Itself
If there’s one thing that can be said for my favorite operating system it’s that it certainly knows how to get itself into trouble. We just got through the not-ready-for-desktop-use arguments but now we’re on to licensing arguments and deals with the Beast of Redmond. In each case, some pundits are decrying it as the [...]
Sad But True
Just received from a friend.
openSUSE
And they say Linux is not ready for the desktop.
Having installed both Fedora Core 5 and SUSE Linux 10.1 recently, I have to say I was impressed with SUSE. Each step of the way, the installer probed my system for hardware and current setups and presented a list of very sane settings to use by [...]
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
No, not of the coming of the Lord.
I’m talking about a Samsung SyncMaster 940BW 19″ widescreen LCD monitor.
It is glorious.
I have more screen real estate than I did with my 17″ CRT (a given), but now I also have many times the desk availability. I can work with papers on my desk without nearly shoving [...]
Goodbye Slackware, Hello… ?
I’m dumping Slackware from the laptop today, and will probably do the same for my desktop PC sometime this week or next. In its place I’ll be installing either Fedora Core 5 or SuSE 10.
Why one of those? Because I want to start hammering on a system that I’ll be most likely to install at [...]
