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I've been using Windows since my folks dumped our Tandy 1000 in the trash. As the years rolled on I found myself interested being a part of the software creation process rather than just being a user. Once I got to college, I decided to set up a server or two and ran a Jedi Outcast game server; but the extra hardware I had lying around to piece together a server just wasn't up to Windows standards, and my poor game server just couldn't convince Windows to let it have some precious memory and CPU time, so I snagged Mandrake. Ever since I've found little quirks about Linux (I use Fedora now) that just appeal to me over Windows, especially in a development environment. Of course, the fact that it's free helps.

My name is Mayhem, and I'm a software engineer.

Think free. linux.org

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I don't understand why people still say that Linux is not user-friendly. Complaints

http://www.addonshop.com/
http://www.sub300.com/
http://www.linare.com/
http://www.linspire.com/
http://www.linuxcertified.com/
http://www.microtelpc.com/
http://www.outpost.com/
http://shoprcubed.com/
http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm
http://www.walmart.com/
http://www.xandros.com/
http://tuxmobil.org/
http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html

When I started using linux for the first time, I first visited these sites to get my problems solved. I list some of them below.

http://linuxquestions.org/
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/
http://linux.org/
http://tldp.org/

Kind of like this article from 5 years ago, or this one from 3 years ago, or this one from Dec. 2000.

In 5 years, there will be an in every garage. Yawn...

The sad thing is not that a lot of people don't know what spyware or DRM are, or why they're bad. The sad thing is that a lot of people do, yet nothing is really accomplished. The cnet article is good because it raises many important points about the nature of Vista and trusted computing. And it will sit on that server with no fanfare. This will not be an important story to anyone, newspapers will not pick it up and nor will computing magazines.

We will get nowhere beyond this article, which takes no stand; makes only polite suggestions and queries.

``Something is fishy here. Should we be concerned?" A shallow question with hollow convictions and the full-bodied echo of defeat.

Trusted Computing is not about security. We know what it's really about, it's about IP. You don't need an unjustified mess to be secure. Security is just the excuse. It's about patents and trademarks and copyrights. It's not about security, because security benefits people. Trusted Computing benefits companies. It's about money and control. It's about their control over our money.

The article will sit there and rot and no one will take it further, because no one wants to risk offending the advertisers. No one wants to risk slowing a cashflow.

These kinds of things are vital, important issues. They concern our very rights as citizens and as human beings. The important part of Intellectual Property is not the latter, it's the former, it's about control of the former. Companies -- inhuman, non-being concepts on paper and ink -- subvert the rights of living people to think and explore.

We can do nothing. How do you adhere to your morals and convictions and fight something that will adhere to nothing? We are powerless to affect change and every day more restraints and ludicrous laws are passed on us and our rights are signed away for profit. For the benefit of people already in life's favor.

But it's not a big deal, right? When you're allowed to read a book is a not a big deal. What you're not allowed to say is not a big deal. What you're allowed to even think is not a big deal.

It's so depressing.

You can listen to audio clips of Linus Torvalds pronouncing the name at http://www.linux.org/info/, towards the bottom of the page.

Actually, I haven't seen it. But I did read Linus Torvalds' description of how the Linux penguin should look full on herring, and not like a randy penguin. That was my first run-in with the phrase. This may have been before Austin Powers, but I really don't know for sure.

http://www.linux.org/info/penguin.html

I believe that death can be welcomed, expecially to the sheer quanity of linux distros.

Of the 409 nearly identical Linux distributions cataloged at http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html ,
I believe 400 should probably be killed murdered folded spindled and mutilated with permanent life time breathing bans for any one caught seeking a new distro out.

Many point out, you have to try the distro before you can evaluate if you like it. My favorites are slackware, ubuntu, solaris, and suse.

Microsoft has 11 distinctly different distros, and look at the hell they go through with all their code.

The average Linux interested person has not 9 distributions to choose from but 409.
Is it any wonder why average user can't seem to put one of the 409 on the home desktop?

