The Ultimate con
Even if the Windows Ultimate team has fled to the International Date Line, summer is officially over. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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23.9.2007 Windows-based Eee PC to outsell Linux version - Another blow for Linux
Newsflash from ASUS - the company is predicting that the XP Home version of the Eee PC will outsell the Linux-based version by 3 to 2.
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13.3.2008 What Microsoft has that Linux
Microsoft has seven "Microsoft Across America" trucks cruising the country, visiting Microsoft Partners at their request to show off the latest Windows wonders. At last count, there were exactly zero (0) "Linux Across America" trucks.
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15.8.2006 The Linux phone
With thousands of phones in the market, companies are looking for ways to cut costs to give the users the best overall experience, along with a cheap price tag to attract a user base.
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9.2.2009 Why Windows is less secure than Linux ?
Windows is inherently harder to secure than Linux. There I said it. The simple truth.
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15.4.2006 Lenovo To Shun Linux
Computer maker Lenovo will not install or support the Linux operating system on any of its PCs, including ThinkPads and a series of new notebooks, the company said this week.
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5.6.2006 $300 Linux Computers
AMD64-based desktop systems will be offered for $300 to consumers. How? It is because of a partnership between Britt Systems and Technalign. To keep the price so low, BrittSystems will ship the computers with a version of the Linux operating system.
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16.7.2006 15 Years of Linux!
15 years have passed since Linux appeared. On August 25th 1991, Linus Benedict Torvalds has announced the world about his new operating system:
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26.8.2006 Microsoft: 'Linux owes us'
In comments confirming many of the open-source community's suspicions, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has claimed that the Linux OS (operating system) infringes on his firm's intellectual property.
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18.11.2006 Gates on Vista, Linux and more
Bill Gates is pretty confident that when he spots an emerging technology, it will emerge. Exactly when that happens, though, is sometimes a question mark.
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18.11.2006 Microsoft threatens Linux again
I was waiting to come from Ballmer's threats against Linux on IP grounds last week never materialised, so it is time to do it myself.
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25.2.2007 The Linux lesson Windows needs
Gartner analysts are running about in Las Vegas, hair on fire, shouting that Windows is collapsing. Or about to collapse. Or something.
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11.4.2008 Can Linux beat the bloat
Linus Torvalds shocked the crowd (well, the group) at LinuxCon this week with three words.
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25.9.2009 Microsoft: No Office Software for Linux
Future of open-source software debated at LinuxWorld conference.
Microsoft will not release a version of its Office suite software for open-source rival Linux, though the company is actively studying how Linux works and how it can integrate with the platform, a Microsoft representative says.
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Hey Google, Where's The Linux Apps?
A member of a Denver Linux development shop wonders why Google hasn't made its applications available for Linux systems.
It's pretty remarkable that considering Google's fabled use of Linux on thousands of servers and hundreds of desktops that all the desktop applications coming out of the Googleplex, with the solitary exception of the Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X, only run on Windows machines.
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19.11.2005 MS: Windows More Reliable Than Linux
Microsoft made a statement on Thursday that is sure to rile its detractors: the Windows Server operating system is being chosen in greater numbers by corporations over UNIX and Linux for its reliability.
To support the claim, Microsoft said companies such as Altera, Rayovac, and CompUSA cited that fact in their decisions to choose the Windows platform.
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24.3.2006 Microsoft Launches Linux Website
Microsoft Thursday at LinuxWorld is expected to unveil a new website for users to find information about its Linux and open-source interoperability efforts, according to the executive in charge of those plans.
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7.4.2006 Microsoft Office for Linux 'inevitable'
Microsoft will release a version of Office to run on Linux within the "next couple of years", according to the chief executive of the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL).
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19.8.2006 Microsoft to Announce Linux Partnership
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is due to make a special announcement later today regarding a partnership with Novell.
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3.11.2006 Is Microsoft Going to Start a Linux War?
With software, the idea is to create some sort of code that is jammed into Linux and whose sole purpose is to let some proprietary code run under Linux without actually "touching" Linux in any way that would subject the proprietary code to the GPL.
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8.11.2006 Linux may infinge on Microsoft's patents
There have been a lot of words written about the comments made by Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer during a Q&A session after his keynote speech at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference in Seattle last week.
