I use Fedora 16 and VPN into the office using PPTP. Aside from being required to use Office/Exchange (for which I use Winblows 2000 - the last Microsoft CD I own - on top of VirtualBox), virtually all of my needs are met with Fedora's distribution. If there are stupid ActiveX webapps or Java applets that weren't written with Linux in mind, then I might have to use Windows for that reason too. Life is a lot better for Linux desktop users now than it has been in the past. More enterprise vendors offer OS-agnostic web interfaces instead of desktop applications. Regrettably, many of them are starting to value their in-house and web 2.0 documentation more and are guarding them within an authentication wall. This causes problems when you'd like to use search engines to find answers to common problems. Meh.
Agree with the 'Nokia ad' poster. Why does TrollTech's being acquired by Nokia equate to an open source victory? Was the Sun acquisition of MySQL an open source victory?
Setting milestone releases for major projects aside, the biggest news for 2009 will be the economy. Look for major government adoptions; however, be on the lookout for many more GPL lawsuits...
Errm.. Didn't Godel, Escher, Bach receive a Pulitzer Prize?
The popular physics (Feynman, Sagan) and evolution (Dennett, Dawkins) titles have all received literary accolades in addition to welcome reception from the scientific community.
Why should EW have anything to do with science? They should only be reviewing the pop sci-movies and TV shows and continue to neglect any material that requires thought.
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I use Fedora 16 and VPN into the office using PPTP. Aside from being required to use Office/Exchange (for which I use Winblows 2000 - the last Microsoft CD I own - on top of VirtualBox), virtually all of my needs are met with Fedora's distribution. If there are stupid ActiveX webapps or Java applets that weren't written with Linux in mind, then I might have to use Windows for that reason too. Life is a lot better for Linux desktop users now than it has been in the past. More enterprise vendors offer OS-agnostic web interfaces instead of desktop applications. Regrettably, many of them are starting to value their in-house and web 2.0 documentation more and are guarding them within an authentication wall. This causes problems when you'd like to use search engines to find answers to common problems. Meh.
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The most incisive analysis of "A Day in the Life of a Jr. level SA" I've seen on /.
Agree with the 'Nokia ad' poster. Why does TrollTech's being acquired by Nokia equate to an open source victory? Was the Sun acquisition of MySQL an open source victory? Setting milestone releases for major projects aside, the biggest news for 2009 will be the economy. Look for major government adoptions; however, be on the lookout for many more GPL lawsuits...
Don't you mean `grep -ri contract ~/notes`? :)
Errm.. Didn't Godel, Escher, Bach receive a Pulitzer Prize? The popular physics (Feynman, Sagan) and evolution (Dennett, Dawkins) titles have all received literary accolades in addition to welcome reception from the scientific community. Why should EW have anything to do with science? They should only be reviewing the pop sci-movies and TV shows and continue to neglect any material that requires thought.