I believe adoption and acceptance if Linux on the home desktop would be quantum leaps ahead of where it is now if a little butchering were to some how happen.

The First and a very formidable roadblock to Linux adoption is the quantities of Distros to pick from, I guess the average home Linux user feels beguiled when tasked with picking the correct distro not to help, the Linux community just nods and smiles as if to them, it's just not important to the meaning of life to bring order the chaos.

Imagine this; 400 slightly different windows versions with nearly the same names. XP pro -1 XP lite, Xp light, XP, lxp, Exppepro, Xp-Peppy-pro, XP-Porn master, XP shockwave edition, windows 2000, windowsXp2, windows200Xp, Windows system 5 xp single user SMP, windows 2003xp.311, trs80-xp-pro, amiga-xp, Xp-Java, windows 3.11 enterprise server pro, windows 2000 millennium, windows-cpm86 edition, and last but not least windows xp pro fro the Cray with porn storage module.

Thankfully Microsoft makes enough bugs with the 11 os'es they have their name.
MS DOS 6.xx, Windows 95, Windows NT Workstation 4.xx, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2003 Server

The tangible affects of so many distros is hard to see, but I believe it affects focus or lack of focus on packages which bears results as better or worse code, features, security, compatibility, emulations, interfaces, code reviews etc..

Is their really a need for so many, or is it something else?

I recently asked most of my friends which Linux was favored by them amongst Linux distros, the answer was a resounding unanimous OS-X. :)
I hope many of these unkempt, un-washed spam of un-maintained and pointless distros evaporate and their sites go dark so that others may be embraced and shine over the mediocrity we have today.

--
Please remember to have your non domesticated Linux distro's Spayed or Neutered today!

The major computer OEMs such as Dell, HP, and
Gateway are refusing to offer CONSUMERS a
non-Microsoft choice.
These OEMs are anti-competitve and
anti-consumer-choice. They continue to maintain Microsoft's desktop
monopoly.

I suggest not doing business with these companies until they offer a serious non-Microsoft choice to CONSUMERS.

Here are some companies that DO offer consumers a choice.

http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm
http://www.microtelpc.com/
http://www.linuxcertified.com/

http://www.outpost.com/ (search for linspire)
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=395 1&path=0%3A3944%3A3951
http://www.sub300.com/Skins/greyTech/greyTech_inde x.aspx
http://www.linare.com/
http://www.linspire.com/featured_partner/featured_ partner.php
http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html

More importantly, Yes, it is.

Plenty of Linux experts ready to answer your questions, all you have to do is ask.

Yes it is. http://www.linux.org/dist/

Penguins are actual animal. Linus Torvalds did not invent them.

You must be new here. FYI, linux is an operating system. It probides and abstraction... well, as you said.

A rather telling indicator of what many employers think about ms office is:

"Please do NOT send your resume as an attachment; rather, please send as text, in the body of the message."

Some don't even want .pdf files. Why? In almost every instance (ok, in a number of them) where I've seen this request, they specifically say this measure is to avoid a virus attack. Some places even ask for fax or paper resumes. So much for anti-virus tools and ms office, particularly with ms word having vb and other useless junk turned on by default. It will be QUITE a while before all those previously endangered installs are cleaned up by IT departments, either due to serendipity or some major patch that ONLY turns off the dangerous features and which doesn't require a 550 MB download to do shit ms should have fixed before letting the malignant horse out the gate.

As for Open Source apps, yeh, I think we need something that showcases the BEST, not the half-baked stuff. One section for purely command line stuff, and one for GUI/Eye-Candy stuff. I think a blending of Linux.org and Sourceforge:

http://www.linux.org/apps/index.html

http://sourceforge.net/index.php

but with thumbnails of the stuff showing something other than a desktop and kicker. The activity stats need to be there, and it would be nice if many of these corporations that secretly crave cheaper software costs would actually openly and/or silently donate via PayPal or some mechanism they consider to be low-risk to them.

Actually, these corporations and donors should take the politics out of the process, remove the chance of ms infiltrating them, and make the donations easier and pain-free (relatively) by setting up a line item in their budget, sort of to help foster or steer the development of a given or favored project.

