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- SA Democrats Nuke $50k CMS, Trial desktop linux
- The South Australian Democrats rejected a $50,000 content management system from an unnamed vendor for its new Web site in favour of the free PostNuke open source system. Legislative Council member expressed "Shock and horror" when he was told of the $50,000 price tag. He immediately said they won't go...
- Tags: Desktop, Linux, Democrat, Desktop Linux, Content Management System, International Data Group, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Open Source, Software
- Case studies
- KDE Case Study: Indiana Access Program
- Linspire, Inc. and Wintergreen Systems announced that Indiana high schools are currently testing desktop Linux machines in school systems across the state as part of a plan to provide every public high school student with a computer. If successful, the plan, called the Indiana Access Program, will provide each high...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Desktop Linux, KDE, Linux, Productivity, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies
- A desktop linux success story
- Glad to hear someone else agreesIt's great to finally hear that someone else gave Linux a fair shot. I work in a nearly 100% Linux & FOSS enviroment at my office (I say "nearly" because there we have a few proprietary technical apps using some outdated Windows API's and for...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, tech10171968@..., Linux, Microsoft Windows, desktop Linux success story, desktop, Unix, desktop Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- A desktop linux success story
- Here's a pretty good perspective on the Great Desktop Debate from the Community Voices blog at PC World. Poster Phil Shapiro says: I was somewhat amused to read Michael Gartenberg's comments that Linux is still not ready for the desktop. Please don't tell that to any of the people...
- Tags: Desktop, Desktop Linux, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Selena Frye
- Blog posts 2007-10-11
- Hewlett-Packard to offer desktop linux
- Dell and Ubuntu, HP and Red HatI find the distribution choices interesting. Does anyone else interpret this as Dell going after the home market and HP being more interested in the corporate environment? Maybe both companies view their choices as reducing support costs. Maybe Dell thinks Ubuntu...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Palmetto, desktop, desktop Linux, Linux, Ubuntu, Dell Computer Corp., update feature, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-05
- Hewlett-Packard to offer desktop linux
- Hewlett-Packard has ended a long running bout of speculation by officially announcing that it will be selling Linux-based PCs. The news comes from Australia's APC magazine -- HP will be offering their dx2250 desktop machine with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop -- the catch? It's only available in Australia thus far....
- Tags: Desktop, Linux, Hewlett-Packard Co., Desktop Linux, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Red Hat focuses on desktop linux and emerging markets
- Red Hat announced a new desktop version of Linux at its Red Hat Summit in San Diego. Red Hat Global Desktop is aimed at desktop and laptop customers in developing nations. Intel is partnering in the design and distribution of the software, which is geared for Intel PC designs called...
- Tags: Desktop, Linux, Red Hat Inc., Emerging Market, Desktop Linux, Intel Corp., Red Hat Global Desktop, Open Source, Mary Weilage
- Blog posts 2007-05-10
- Is there a desktop linux revolution?
- DesktopLinux.com's admittedly non-scientific recent poll indicates that the number of desktop Linux users has more than doubled since last year. Unsurprisingly, Ubuntu is the favorite distribution. In his discussion of the results, Steven Vaughan-Nichols points out that whatever one may think of the poll's accuracy, Dell and Lenovo probably aren't preloading Linux just...
- Tags: Desktop, Linux, Desktop Linux, DesktopLinux.com, Selena Frye
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Is there a desktop linux revolution?
- Just take a look at VistaWith all the bugs and complexities of the new Windows Vista, whatever alternatives people have are worth considering. If you have one that does not cost you that much money, all the more reason to at least give it a shot. Apparently, people...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), JPRuiz, desktop Linux, Linux, desktop
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- LinuxWorld Day 1: Big Green Linux, preloaded desktop linux, and the virtualization of everything
- The first day of LinuxWorld 2007 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco -- and its companion conference Next Generation Data Center -- witnessed a flurry of announcements from both big vendors and small vendors. I also met with several vendors that I thought had the most interesting new...
