You've been running windows for 8 years with no anti-virus software and you've not gotten a virus in that time? Yeah, nice story but slightly unbelievable.
Ever hear of the middle class? You won't for long... they are slowly being eroded away... thanks to Walmart and other corrupted capitalist practices. I'm not anti-capitalist... I'm anti monopoly and strong-arm business tactics. If you can't see the "race to the bottom", you are ignorant. "Shut up and obey, citizen" is what you like?
Walmart is destroying America. They affect everything in our life, but don't you dare complain about them... they are very litigious. Plus, they have most of the American population eating from their hand. Oh well, come on everyone, it's a race to the bottom!
I mean, just have a look at Amazon to see all the new Ubuntu books coming out. I think they've got a good thing going with Ubuntu... forget about userlinux.
I personally refuse to take jobs involving MS technologies. But that's just me. Others can have those jobs, I certainly don't want them no matter how much they would pay.
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With Redhat being pretty much the leader in the corporate Linux world, this will hurt Oracle and boost JBoss... it's time for me to start reading up on JBoss. Could this be the start of the re-emergence of Java technologies at the forefront?
A very good book with many essays on the application and importance of open standards and open source is
Open Sources 2.0 : The Continuing Evolution. Check it out if you are interested in researching more of what some experts have to say about this.
The list of essays are:
1. The Mozilla Project: Past and Future by Mitchell Baker
2. Open Source and Proprietary Software Development by Chris DiBona
3. A Tale of Two Standards by Jeremy Allison
4. Open Source and Security by Ben Laurie
5. Dual Licensing by Michael Olson
6. Open Source and the Commoditization of Software by Ian Murdock
7. Open Source and the Commodity Urge: Disruptive Models for a Disruptive Development Process by Matthew N. Asay
8. Under the Hood: Open Source and Open Standards Business Models in Context by Stephen R. Walli
9. Open Source and the Small Entrepreneur by Russ Nelson
10. Why Open Source Needs Copyright Politics by Wendy Seltzer
11. Libre Software in Europe by Jesus M. Gonzalez-BarahonaGregorio Robles
12. OSS in India by Alolita Sharma and Robert Adkins
13. When China Dances with OSS by Boon-Lock Yeo, Louisa Liu, and Sunil Saxena
14. How Much Freedom Do You Want? by Bruno Souza
15. Making a New World by Doc Searls
16. The Open Source Paradigm Shift by Tim O'Reilly
17. Extending Open Source Principles Beyond Software Development
by Pamela Jones
18. Open Source Biology by Andrew Hessel
19. Everything Is Known by Eugene Kim
20. The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir by Larry Sanger
21. Open Beyond Software by Sonali K. Shah
22. Patterns of Governance in Open Source by Steven Weber
23. Communicating Many to Many by Jeff Bates and Mark Stone
Appendixes:
A. The Open Source Definition
B. Referenced Open Source Licenses
C. Columns from Slashdot
They already have the Xandros Business Edition which provides a desktop environment that looks and feels much like a better-looking Windows 2003. Unlike Windows, Xandros is easy to install and maintain, and it doesn't come with all of the security flaws and virus vulnerabilities that Windows has. Xandros Business Edition also includes the full edition of CrossOver Office. That means that if there is a major Windows software package that you can't live without, chances are you will be able to install and run it on Xandros through CrossOver. Now with the introduction of Xandros Server, which will go hand-in-hand with their business desktop distro, they are ready to eliminate Windows from almost any corporate environment. More power to them!
Linux may have a lot of distros, but that's inevitable because it's a free and open source product, not a single thing like Windows or OSX. People have tried making a "united linux" and it failed. From a business/enterprise point of view, there really are two choices for Linux, Redhat or Suse. I say more competition is required, not less! The hundreds of Linux you keep hearing about, well most are just hobbyist systems that will not make a difference to anyone but a few that require the features that that particular niche distro provides. Please stop saying Linux has too many distros... as it really makes no sense.
Actually, Synaptic is just a simple categories text listing of software to install. Many distros have the equivalent of this "for free". CNR has a lot of features like screenshot and aisles to name a few. You won't understand until you try CNR.