Many sites do ask for donations, but it's saddening that so many promising projects wither or languish and then die due to lack of interest or worse, a lack of resources. I don't propose that every bottom-feeding/leech-like weed of a project get funded. There needs to be merit, uniqueness, and viability and future sustainability in a supported project for it to receive funding.

Many Open Source and mixed/dual license apps, however, could signal the death knell for many proprietary, stodgy, intransigent companies which make nice, but astronomically (elitism?, cache? status?, exclusivity?, branding?) priced apps and suites that could be broken down into low-, medium- and upper-end pricing to gain a bigger footprint in the market. Maybe they could even do what some of the food and tire makers do: spin off or distribute excess lots or lesser-capable versions of a product through another entity or subdivision. Not every company can afford to divide this way, but the current and foreseeable economy will continue forcing companies and inventors to reinvent themselves or die at the hands of steadily improving free (cost or licensing) and proprietary (low-cost and costly) software.

Another way software can be exposed is simply if IBM and others finally pull the ms probiscus out of their rears. We need, DESPERATELY, some major companies with backbone who'll create or support an infrastructure through which low-cost laptops can be deployed for rent, lease, sale, or barter (social work, tutoring, community cleanup, use your imagination) and which have Open Source-friendly tools loaded on them. I'm not talking about 2 GHz, nor 400 MHz laptops. They could be highly-optimized 800 MHz-1 GHz laptops (how many hundreds of thousands of these things must be still in boxes, in inventory, or going to secondary markets, or returned and destroyed rather than kept floating on the market?) meant for kids to use at school, on the bus, and in other places. They're lugging some 15-25 pounds of books now, and the paper industry needs to be forced down or compelled to take their monkeys off the spines of grow

Download the hack here,

http://www.linux.org/

Windows: It works; easy to install, easy to use, easy to update

After 15 years trying to believe that, using every version from 2.0 to XP, my experience says different: Windows works only sometimes, and it often depends on the phase of the moon and the alignment of the planets. A product with notoriously problematic installs, for which one can do nothing but pray, is not easy to install. (Oh, wait, your copy came pre-installed, right?) Lucky, I'll grant, but not easy. A product that fails in ever more creative ways through nothing more than regular use is not easy to use. The only thing Windows has going for it is the ease of updating, but even that's hit-and-miss as far as creating unforseen conflicts and interactions is concerned.

Linux: It sometimes works; install is hell on some of them (gentoo?), it would be waaay to hard for non-technical people to use, installing extra hardware or software features often requires recompiling the kernel, not something an ordinary user wants to do, and the list just goes on...

Even the worst distro works consistently once it's made to work at all. If distros like Gentoo and Slackware are your only exposure to Linux, your experience with Linux is greatly skewed. Try a few of the modern home desktop distros like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linspire, and Mepis, and quit pretending that intermediate and expert distros are meant for novice home users. Recompiling the kernel is something meant only for source-based distros such as Gentoo; with most distros, new features are as simple as installing a new pre-compiled kernel or module, and that's as easy as installing a new game or toy program. Linux is definitely ready for the home, but only if you choose one meant for home users; choosing an advanced Linux distro for home use is like choosing Windows Advanced Server Datacenter Edition for a simple home computer.

Mac: easy to use, expensive as hell

I agree. If the Macintosh ever was "the computer for the rest of us," it certainly isn't priced like it is.

Unix: see linux

See Linux, which, by the way, is only crap if you use the wrong tool for the wrong job.

Linux

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releasing the code for a product that handles money is probably not the wisest of ideas...

Really, it's just basic journalism. Something slashdot clearly knows absolutely bupkus about.

Caldera? ^^

Actually that was surprising arrogant of him. It suggests that he feels he has nothing to learn by studying alternative designs wrt to their realized performance.

There was certainly a time when Linux did have a lot to learn from FreeBSD (but I would say that 2.6 essentially ended that).

