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Did Open Office get revived? I thought LibreOffice was the newish hotness? Oh, and the set that wants Free as in Beer and isn't concerned with FOSS there is always Kingsoft Office.

Maybe I am not looking hard enough but I feel there needs to be more lists of software solutions. Someone in my LUG group brought my attention to http://opensourcesmall.biz/ which is a great little site (no affiliation) that gives software solutions for small businesses. Some others I find googling are http://www.icewalkers.com/ and http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/ (Czech site I just checked the google cache) For me that seems to be the most important part. If open source small business software names were as common to mom and pop places as vlc, firefox, and other free software are to us it drive linux adoption at crazy rates. This would force hardware manufactures to release their specs or get passed up on a purchase to a competitor. Other than that linux is great and I could never ask for more for free. Usually the big hurdle for people is software familiarity once you learn bash basics, if you never learn bash you usually struggle.

This is already implemented in the gringotts package. [Link to homepage seems broken).
Although I haven't investigated, it may be possible to reduce the number of files to use in an attack by studying file system access times.

The best I've seen so far is Ice Walkers, but Linux Download isn't bad either.

They're no more trapped than companies stuck with precompiled, third-party software/drivers for, say, RedHat 9 or Fedora Core 3.

Tis life, my friend.

The difference is that I can call up Google and ask for RH9:

http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/53470/Red-Hat-Linux.html

or FC3:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/

I have both RH9 and FC3 in production right now. At my last job, I believe there is still a Mandrake box with a 2.2 kernel on it running strong. The uptime flips after 500 or so days, but it works OK besides that.

You mean links like these?

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Sy stems/Kernels/MOSIX-7287.shtml
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Sy stems/Kernels/MOSIX-Grid-and-Cluster-Management-23 125.shtml
http://www.mosix.org/txt_cluster.html
http://www.tucows.com/software_detail.html?id=8473
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/530140/MO SIX.html

BTW, that's just a few. I hope they helped out. BTW, my search term in Google were "MOSIX download" without the quotation marks.

The names listed in your Gnome menu are not the names of the applications. A while back the Gnome devs recognized that Linux applications have stupid unintuitive names so they decided to give the core programs used in Gnome easy to identify aliases. It's not called "Firefox Web Browser", it's called Firefox. "Totem Movie Player" is an alias for Totem. "Text Editor" is an alias for gedit. There is no Linux app called "Instant Messenger", it's Gaim or Gabber. Go down your list of Linux names and what you find almost every time is an instance where the Gnome devs thought that the real name of the application was too stupid and non-intuitive to be listed by name, so they created an alias for it. This is the entire point of the original article: most Linux applications have stupid names.

3 things. 1 article.

1. leaf linux (or other small dedicated linux)
2. That old computer someone wants to throw away (you know the pI 233mhz with 16mb ram)

3. an extra nic.

Now surf to this article

For home users Linux really doesn't belong YET
My household happily uses a Mandrake 9.1 laptop and a Mandrake 9.1 desktop, both connected to the outside world through an ipcop firewall.
No windows partitions on any of the three boxen.
KDE, Mozilla, OpenOffice, xmms and bibletime are the only apps we regularly use.

most business do need special software, and they are almost always created to run on Windows

Depends on the business. Many businesses have apps that are custom made for them - this could easily be done on any platform. Many are now using web based apps - any platform. Some employees have a windows workstation on their desk or counter that is mostly running some text-based terminal app - eg 3270. 3270 clients exist for linux.

Ask any local Restaurant you go to.

There are linux-based restaurant POS systems out there.

I don't know what PSpice and Xilinx are. If they're windows-only apps that you need, for which no suitable linux alternative exists, then you are quite right in saying that linux is not ready for you. Just don't extend that to everyone else.

It's interesting to me that 50MB is considered "damn small" or miniscule. It must have been about six years ago that a friend of mine put together a Linux "distro" which included a few network analysis tools, all on one bootable 1.44MB floppy. I feel old :)

Music downloading? My mp3 (all legit, audiolunchbox.com, and before that emusic(before they went to their new model)) collection alone is more than quadruple my hard drive size from eight years ago.

MMORPGs? They were a Gibson style pipe-dream ten years ago (the imersive graphical ones anyways, I didn't forget about MUDs).

As I said, I don't think web apps are ready yet, but don't be so short sighted. Eventually connections speeds and processing power will result in things like this being norm.

Maybe a better model would be a java implemented (for the cross platform functionality) ROX desktop would make more sense. I dunno.

Here's some "useful" info: Scribus - Layout program similar to Adobe PageMaker

Basically:

"Scribus is a Layout program for GNU/Linux®, similar to Adobe® PageMaker(TM), QuarkXPress(TM) or Adobe® InDesign(TM), except that it is published under the GNU GPL. Currently, it is still in its early stages of development, but rapidly maturing and very useable. Already, it has the ability to layout newsletters, create corporate stationery, small posters and other documents which need flexible layout and/or the ability to output to professional quality imagesetting equipment. You can do all the typical tasks like placing and rotating text and/or images on a page, specify manual kerning of type and much more. While the goals of the program are for ease of use and simple easy to understand tools, Scribus offers support for professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, easy PDF creation, Encapsulated Postscript import/export and creation of color separations. Graphic formats which can be placed include Ecapsulated Post Script (eps), Joint Photographic Experts Group (jpeg), Portable Network Graphics (png) and XPixMap(xpm)."

Even the google cache copy seems inaccessible.. Here is the Freshmeat Project Page for Scribus 1.1.6, and I also have a link to the home page
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• Peanut Linux sounds pretty good
• Damn Small Linux
  This is a live linux distribution which means that it runs off the CD. It's supposed to be a little difficult to install try following these directions:

  To install Damn Small Linux to the HD...
  From the damn small desktop (no pun intended) ...
  Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to SU root outside X.
  Type "dsl-hdinstall" (a mod off Knoppix's knx-hdinstall)...
  Follow the prompts... (cfdisk, etc.......)
  I've done it & tested it -- works. --bosspacman

• Basic Linux might work but it might be difficult if you don't know linux very well.
• I hear RedHat's 6.0 distro is light weight too if you can find it.

Quake style controls enable the user to navigate their file system.

Red Hat have been moving, as part of this big shakeup, to remove everything non-Free from their distribution - including contributing to an open source Java, I believe.

Pine has always had licensing issues, and it's widely accpeted that Pine fans can be appeased with Mutt and something like Pine2Mutt (which is simply an import script or two and the pine.rc that comes with Mutt.)

Try wrapping html around the URL, </A> next time...

The problem as I see it is that all the examples I've ever seen of 3d desktops only seem to add confusion and don't seem to simplify anything. Oh sure, perhaps if my monitor is 60 inches wide then it might help but otherwise I still don't see it. Actually since there is more "wasted" space I could even make an argument that it makes things worse.

Sure it makes for some neat screenshots and for fun hollywood matrix type stuff in movies but unless I'm missing something it's not enhancing my productivity at all.