Windows Vista is not supported anymore since 2012, and the extended support will end this year, IIRC. The OS was released in 2007. It seems to me that Redhat life cycle is that long since RHEL 5, which was released before Vista. And Redhat's support is actually happening if you need it... So yeah, support ain't an advantage ?
Canonical only offers 5 years for the LTS releases of Ubuntu. So wouldn't have cut it for your Vista example, yet, 5 years seems quite reasonable to plan an upgrade of the OS. It's not because MS users run outdated OS for 10+ years that it makes it a good idea.
If you work full time for a company in France, you get 5 weeks of paid vacations. It's the law. And as far as productivity goes, 5 weeks of rest is probably not even enough... Though if employers were reasonnable about it in the first place, it wouldn't have to be in the law...
Hi,
I've been looking for myself, and one that stood out was the Xperia Z1 compact from sony. My primary issue was the battery endurance, but it seems to be able to get all the frequencies required by 4G..
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_x...
Oh no. Don't forget training. Training is required (heck, it'd be required if considering upgrading to Windows 8). Unless you're working with IT people that could adapt themselves, never, ever forget about training. Going on Linux is a good way to escape the ~200$ upgrade fee to 8 (7 isn't exactly a good long term strategy) and to make the step in the open source way of things, but don't think that because it looks the same and they can do the same things, they will without having someone holding their hands at first.
And of course, make sure that there is no part of the workflow that requires proprietary software that could not run, or not have a viable alternative (by viable, I mean, that the users can handle without looking back) on Linux.
I made the switch for all our sales people at $WORK, and even the boss, but you need to show them at least how to get the minimal stuff done, or you'll get as much (if not more) support to handle than on Windows. Which shouldn't be the plan. 2 years after the switch, I can say mission accomplished, the only thing I was asked about were alternatives way of doing things they couldn't figure out just by googling it (and probably couldn't have on Windows either anyway). But we mostly use LibreOffice, Firefox & Thunderbird, so there was no real software compatibilities issues.
Hey.. Not sure about that one, but it's been a long time since I actually felt that a "cloud" mentionned on Slashdot might prove useful!
But then I read it was about a gas cloud.. Not some vapor- oh wait..
I bought a Kindle.. And I now read a lot more than I used to, though it's especially in the train.. The e-ink display is really far ahead of the other technologies, and is really comfortable. Battery is never an issue, and the experimental browser is not too bad for news reading either.. The included dictionnary is really nice, as well as the nice wikipedia integration (especially while reading foreign litterature with local names and such..)
Then, you have 2 cons mainly.. a) PDF.. already mentionned here, but even if there are workarounds, it's mainly terrible.. b) the format.. can't really be happy with the amazon ebook format, but well, it works ®..
I'm happy with my Kindle, and as it's not a smart-tab-computer-coffee-machine, it's actually a lot better to stay focused on what you're reading, which enabled me to actually... read faster;)
Google already flagged MS France as malicious 2 years ago: http://gilouweb.com/bordel/google_truth.png (Ce site risque d'endommager votre ordinateur meaning: this website might harm your computer)
So I guess it's only revenge;)
I totally agree with your point of view. I think that there are many reasons our administrations should require opensource for their projects:
there is a real public audit of the software, should it still be developped by a selected corporation
money is not lost for private parties, as in, they are many things that could benefit other people, companies.. If it's the taxpayers' money, what can be more transparent to give it back this way to them?
it lowers the risk of lock-ins for the administrations, that usually end by costing a lot more when you need to buy again a new solution 3 years later..
I think there is a lot to write & tell about how the many general reasons to endorse opensource could be adapted to the government / administration specifics, in terms of local economy growth, global service & quality improvement of software, ability to share more easily the load between cities/states/whatever and so on..
The article sounds indeed more like a rant made public about a problem. Of course, this doesn't deny there is problems with 9.10, but heh, it was in alpha/beta, as the others, and nothing really "that serious" was pointed out I think. Anyway, people ranting loudly enough to make it to The Register may learn that they can also participate in testing the releases..