For example, it is well known that Matt Dillon (then of FreeBSD) advised the linux kernel team on how to fix their VM, and further that FreeBSD's Alan Cox helped dig them out of the VM mess they made when attempting to implement those ideas.

(http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2000-05/msg00 41 9.html)

The subtle subtext of Linus's commentary is his belief in a monoculture. "One kernel to rule them all." This very much mirrors the distinction in focus that I perceive between the linux community and the BSD community in general. The latter is focused much much more on exploring different Kernel architecture decisions whereas the former is much much more focused on exploring different userland structures.

There are some really radical conceptual differences between the Kernels in NetBSD (BGL), FreeBSD 5 (Fine-grained mutexes), Dragonfly (Serializing Tokens, cpu-localization), FreeBSD 4 (highly-optimized uniprocessor performance w/ BGL smp)

yeah, didn't everyone hear? if you don't update your computer with the right security patch it's your own fault.

seriously dude "All of these exploits have been patched by Microsoft already"? not quite

From the announcement: "The decrease in revenue in the second quarter of fiscal year 2005 from the comparable quarter of the prior year was primarily due to continued competitive pressures on the Company's UNIX products and services."

In other words, "We lost money because of our neverending, frivolous lawsuit against IBM."

Agreed. At the very least, this needs a small description of each distro, like you find at Linux.org. Primary language, purpose (firewall, general, app development, etc). This appears to be a good BT place to get what you already know about.

Well, that's it then. Since my hobbist software development budget is approximately zero - I'm going to have to give up on Windows Mobile development. [emphasis added]

As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid? Is this fair? ... One thing you do do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software. We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. Most directly, the thing you do is theft. Bill Gates, An Open Letter to Hobbyists, February 3, 1976.

It has been thirty and you still can't realize that you are non grata? Your patience is unbelievable but why won't you just get over it and go somewhere else where people actually want you? Crazy idea, isn't it?

The installation lures you into thinking all is going well until it hits you with OpenBSD's most reliable security method: the Dumb Sysadmin Prevention System . In short, OpenBSD's install is so hard that you need to be genius to complete it, thus eliminating the cause of the majority of security issues -- dumb sysadmins.

Because unfortunatelly and for the embarrasment of the Linux community. Suse is hardly seen as a distro with good customer support.

However many Linux users are more than willing to spend their free time to help you out migrate.

First thing buy a few cheap Live-CDs to find out which distro picks up the wifi.
Check the wifi itself is OK.

There one of many online shops that sells cheap Linux CDs - like OSDisc.com
They cost about few dollars each.
Make sure you include a few classic Live CDs such as:

* Knoppix
* Kanotix
* Slax
* Mandriva - old name Mandrake (know to be good at hardware detection)

Check out forums:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/

Check out a Linux User group near you:
http://www.linux.org/groups/

If you end up liking Mandriva, their support is better and for a small subscription fee you can join their "Club" to get help.

Commercial distros such as Xandros specially and Linspire are known to have very excellent customer support. But I've never had direct experience this is what I keep hearing.

For Debian systems Libranet is known to have very good customer support also.

If all this is confusing, just make a list of what you need and I will try my best to help you out.

• Any attempt to play a song on your iPod will cause it to explode, releasing fumes that smell exactly like cannabis. Just as the police are driving past you.
• You wil find out your hard disk, that you thought was faithful to you all these years, has been lying to you all along
• While letting your girlfriend play with your cell phone, your ex and three most attractive female plantic friends will decide to call you all at once, after not calling you for months on end. Not only will your girlfriend break up with you, but she will be so ride to your exes and platoncis that they'll nevercall you again either.
• That girl you always liked who is a Gold digger will call you up and ask you out on a date to the most expensive restuarant in town. After agreeing to pay for the entire dinner and going there to meet her, you will find out that not only is she now engaged to be married, but also has gained 50 pounds since the last time you saw her.
• You find out that xanga.com runs on Microsoft IIS instead of A real operating system

Microsoft MUST "crash" for supporting the Gay Agenda!

