It seems that it was worth it to delay the release with few weeks. This 12.2 release works really well on brand new Ultrabook (in this case Samsung Series 5). Recent hardware including Intel HD 4000, and new chipset - I guess it is thanks to Intel's open source drivers (and of course hard work of packagers) that experience is this good.
The European citizens' initiative allows one million EU citizens to participate directly in the development of EU policies, by calling on the European Commission to make a legislative proposal.
..or you could buy new hardware that is certified for your distribution. For example, Mandriva 2006 is certified for several HP business laptops. In our company, we're using HP nc6220 and HP nx8220 models.
Linux works very well as desktop OS. In our company, there is Max OS X laptops, Linux and Windows XP laptops - and all *just work*.
Secret here is choose your hardware well - I did check Mandriva hardware database before choosing my laptop. HP nc6220 is certified to work with Mandriva Linux 2006 - and suprise suprise, it works like a charm - WiFI for example.
It is not that different from Mac OS X situation: you just have to choose your hardware, dont expect every (windows) gadget out there to work with your OS of choise.
I guess ASF could finally certify it's J2EE container, but maybe it'll take a while to implement the whole J2EE 1.4 specification. There is another open source J2EE container, Jonas (Java Open Application Server, from Objectweb consortium) who is aiming for J2EE 1.4 certification. I've used their J2EE 1.3 -compliant versions, and latest stable version (3.3.6) is really a very good container implementation, even in production environments. First milestone release (4.0) of J2EE 1.4 container is already released. I think that Jonas could very well be the first certified open source container.
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Twelve times but only if every month is as good as July. I very much doubt it :)
It seems that it was worth it to delay the release with few weeks. This 12.2 release works really well on brand new Ultrabook (in this case Samsung Series 5). Recent hardware including Intel HD 4000, and new chipset - I guess it is thanks to Intel's open source drivers (and of course hard work of packagers) that experience is this good.
Maybe Year of Desktop Linux is near?
This will be complemented in EU level with the European citizens' initiative starting 1.4.2012:
http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome
The European citizens' initiative allows one million EU citizens to participate directly in the development of EU policies, by calling on the European Commission to make a legislative proposal.
Germany could of course be producing 40% less co2 per capita like some other industrialized nation...
Nokia N900 seems really good and really *free* - even root access is allowed.
..or you could buy new hardware that is certified for your distribution. For example, Mandriva 2006 is certified for several HP business laptops. In our company, we're using HP nc6220 and HP nx8220 models.
c ts/clients/clientscert-mandriva.html9 57-64295-89315-321838-f33-447371.html/ 89934/file/certification-form.pdf
For example:
http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/produ
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/321
http://www.mandriva.com/en/content/download/10377
I guess that these laptops would work great with (K)Ubuntu also.
Slightly off-topic, but..
Linux works very well as desktop OS. In our company, there is Max OS X laptops, Linux and Windows XP laptops - and all *just work*.
Secret here is choose your hardware well - I did check Mandriva hardware database before choosing my laptop. HP nc6220 is certified to work with Mandriva Linux 2006 - and suprise suprise, it works like a charm - WiFI for example.
It is not that different from Mac OS X situation: you just have to choose your hardware, dont expect every (windows) gadget out there to work with your OS of choise.I guess ASF could finally certify it's J2EE container, but maybe it'll take a while to implement the whole J2EE 1.4 specification.
There is another open source J2EE container, Jonas (Java Open Application Server, from Objectweb consortium) who is aiming for J2EE 1.4 certification. I've used their J2EE 1.3 -compliant versions, and latest stable version (3.3.6) is really a very good container implementation, even in production environments.
First milestone release (4.0) of J2EE 1.4 container is already released.
I think that Jonas could very well be the first certified open source container.