As for my story, I was running 9.10 since alpha, and it went quite nicely.. Minor pulseaudio glitches that were solved over time and so on. At work and on my laptop, I've upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic when offered to do so by the update manager, and it went nicely too. No problem here, not even a dependency issue, it really went fine, and 2.6.31 is really nice to my setups;)
About all this issue.. I can't help but think it's more a PR prank than a real spotted issue.. The bugtracker doesn't tell that "that many" users are impacted, and also, that it may be more due to a ATI-card weirdness.. Heh. Not ubuntu's fault in the end, even if they could have worked around it..
What about incentives like Niftyname, an opensource HaaS system made by a French ISP?
Or oVirt, the virtualization system from RedHat?
Given how the "cloud" is ready today, I'd say those things are far from being late.. Maybe they need more attention?
If you don't want to look at code, however bad it is, it doesn't mean you should necessarily turn to proprietary software (or even "not fight for F/OSS).. Which is somehow his point. If locked on proprietary software, his only option was to ask the editor to correct the bug. Which may or may not be willing to do so.
With opensource software, he could have hired someone to waste his time on it, even if the original developper wouldn't have been willing to do so.. Plus it could have been a nice contribution, so probably for a lower price, he could have had his software up&running, and made the software better..
And anyway, just by reading that: "which I can find out by other means than looking at source code", we can probably assume the technical details aren't exactly relevant to him.
This is a map to show the possible routes from Ryanair airports. They now have included a list of their routes so people can read from it instead of their silverlight map, but still.. I've installed the plugin, and this still doesn't work.
So of course, no, we don't want that MS thing, but at a point.. it's like Flash, if webmasters start to use it, better have some support that works than just whine about who made it in the first place..
They will only do that for piracy issues, because someone is paying for that directly. Not sure how the maths work if you compare it to how much the taxpayers pay. I'd rather have my government/police work and actually spend money on fighting true spam/virii issues rather than going after P2P users..
I actually thought about that, and couldn't find any nice interface to be able to manage Samba/LDAP users & configuration. The furthest I could go was going for an OpenLDAP GUI, which is not enough for a "manager" to work on such an environment..
I'd be interested in any FOSS opportunities to manage that using a GUI (may it be web based or not..., but then has to be able to run on Windows:p), without having to go through the hassle of writing it myself (or have it written by someone from scratch).
So, if anybody went through something that might fit here, I'd be really interested! Even if it's alpha, pre alpha, only brain work.. Even if it's not free as in free beer..
Though it certainly looks effective, what makes it powerful is also a drawback, you have to send all the content you want to be checked to them. Maybe that's because my tinfoil hat is getting too big, but in many cases, I'd like to avoid spam AND keep the content for myself.
Of course, here the guy is asking for forum/blogs which are in main case submissions for publicly available content, so I guess it would fit.
"Linux is surrounded by proprietary IT firms. Some of them view Linux as a profit maker, others as a threat to their profits."
Now, let's see what advertisement I was given while reading the summary:
http://www.frequence3.fr/~gilou/go_linux.png
Can't be more accurate about "surrounding" I guess...
Hmm, maybe too flamebait or trollish here, but still.
The good thing that could bring a MS-made ODT plugin would be 100% compatibility between ODT and OOXML. While the plugin for MS Office from Sun is just fine, it's not possible to migrate old MS Docs seamlessly. This means that people won't switch.
I do want to make people use OpenOffice, and I use it myself, but I need to make sure that old documents will be translated with no page breaks problems and with no human interaction. And I also need to make sure that MS can read what I produce using OO.org properly. Otherwise, people won't see the point, and go on using MS Office and saving.doc files. I don't care about MS Office being a standard, if it's so good, so be it. If MS can build a nice (and better than Sun's) tool to do so, I don't care... Just allow full interop, please
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Windows Vista is not supported anymore since 2012, and the extended support will end this year, IIRC. The OS was released in 2007. It seems to me that Redhat life cycle is that long since RHEL 5, which was released before Vista. And Redhat's support is actually happening if you need it... So yeah, support ain't an advantage ?