MAKE MICROSOFT GET OUT OF GAY POLITICS OR MAKE THEM CEASE TO EXIST! SEND A MESSAGE TO EVERY OTHER CORPORATION IN AMERICA THAT SUPPORTING HETEROPHOBIA WILL BE THEIR END!

http://www.nodnc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=ar ticle&sid=293

There's a VERY easy way to stop MUCH of the Microsoft supported liberal garbage, simply notify Microsoft that because of their financial and name support of liberal corruption that you are going to openly publicize and promote freeware replacements to their software products.

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http://www.linux.org/

MS Office replacement (to replace MS Office)
http://www.openoffice.org/

WEB Server products (to Replace MS IIS Server)
http://www.apache-asp.org/

Linux Applications (many are free) (additional free applications)
http://www.linux.org/apps/index.html

Web Mail replacement for MS Exchange
http://www.squirrelmail.org/

PHP-Nuke Content Management System
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Combatting Microsoft Liberal Media Corruption through MSNBC, NBC, and MSN

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or 503-443-7070.

Additional PR contacts can be seen here (do NOT accept any excuses, THEY SUPPORT MSNBC AND NOTHING BUT STOPPING THE LIBERAL RANTS IS ACCEPTABLE. PERIOD!!)

Microsoft MUST "crash" for supporting the Gay Agenda!

MAKE MICROSOFT GET OUT OF GAY POLITICS OR MAKE THEM CEASE TO EXIST! SEND A MESSAGE TO EVERY OTHER CORPORATION IN AMERICA THAT SUPPORTING HETEROPHOBIA WILL BE THEIR END!

http://www.nodnc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=ar ticle&sid=293

There's a VERY easy way to stop MUCH of the Microsoft supported liberal garbage, simply notify Microsoft that because of their financial and name support of liberal corruption that you are going to openly publicize and promote freeware replacements to their software products.

FREE OS - Linux (to replace Windows)
http://www.linux.org/

MS Office replacement (to replace MS Office)
http://www.openoffice.org/

WEB Server products (to Replace MS IIS Server)
http://www.apache-asp.org/

Linux Applications (many are free) (additional free applications)
http://www.linux.org/apps/index.html

Web Mail replacement for MS Exchange
http://www.squirrelmail.org/

PHP-Nuke Content Management System
http://phpnuke.org/

Combatting Microsoft Liberal Media Corruption through MSNBC, NBC, and MSN

Let Microsoft know that because THEY have their name associated with NBC / MSNBC / MSN that you will stop buying their products in the future, but that many of the great opensource (i.e. FREE) products below that work as Microsoft replacements will be promoted to friends, family, and businesses everywhere.

U.S.-based news media needing information on topics not specifically addressed in the list below should contact the Waggener Edstrom Rapid Response Team at
rrt@wagged.com
or 503-443-7070.

Additional PR contacts can be seen here (do NOT accept any excuses, THEY SUPPORT MSNBC AND NOTHING BUT STOPPING THE LIBERAL RANTS IS ACCEPTABLE. PERIOD!!)

There's a VERY easy way to stop MUCH of the Microsoft supported liberal garbage, simply notify Microsoft that because of their financial and name support of liberal corruption that you are going to openly publicize and promote freeware replacements to their software products. FREE OS - Linux (to replace Windows) http://www.linux.org/ MS Office replacement (to replace MS Office) http://www.openoffice.org/ WEB Server products (to Replace MS IIS Server) http://www.apache-asp.org/ Linux Applications (many are free) (additional free applications) http://www.linux.org/apps/index.html Web Mail replacement for MS Exchange http://www.squirrelmail.org/ PHP-Nuke Content Management System http://phpnuke.org/ Combatting Microsoft Liberal Media Corruption through MSNBC, NBC, and MSN Let Microsoft know that because THEY have their name associated with NBC / MSNBC / MSN that you will stop buying their products in the future, but that many of the great opensource (i.e. FREE) products below that work as Microsoft replacements will be promoted to friends, family, and businesses everywhere. U.S.-based news media needing information on topics not specifically addressed in the list below should contact the Waggener Edstrom Rapid Response Team at rrt@wagged.com or 503-443-7070. Additional PR contacts can be seen here (do NOT accept any excuses, THEY SUPPORT MSNBC AND NOTHING BUT STOPPING THE LIBERAL RANTS IS ACCEPTABLE. PERIOD!!) http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.asp