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26.11.2006 Can Dell change the Linux market?
After a lot of hemming-and-hawing, Dell has decided to accept the verdict of its IdeaStorm users and sell pre-installed Linux.
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26.2.2007 Windows vs. Linux vs. Mac OS X
There has been a consistent amount of “ink” spilled over comparing Windows, Linux and Mac OS X this month. The reports have generated some controversy, because they point out that Windows delivers a more secure platform than Linux and Mac OS X.
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30.3.2007 Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux?
The cost of upgrading to Windows Vista is forcing more organizations to evaluate alternatives including Apple Macs and Linux for the desktop.
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16.7.2007 Microsoft lures Linux Hackers
At next weeks LinuxWorld event the Microsoft Windows Embedded team will be hosting another free food/beer/chat event.
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2.8.2007 Linux Is Copying Windows Vista
Forget about Windows Vista! Introducing Vixta, an open source, Linux-based, copy of Vista. Generally speaking, Linux, open source, Microsoft and Windows are by no means aligned concepts.
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11.10.2007 Linux Is Popular? Now Wait a Minute
My Linux-Watch colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' definition of desktop Linux popularity is rather disturbing.
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17.12.2007 XP meets XO: What about Linux?
The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux.
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16.5.2008 Is Windows 7 the Linux-netbook killer?
When it comes to PCs and laptops, Microsoft had little to fear with Linux as much as it does the Mac. But now the new threat to Windows comes in the form of 'netbooks' - lightweight, low-cost laptops that typically use Intel's low-powered Atom processor and don't come with substantial amounts of RAM or powerful graphics processors.
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24.12.2008 Windows kicks Linux to the curb
Last July Linux had a huge opportunity to beat Windows in the red-hot netbook market (see Linux for housewives. XP for geeks. ). But faster than I’d expected Microsoft has kicked Linux to the curb, claiming an 80% attach rate for netbooks.
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26.1.2009Provision Plans Portable Virtual Desktop Beta
Provision Networks expects to enter beta testing of its portable virtual desktop technology in the first quarter of 2008.
Paul
Ghostine, general manager of Provision, put the same timeframe on the delivery of another capability he mentioned to Computer Business Review in
August: the ability to provision multiple virtual desktops reading from a single OS image.
Ghostine said the development of the
virtual desktop mobility offering is being done in collaboration with another company, Vizioncore, which is 70% owned by Quest and whose backup and
replication engine Provision is using for the purpose.
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29.11.2007Linux.com won't be a news site, but instead a place for Linux
As first reported by " target="_blank">my
friend and colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at Computerworld yesterday, probably the most important domain name that a Linux-associated
entity could ever want, Linux.com, was sold by SourceForge, and is now in the hands of the Linux Foundation.
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05.03.2009Shift Linux: A New Direction
Since its incarnation in 2006, Shift Linux has had an ambitious team behind it. We have always strived to be "more than just another linux
distribution", a goal which has never been more important than it is now. Over the next little while, Shift will be reborn and redefined, moving
farther away from traditional Linux roots, and into something newer. Linux will always be our core, but on top of that, we need to use new
technologies, both those that exist and those which we can only imagine, to build something fresh. Today, Shift Linux will move forward. We have
several new goals that are being set. First of all, Shift needs to be streamlined.
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23.11.2008What flavor Linux do Dell users want?
Either Dell is really going
through with putting Linux on
their products or they are
interested in doing extensive
research before making the
final decision. In a new
desktop Linux survey, Dell
begins by asking which models
of Dell desktop and notebook
systems customers prefer,
where they're used and what
applications customers use on
them - in other words, Dell
wants to know what a Linux
desktop system will be used
for. Dell's survey goes on to
ask what level of Linux
support people want from them.
Would support from software
vendors and the open-source
community be enough, or do
consumers want full-scale
corporate support? Finally,
Dell asks customers which
distributions they would most
like to see: Novell/SUSE, Red
Hat, Fedora, openSUSE or
Ubuntu. Users also have the
option of nominating their
favorite Linux distribution
that isn't on that list.