CNR has screenshots and brief descriptions for most of the programs in their database. I'm not saying CNR is perfect, but it's a lot easier for the "non-computer expert" user.
With Linspire's "Click and Run" system, you are not paying for free software, you are paying a yearly fee to have access to their software which keeps an up-to-date database of many free software packages and lets you install them with a single click (meaning download, install, icon on desktop).
I just set grandma up with Linspire. I did the initial install and yes, it is easy but still not something I would let grandma do herself. I wouldn't let grandma install any OS by herself.
The part where it REALLY is easy is software installation. They have a system called CNR (Click and Run) which costs $20/year, but it is well worth it. You get a icon on your desktop that you can click, then browse software categories. When you find something you like, just click the install button and voila, CNR downloads it, puts an entry in the Start menus and puts an icon on the desktop. No other distro that I know of does this with such ease.
I just switched grandma over from windows 98 to Linspire. I set it all up for her and she can install all the software she wants using the CNR system, which makes "one click install" a reality. So far she likes it. Her printer worked fine without any additional setup, as did her digital camera. And underneath, it's just a modded version of debian. Seems "not crappy" to me so far.... although I do agree that it is a Linux system for people that don't want to be bothered with tweaking everything to make it work. I personally run ArchLinux and Debian on my boxes and all I can say is that Linspire really does make Linux "easy" for the masses.
Oh, and if you are going to purchase Linspire, make sure you google around for a discount code. Somebody is always offering a discount code for Linspire somewhere.
Somebody please put a webcam on the most dangerous part of this road and put it online. You will get tons of hits and provide a good source of entertainment for the web masses.
You are correct, but my worry is that MS will figure out some way to penetrate the open source community and mindset and eventually warp it... to the point where everyone is just too lazy or apthetic to try and do things the "old way" anymore. Let's hope I'm wrong and the community will never forget what the point of open source software is.
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They have a ton of nice looking XHTML-Strict complaint website templates there, all free for use!
You've been running windows for 8 years with no anti-virus software and you've not gotten a virus in that time? Yeah, nice story but slightly unbelievable.
Ever hear of the middle class? You won't for long... they are slowly being eroded away... thanks to Walmart and other corrupted capitalist practices. I'm not anti-capitalist... I'm anti monopoly and strong-arm business tactics. If you can't see the "race to the bottom", you are ignorant. "Shut up and obey, citizen" is what you like?
Walmart is destroying America. They affect everything in our life, but don't you dare complain about them... they are very litigious. Plus, they have most of the American population eating from their hand. Oh well, come on everyone, it's a race to the bottom!
I mean, just have a look at Amazon to see all the new Ubuntu books coming out. I think they've got a good thing going with Ubuntu... forget about userlinux.
I remember the good old days when you could send the instructions F0 0F to the Intel CPU and voila... crash!
Because I am in the same boat. Any Linux distro that will be supporting DRM is not one that I will be supporting or telling anybody else to support.
I personally refuse to take jobs involving MS technologies. But that's just me. Others can have those jobs, I certainly don't want them no matter how much they would pay.
He has published many semi-interesting essays in Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. I am not sure I fully agree with his ideas on patents. Most of his stuff is fairly pendantic and if you want a sampling, just go read his articles online.
With Redhat being pretty much the leader in the corporate Linux world, this will hurt Oracle and boost JBoss... it's time for me to start reading up on JBoss. Could this be the start of the re-emergence of Java technologies at the forefront?
It was obvious that this was coming, as there are already plenty of cordless phones like the Linksys Cordless Internet Telephony Kit for Skype. Just get skype-in and skype-out service and you're good to go. Extending this idea to cell-phones was a matter of time.
A very good book with many essays on the application and importance of open standards and open source is Open Sources 2.0 : The Continuing Evolution. Check it out if you are interested in researching more of what some experts have to say about this.