There's a VERY easy way to stop MUCH of the Microsoft supported liberal garbage, simply notify Microsoft that because of their financial and name support of liberal corruption that you are going to openly publicize and promote freeware replacements to their software products. FREE OS - Linux (to replace Windows) http://www.linux.org/ MS Office replacement (to replace MS Office) http://www.openoffice.org/ WEB Server products (to Replace MS IIS Server) http://www.apache-asp.org/ Linux Applications (many are free) (additional free applications) http://www.linux.org/apps/index.html Web Mail replacement for MS Exchange http://www.squirrelmail.org/ PHP-Nuke Content Management System http://phpnuke.org/ Combatting Microsoft Liberal Media Corruption through MSNBC, NBC, and MSN Let Microsoft know that because THEY have their name associated with NBC / MSNBC / MSN that you will stop buying their products in the future, but that many of the great opensource (i.e. FREE) products below that work as Microsoft replacements will be promoted to friends, family, and businesses everywhere. U.S.-based news media needing information on topics not specifically addressed in the list below should contact the Waggener Edstrom Rapid Response Team at rrt@wagged.com or 503-443-7070. Additional PR contacts can be seen here (do NOT accept any excuses, THEY SUPPORT MSNBC AND NOTHING BUT STOPPING THE LIBERAL RANTS IS ACCEPTABLE. PERIOD!!) http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.asp

There's a VERY easy way to stop MUCH of the Microsoft supported liberal garbage, simply notify Microsoft that because of their financial and name support of liberal corruption that you are going to openly publicize and promote freeware replacements to their software products.

FREE OS - Linux (to replace Windows)
http://www.linux.org/

MS Office replacement (to replace MS Office)
http://www.openoffice.org/

WEB Server products (to Replace MS IIS Server)
http://www.apache-asp.org/

Linux Applications (many are free) (additional free applications)
http://www.linux.org/apps/index.html

Web Mail replacement for MS Exchange
http://www.squirrelmail.org/

PHP-Nuke Content Management System
http://phpnuke.org/

***

Combatting Microsoft Liberal Media Corruption through MSNBC, NBC, and MSN

Let Microsoft know that because THEY have their name associated with NBC / MSNBC / MSN that you will stop buying their products in the future, but that many of the great opensource (i.e. FREE) products below that work as Microsoft replacements will be promoted to friends, family, and businesses everywhere.

U.S.-based news media needing information on topics not specifically addressed in the list below should contact the Waggener Edstrom Rapid Response Team at
rrt@wagged.com
or 503-443-7070.

Additional PR contacts can be seen here (do NOT accept any excuses, THEY SUPPORT MSNBC AND NOTHING BUT STOPPING THE LIBERAL RANTS IS ACCEPTABLE. PERIOD!!)
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.asp

There's a VERY easy way to stop MUCH of the Microsoft supported liberal garbage, simply notify Microsoft that because of their financial and name support of liberal corruption that you are going to openly publicize and promote freeware replacements to their software products.

FREE OS - Linux (to replace Windows)
http://www.linux.org/

MS Office replacement (to replace MS Office)
http://www.openoffice.org/

WEB Server products (to Replace MS IIS Server)
http://www.apache-asp.org/

Linux Applications (many are free) (additional free applications)
http://www.linux.org/apps/index.html

Web Mail replacement for MS Exchange
http://www.squirrelmail.org/

PHP-Nuke Content Management System
http://phpnuke.org/

***

Combatting Microsoft Liberal Media Corruption through MSNBC, NBC, and MSN

Let Microsoft know that because THEY have their name associated with NBC / MSNBC / MSN that you will stop buying their products in the future, but that many of the great opensource (i.e. FREE) products below that work as Microsoft replacements will be promoted to friends, family, and businesses everywhere.