In the Dell blog that
introduces the Linux survey,
Matt Domsch, Dell's Linux
software architect, wrote:
" We're crafting product
offerings in response, but
we'd like a little more
direct feedback from you: your
preferences, your desires. We
recognize some people prefer
notebooks over desktops,
high-end models over value
models, your favorite Linux
distribution, telephone-based
support over community-based
support, and so on. We can't
offer everything -- all
systems, all distributions,
all support options -- so
we've crafted a survey to let
you help us prioritize what we
should deliver for you ."
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14.03.2007HP joins the Ubuntu Linux bandwagon
HP's Linux support will no longer be limited to Red Hat and SuSE Linux. Through a new partnership with Canonical, HP is becoming one of the latest in
a series of huge IT players to hop aboard the Ubuntu Linux bandwagon...
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18.02.2009Dell adds new notebook PCs, Dimension desktop brand to be phased out
Dell Inc.
introduced new notebook computers on
Tuesday available in eight
different colors with advanced
features as it tries to grab a
bigger slice of the consumer
PC market.
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26.06.2007Techs and execs collaborate on Linux apps
In more and more Linux deployments at banks and brokerages, the business side of the operation is getting heavily into the act. Collaboration is
becoming the keyword, and suddenly Linux developers find they're being joined by executives...
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02.04.2008Victorian Government Microsoft's $23 million Vista patsy: consultant
While the rest of the world is shying away from Windows Vista and looking to deploy Linux across schools, the Victorian State Government in Australia
is behaving like Microsoft's patsy by side-stepping competition and adopting Vista in schools, according to a leading local IT consultant.
Con Zymaris, the CEO of Cybersource, a company that has specialized in the integration of Linux and Windows sites since the early 1990s,
says the Victorian Department of Education, is heading in the wrong direction by adopting Windows Vista in a $23 million deal announced this week.
"The Victorian Department of Education has again neglected the market, side-stepped competition by open tender and signed yet
another deal with Microsoft - excluding all other platform vendors, to deploy Windows Vista - an operating system shunned by the rest of IT
industry," said Zymaris.
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25.10.2007Linux comparison: Introduction and Ubuntu
Introduction I have toyed around with Linux on and off for the last few years, mostly with Ubuntu. My first experience of Linux was Ubuntu. At first
it was a bit scary, with me wondering if my CPU would implode should I type the wrong command. The more I used Linux though, the more I learnt about
my computer. This is why I think anyone who finds computers and technology interesting, should give it a go. And what better time to do so than now?
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04.12.2008New release of Linux kernel presents major changes
Linux expert Linus Torvalds announced in his blog on Wednesday that Linux kernel version 2.6.25 has been publicly released, with changes to WiFi
support, file system management, and virtualization...
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22.04.2008Microsoft patents: Linux to become VFAT-free?
In light of the recent Microsoft-TomTom VFAT lawsuit and its subsequent settlement, Linux users have been wondering what Microsoft's intentions
with regard to the presence of VFAT functionality in the Linux kernel might be. The Linux Foundation continues to maintain that Microsoft's VFAT
patents are not valid. And of course the United States is one of only a small handful of countries that even recognise software patents. However,
according to CNet, the Linux community has recently been taking steps to work around the entire VFAT patent issue. But what is the nature of the VFAT
patents, and how can Linux bypass them?
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03.07.2009Shift Linux to become based on Arch Linux
As part of our new direction, I am proud to announce that Shift Linux will be moving away from Ubuntu, and instead switching over to Arch Linux. There
are many reasons for this, including a more customizable distribution for us as developers to work with, and a faster and more streamlined start
point. In my letter to the community about our new direction, I said that Ubuntu would suit our needs fine, and when the time felt right, we would
consider a move. Since then, the outpouring of support from the Neowin community has been unbelievable, and so we decided to take advantage of the
moment.
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28.11.2008Linux is first OS to support USB 3.0
Sarah Sharp, a self-styled "geekess" and Linux developer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center who has recently been working on the Linux USB
subsystem, announced on her blog that support of USB 3.0 will soon be integrated into the Linux kernel This makes Linux the first operating system to
support the standard. If you can't wait and have the expertise necessary, she includes instructions on how to get USB 3.0 support in Linux now.