- Tags: Desktop, Linux, Virtualization, Desktop Linux, IBM Corp., Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- LinuxWorld Day 1: Big Green Linux, preloaded desktop linux, and the virtualization of everything
- For years linux has seemed to bethe preserve of the net-geek.Hard to install,impossible to understand,without a phd in physics.But over the last few years,distros have improved beyond belief.One of the great upturns has been the live-cd option,where you simply place the disc in your drive,have a look,and if you decide...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, Neil Higgins, Linux, desktop Linux, virtualization
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- Red Hat focuses on desktop linux and emerging markets
- Red Hat Global Desktop is aimed at developing nationsWhat do you think about Red Hat's efforts to take less of one-size-fits-all approach? Are you impressed by companies such as Red Hat who have decided to work on the One Laptop Per Child effort?Ubuntu 1, Red Hat 0I sense a scramble...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, desktop Linux, emerging market, Red Hat Global Desktop, Newsletter Editor, Red Hat Inc., Ubuntu, desktop, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- The Diffusion and Adoption of desktop linux in Government
- Linux and the Open Source Software movement have affected worldwide computing - first in the data center and now moving in on the desktop. Even though Microsoft Windows is the de facto desktop and office automation standard worldwide, more and more countries and their governments are looking to desktop Linux...
- Tags: Desktop Linux, Linux, Government, Desktops, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2006-07-27
- Is the Linux Desktop Dead?
- Just a few quotes from a recent study:http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6134965.html?tag=nl.e550Ironic the story comes out this week, the same week that I, a pro-Microsoft supporter, just loaded Fedora 6 to test out.While I have zero inten
- Tags: windows, rickk@..., Linux, desktop, Linux desktop
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- Birmingham kills desktop linux project citing runaway expenses
- The City Council of Birmingham England terminated a desktop Linux project that was originally planned for 1500 desktop computers in libraries across the city. The reason given for the termination was the high cost of deploying and maintaining Linux. Open source advocates criticized the...
- Tags: Birmingham, Birmingham England, Desktop, desktop Linux, Linux
- Blog posts 2006-11-20
- Birmingham kills desktop linux project citing runaway expenses
- Linux in action: A public library's success storyHoward County, MD Public Library has successfully migrated more than 200 public PCs from Windows to Linux, saved money, and everybody is happy.From (1):[i]"The migration seems to have been alm
- Tags: george ou, linux, TechExec2, desktop, desktop Linux, new-PCs
- Discussion threads 2006-11-20
- desktop linux versus Windows XP shootout
- boot timesThe hell? How did I miss this?To write this I'm using an IBM Thinkpad 600E, circa 1998, with a 366MHz Intel Mobile Pentium II with 256KB cache and 128MB of RAM. Boot time for my install of Debian GNU/Linux from a standing start to full X Window...
- Tags: Linux, windows, microsoft, performance, george ou, apotheon, off-topic, desktop, desktop Linux, SuSE, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, distro, kernel
- Discussion threads 2006-07-11
- $100 laptop 'will boost desktop linux'
- Not convinced 100% about the OLPC philosophyI have difficulty in understanding/agreeing with the OLPC philosophy; that holds the belief that if a child sees a PC as its own, then it improves the chances to educate the child.So how can children be engaged in their own education, by providing them...
- Tags: LAPTOPS, OLPC, teacher, laptop, education, onbliss, hardware, Learning, desktop, desktop Linux, laptop computer, Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-06-07
- desktop linux 2
- I have been a fan of Red Hat for a long time and went on to use Ferdora. I also have countless hours on BSD/OpenBsd. So to make a long story short I haven't used every Linux distro on the planet. However I have tried a few...
- Tags: desktop, Ubuntu, windows, linux, networking, xstep, distro, desktop Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-06-05
- desktop linux
- The hinging question is, is Linux ready for the desktop? The simple answer is yes and has been for years. What do i mean by that? I guess it depends on who is asking and who is answering. More to the point, who cares to know and...
- Tags: desktop, Linux, windows, xstep, desktop Linux, DVD, K3b
- Discussion threads 2006-05-30
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