Canonical only offers 5 years for the LTS releases of Ubuntu. So wouldn't have cut it for your Vista example, yet, 5 years seems quite reasonable to plan an upgrade of the OS. It's not because MS users run outdated OS for 10+ years that it makes it a good idea.
If you work full time for a company in France, you get 5 weeks of paid vacations. It's the law. And as far as productivity goes, 5 weeks of rest is probably not even enough... Though if employers were reasonnable about it in the first place, it wouldn't have to be in the law...
Hi,
I've been looking for myself, and one that stood out was the Xperia Z1 compact from sony. My primary issue was the battery endurance, but it seems to be able to get all the frequencies required by 4G.. http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_x...
Oh no. Don't forget training. Training is required (heck, it'd be required if considering upgrading to Windows 8). Unless you're working with IT people that could adapt themselves, never, ever forget about training. Going on Linux is a good way to escape the ~200$ upgrade fee to 8 (7 isn't exactly a good long term strategy) and to make the step in the open source way of things, but don't think that because it looks the same and they can do the same things, they will without having someone holding their hands at first.
And of course, make sure that there is no part of the workflow that requires proprietary software that could not run, or not have a viable alternative (by viable, I mean, that the users can handle without looking back) on Linux.
I made the switch for all our sales people at $WORK, and even the boss, but you need to show them at least how to get the minimal stuff done, or you'll get as much (if not more) support to handle than on Windows. Which shouldn't be the plan. 2 years after the switch, I can say mission accomplished, the only thing I was asked about were alternatives way of doing things they couldn't figure out just by googling it (and probably couldn't have on Windows either anyway). But we mostly use LibreOffice, Firefox & Thunderbird, so there was no real software compatibilities issues.
M. Bellard's Javascript PC Emulator ?
Hey.. Not sure about that one, but it's been a long time since I actually felt that a "cloud" mentionned on Slashdot might prove useful!
But then I read it was about a gas cloud.. Not some vapor- oh wait..
I bought a Kindle.. And I now read a lot more than I used to, though it's especially in the train.. The e-ink display is really far ahead of the other technologies, and is really comfortable. Battery is never an issue, and the experimental browser is not too bad for news reading either.. The included dictionnary is really nice, as well as the nice wikipedia integration (especially while reading foreign litterature with local names and such..) ;)
Then, you have 2 cons mainly.. a) PDF.. already mentionned here, but even if there are workarounds, it's mainly terrible.. b) the format.. can't really be happy with the amazon ebook format, but well, it works ®..
I'm happy with my Kindle, and as it's not a smart-tab-computer-coffee-machine, it's actually a lot better to stay focused on what you're reading, which enabled me to actually... read faster
Google already flagged MS France as malicious 2 years ago: http://gilouweb.com/bordel/google_truth.png (Ce site risque d'endommager votre ordinateur meaning: this website might harm your computer) So I guess it's only revenge ;)
Thought the same, and the obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/619/ ;)
I think there is a lot to write & tell about how the many general reasons to endorse opensource could be adapted to the government / administration specifics, in terms of local economy growth, global service & quality improvement of software, ability to share more easily the load between cities/states/whatever and so on..
The article sounds indeed more like a rant made public about a problem. Of course, this doesn't deny there is problems with 9.10, but heh, it was in alpha/beta, as the others, and nothing really "that serious" was pointed out I think. Anyway, people ranting loudly enough to make it to The Register may learn that they can also participate in testing the releases..