According to Ankika Kehrer, "
he basic specifications for USB 3.0 show it to have a transfer rate of 5.0 Gbps. The standard was announced in
November 2008 by the USB Implementers Forum, Inc.
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neowin.net - 11.06.2009
OSDL Declines Linux vs. Windows Study
Microsoft approached the Open Source Development Labs at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo about carrying out a study to compare its operating system with Linux, however the group balked at the idea saying it would likely be used as fodder for anti-Linux marketing...
betanews.com - 01.09.2005
Microsoft Holding Its Ground
on Office for Linux
Some prominent figures
in the Linux community believe
that as enterprises increase
their use of Linux on the
desktop, Microsoft Corp. will
be forced to consider offering
a version of Office for
Linux???or at least make its
software more interoperable
with open-source desktop
productivity
suites.
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When the [Linux desktop]
market share gets to a certain
point, Microsoft will, just as
it did with Apple [Computer
Inc.] in the past, make Office
available on Linux," Open
Source Development Labs Inc.
CEO Stuart Cohen told eWEEK in
a recent interview.
"I'm sure they
have done the work and that
they know what the market
numbers need to be for that to
be financially viable for
them. I really think that when
enough of their enterprise
customers' office workers,
help centers, IT and
engineering departments are
running Linux on the desktop
and interoperability really
becomes an issue, they will go
and listen to their
customers," he said,
acknowledging that he has no
evidence of any willingness on
Microsoft's part to allow
Office to run on top of Linux...
winbeta.org - 06.09.2005
Nero Linux moves ahead with HD DVD, Blu-ray support
During the CeBIT computer show in Hannover, Germany, Nero announced plans to launch Nero Linux 3.5, which now promises to run on Linux subnotebooks
with smaller screen resolutions...
betanews.com - 06.03.2008
Dell: certain PCs will be available with Linux
Dell plans to expand Linux
support beyond existing offers
of servers and the Precision
workstation line. That means
Linux pre-installed on select
desktop and notebook systems,
although which specific models
is currently unclear. On
Friday February 16, Dell
launched IdeaStorm where it
allowed the public to suggest
what the second largest PC
maker should aim for. Linux
support was the number one
request and on March 13, Dell
launched a detailed Linux
survey asking for feedback.
Dell claims over 100,000
people took the survey, of
which highlights
include:- More than 70%
of survey respondents said
they would use a Dell system
with a Linux operating system
for both home and office use.
- Survey respondents
indicated they want a
selection of notebook and
desktop
offerings.
- Majority of
survey respondents said that
existing community-based
support forums would meet
their technical support needs
for a tested and validated
Linux operating system on a
Dell system.
- Survey
respondents indicated that
improved hardware support for
Linux is as important as the
distribution(s)
offered.
Dell also
noted that based on comments
on the Direct2Dell blog, the
majority of users are less
concerned about a specific
distribution and are more
interested in kernel level and
open driver support. Dell is
working on that as well: for
new Linux desktops and
notebooks, drivers already in
the mainline kernel.org
kernels will be used for as
many components as possible
and will be included in the
user's chosen distribution.
As well, where there is a
choice, Dell plans to include
components with a Free driver
as opposed to components with
a non-Free driver. Where there
are open source drivers, Dell
will continue to encourage the
development (by all parties)
towards open source drivers,
but will also provide the
closed-source drivers.
neowin.net - 29.03.2007
Linux Foundation gets a boost as Canonical signs on
Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, has joined the Linux Foundation. This move reflects the growing relevance of
Canonical in the Linux ecosystem and indicates that the company has achieved a level of growth that empowers it to contribute additional resources
back to the Linux community.
winbeta.org - 19.08.2008
Freescale, others join open source mobile Linux effort
In an effort to effectively battle competitors and make a Linux-based operating system available for mobile phones, the Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMo)
announced it has added several new members...
betanews.com - 05.08.2008
Dell Joins Microsoft + Novell Linux Pact
Calling Linux and Windows the
"two platforms of the
future," Novell this
morning hailed the entry of
Dell as the first systems
vendor to join the Microsoft +
Novell pact, as a reseller of
Microsoft's SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server
certificates. The deal
effectively makes Microsoft a
real Linux distributor for the
world's #2 supplier of
servers...
betanews.com - 07.05.2007