U.S.-based news media needing information on topics not specifically addressed in the list below should contact the Waggener Edstrom Rapid Response Team at
rrt@wagged.com
or 503-443-7070.

Additional PR contacts can be seen here (do NOT accept any excuses, THEY SUPPORT MSNBC AND NOTHING BUT STOPPING THE LIBERAL RANTS IS ACCEPTABLE. PERIOD!!)
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.asp

And all this time I thought the Linux slogan was "World Domination"

Ex parte refers to a motion or petition by or for one party. An ex parte judicial proceeding is on where the opposing party has not received notice nor is present.

From linux.org:

Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world.

From linux.com:

Linux is an operating system.

From wikipedia:

The term Linux strictly refers to the Linux kernel, but is commonly used to describe entire Unix-like operating systems (also known as GNU/Linux) that are based on the Linux kernel combined with libraries and tools from the GNU project. Linux distributions often bundle large quantities of software with the core system.

Oh my, would not that be funny if a search for Yankee Group or Laura DiDio were to lead to linux.org!

Oh my, would not that be funny if a search for Yankee Group or Laura DiDio were to lead to linux.org!

Oh my, would not that be funny if a search for Yankee Group or Laura DiDio were to lead to linux.org!

Linux on Laptops is a great resource for how-tos on getting your specific model of laptop working, there are some other sites as well (linux.org), and while they aren't the best updated they helped me at least get linuxs working on my D600 very well. Also its a good spot to check to see if you particular laptop model is generally supported.

MIT is currently developing $100 computers for children growing up in third world countries. Nicholas Negroponte, of the MIT Media Lab, enthused, "When the kids bring them home and open them up, it's the brightest light source in the home". Mr. Negroponte was uneasily silent when questioned about things which are more essential to living like food, clean water, freely available and affordable medicine he could only weakly respond "It comes with linux pre-installed!"

The Gnome/KDE swap is (almost) funny. Anyone else strangely aroused by this dog?

Linus Torvalds had the crowd at the VFW hall in Keokuk, Iowa mesmerized as he spoke on a wide variety of subjects - from 64 bit support in the kernel to what it was like being married to the former karate champion of Finland. The KILUG members let out a collective gasp, however, when Torvalds, asked to sign 5-year-old Seth Cronchman's stuffed penguin, held it up and asked the crowd: 'Don't you think its time to get rid of this stupid little bird?'.

Read the full story here.

Your portrayal of the situation in Brazil is at the very least unfair.

The Brazilian government is spending on developing the code base that will save them millions, but I'm sure government management software does not make Slashdot headlines like "a tool for hacking GTK+". Migrating to a Free Software platform does not involve only installing Linux distros; migrating the actual systems that run on top of the platform is the most substantial work.

Brazilian involvement with Free Software started in my home state, Rio Grande do Sul, where the state government started a big push for free software in its IT agency. The systems of the state's public bank were migrated to free software, and its very pleasant sight to see Tux in the ATM's wallpapers. Incidentally, it is also in Rio Grande do Sul that the International Forum on Free Software takes place (and where the World Social Forum was created). The party who was in state government when these initiatives took place has now won the federal elections, so these developments are now starting to take place in national scale. Brazil spends billions every year in proprietary software licenses -- yes, spend money installing free software is a great move, especially in the long run.

In my personal experience as a Brazilian from Rio Grande do Sul, I can say that the development of a culture of Free Software there is as important as funding coding. The Forums served as a great incentive to the FS project I'm involved with, the GoboLinux distribution, a project born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It was also in the Forums that I was exposed to another Brazilian Free Software project, the Lua language, which I now took part in my MsC project, funded by -- you guess -- the Brazilian government. So there's your "big project the Brazilian government funded on FOSS". Of course, we could use more research grants, but that's a more general problem of low incentive to science R&D (a recurring problem in the so-called Third World). At least, now, the grants are given by the government with the explicit condition that research results are made available under an OSI-approved license. To me, that's a great thing.

Good thing there's only 391 distributions listed on http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html