:
The list of essays are:
1. The Mozilla Project: Past and Future by Mitchell Baker
2. Open Source and Proprietary Software Development by Chris DiBona
3. A Tale of Two Standards by Jeremy Allison
4. Open Source and Security by Ben Laurie
5. Dual Licensing by Michael Olson
6. Open Source and the Commoditization of Software by Ian Murdock
7. Open Source and the Commodity Urge: Disruptive Models for a Disruptive Development Process by Matthew N. Asay
8. Under the Hood: Open Source and Open Standards Business Models in Context by Stephen R. Walli
9. Open Source and the Small Entrepreneur by Russ Nelson
10. Why Open Source Needs Copyright Politics by Wendy Seltzer
11. Libre Software in Europe by Jesus M. Gonzalez-BarahonaGregorio Robles
12. OSS in India by Alolita Sharma and Robert Adkins
13. When China Dances with OSS by Boon-Lock Yeo, Louisa Liu, and Sunil Saxena
14. How Much Freedom Do You Want? by Bruno Souza
15. Making a New World by Doc Searls
16. The Open Source Paradigm Shift by Tim O'Reilly
17. Extending Open Source Principles Beyond Software Development by Pamela Jones
18. Open Source Biology by Andrew Hessel
19. Everything Is Known by Eugene Kim
20. The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir by Larry Sanger
21. Open Beyond Software by Sonali K. Shah
22. Patterns of Governance in Open Source by Steven Weber
23. Communicating Many to Many by Jeff Bates and Mark Stone
Appendixes
A. The Open Source Definition
B. Referenced Open Source Licenses
C. Columns from Slashdot
They already have the Xandros Business Edition which provides a desktop environment that looks and feels much like a better-looking Windows 2003. Unlike Windows, Xandros is easy to install and maintain, and it doesn't come with all of the security flaws and virus vulnerabilities that Windows has. Xandros Business Edition also includes the full edition of CrossOver Office. That means that if there is a major Windows software package that you can't live without, chances are you will be able to install and run it on Xandros through CrossOver. Now with the introduction of Xandros Server, which will go hand-in-hand with their business desktop distro, they are ready to eliminate Windows from almost any corporate environment. More power to them!
Linux may have a lot of distros, but that's inevitable because it's a free and open source product, not a single thing like Windows or OSX. People have tried making a "united linux" and it failed. From a business/enterprise point of view, there really are two choices for Linux, Redhat or Suse. I say more competition is required, not less! The hundreds of Linux you keep hearing about, well most are just hobbyist systems that will not make a difference to anyone but a few that require the features that that particular niche distro provides. Please stop saying Linux has too many distros... as it really makes no sense.
Actually, Synaptic is just a simple categories text listing of software to install. Many distros have the equivalent of this "for free". CNR has a lot of features like screenshot and aisles to name a few. You won't understand until you try CNR.
No screenshots. No customizable aisles.
CNR has screenshots and brief descriptions for most of the programs in their database. I'm not saying CNR is perfect, but it's a lot easier for the "non-computer expert" user.
With Linspire's "Click and Run" system, you are not paying for free software, you are paying a yearly fee to have access to their software which keeps an up-to-date database of many free software packages and lets you install them with a single click (meaning download, install, icon on desktop).
Are you working for MS or what?
The part where it REALLY is easy is software installation. They have a system called CNR (Click and Run) which costs $20/year, but it is well worth it. You get a icon on your desktop that you can click, then browse software categories. When you find something you like, just click the install button and voila, CNR downloads it, puts an entry in the Start menus and puts an icon on the desktop. No other distro that I know of does this with such ease.
Oh, and if you are going to purchase Linspire, make sure you google around for a discount code. Somebody is always offering a discount code for Linspire somewhere.
Somebody please put a webcam on the most dangerous part of this road and put it online. You will get tons of hits and provide a good source of entertainment for the web masses.
You are correct, but my worry is that MS will figure out some way to penetrate the open source community and mindset and eventually warp it... to the point where everyone is just too lazy or apthetic to try and do things the "old way" anymore. Let's hope I'm wrong and the community will never forget what the point of open source software is.
HA HA HA HA!! ..... oh wait, that's not quite right is it