;)
As for my story, I was running 9.10 since alpha, and it went quite nicely.. Minor pulseaudio glitches that were solved over time and so on. At work and on my laptop, I've upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic when offered to do so by the update manager, and it went nicely too. No problem here, not even a dependency issue, it really went fine, and 2.6.31 is really nice to my setups
About all this issue.. I can't help but think it's more a PR prank than a real spotted issue.. The bugtracker doesn't tell that "that many" users are impacted, and also, that it may be more due to a ATI-card weirdness.. Heh. Not ubuntu's fault in the end, even if they could have worked around it..
That one http://www.venganza.org/ ?
What about incentives like Niftyname, an opensource HaaS system made by a French ISP? Or oVirt, the virtualization system from RedHat? Given how the "cloud" is ready today, I'd say those things are far from being late.. Maybe they need more attention?
If you don't want to look at code, however bad it is, it doesn't mean you should necessarily turn to proprietary software (or even "not fight for F/OSS).. Which is somehow his point. If locked on proprietary software, his only option was to ask the editor to correct the bug. Which may or may not be willing to do so.
With opensource software, he could have hired someone to waste his time on it, even if the original developper wouldn't have been willing to do so.. Plus it could have been a nice contribution, so probably for a lower price, he could have had his software up&running, and made the software better..
And anyway, just by reading that: "which I can find out by other means than looking at source code", we can probably assume the technical details aren't exactly relevant to him.
What exactly would have changed if it had not been free software?
Actually, there is one website which has switched to Silverlight.. I'm not sure why they did, but it made me very unhappy:
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/dests.php?flash=chk
This is a map to show the possible routes from Ryanair airports. They now have included a list of their routes so people can read from it instead of their silverlight map, but still.. I've installed the plugin, and this still doesn't work.
So of course, no, we don't want that MS thing, but at a point.. it's like Flash, if webmasters start to use it, better have some support that works than just whine about who made it in the first place..
Or they could do.. whatever.. and you'd still die in the end.
They will only do that for piracy issues, because someone is paying for that directly. Not sure how the maths work if you compare it to how much the taxpayers pay. I'd rather have my government/police work and actually spend money on fighting true spam/virii issues rather than going after P2P users..
I actually thought about that, and couldn't find any nice interface to be able to manage Samba/LDAP users & configuration. The furthest I could go was going for an OpenLDAP GUI, which is not enough for a "manager" to work on such an environment..
I'd be interested in any FOSS opportunities to manage that using a GUI (may it be web based or not..., but then has to be able to run on Windows :p), without having to go through the hassle of writing it myself (or have it written by someone from scratch).
So, if anybody went through something that might fit here, I'd be really interested! Even if it's alpha, pre alpha, only brain work.. Even if it's not free as in free beer..
Though it certainly looks effective, what makes it powerful is also a drawback, you have to send all the content you want to be checked to them. Maybe that's because my tinfoil hat is getting too big, but in many cases, I'd like to avoid spam AND keep the content for myself.
Of course, here the guy is asking for forum/blogs which are in main case submissions for publicly available content, so I guess it would fit.
You must be new here...
Now, let's see what advertisement I was given while reading the summary: http://www.frequence3.fr/~gilou/go_linux.png Can't be more accurate about "surrounding" I guess...
Hmm, maybe too flamebait or trollish here, but still.
.doc files. I don't care about MS Office being a standard, if it's so good, so be it. If MS can build a nice (and better than Sun's) tool to do so, I don't care... Just allow full interop, please
The good thing that could bring a MS-made ODT plugin would be 100% compatibility between ODT and OOXML. While the plugin for MS Office from Sun is just fine, it's not possible to migrate old MS Docs seamlessly. This means that people won't switch.
I do want to make people use OpenOffice, and I use it myself, but I need to make sure that old documents will be translated with no page breaks problems and with no human interaction. And I also need to make sure that MS can read what I produce using OO.org properly. Otherwise, people won't see the point, and go on using MS Office and saving
My 0.02
If it was only about buzzwords... I had to watch carefully through the ads to see the no-content on this device... Why not link http://www.akustica.com/products/digitalmic.asp instead ?