Mark Kent wrote:
flatfish+++ <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
30 Jan 2007, Mark Kent wrote:
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 30
Mummy says I am the most handsomest and clever child.
A forger's mental diarrhoea just snuck in. I did not write
this.
Sorry, I'm a bit stressed at the moment with Mrs Mark's illness.
I did remove the article, but not the headline in the list.
So what you are saying is that your "Linux News Digest" SPAM posts
Consist of only the News that you consider to be news.
Someone forging Roy's ID and posting insulting cr*p, as was done
there, quite likely by yourself, is not News in my book.
Interesting how the proponants of Linux, OpenSource and free
speech/software etc seem to be the biggest censors of the bunch.
If you think I can censor Usenet, you have a rather higher opinion of
me than I have.
I hear FoxNews is hiring, Mark Kent. You seem to have the
experience.
Hardly, although I do have a very ill wife, thus I failed to remove
the offending headline, as I was not 100% focused.
IMHO, Mark Kent would be an excellent asset addition to the FoxNews
staff as indicated by the latest headlines:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246401,00.html
Dvorak: Windows Vista's 'Mac'-Ness Might Open Door for Linux Takeover
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 By John C. Dvorak
A number of unique consolidations are happening in the industry just
as Microsoft is trying to get a buzz going about Vista.
The timing couldn't be better, but there are bound to be numerous
shake-outs and a few collapses. And Microsoft looks vulnerable, too.
The most important event is the formation of the Linux Foundation.
This is an attempt by the major players, including Hewlett-Packard,
IBM, and Intel, to create a standard Linux and discourage the
continued trend toward various distros that are subtly incompatible
with each other and certain applications.
<SNIP>
After all, nobody likes the worsening heavy-handedness of Microsoft.
In a never-ending paranoid fit over piracy, Microsoft has its
operating systems "calling home" too much. And in an attempt to take
over the world with its codec, the company has far too much
digital-rights management built into everything.
The most curious aspects of Vista, which may also spell its doom and
mark the end of the road for the most popular OS in the history of
the world, are its new Mac-like qualities. This phenomenon I find
quite fascinating.
<SNIP>
Four of the top ten are Adobe products.
That said, I assume that ports have already been completed on most of
those programs on the list "just in case."
If so, the tide toward a Linux desktop OS could happen so fast —
overnight, in fact — that everyone would be shocked.
Intel is not completely in bed with Microsoft:
http://www.intel.com/business/casestudies/philippines_rural_pc.pdf
Philippines now have their own Filipino language specific distro called
Bayanihan Linux:
The onset of the 21st century has found the Philippines lagging after
its Asian neighbors in computer literacy and information technology
(IT). Faced with the daunting task of bridging over 7,100 islands,
the Philippine government has directed the Commission on Information
and Communication Technology (CICT) to step up its campaign to
promulgate Community e-Centers (CeCs).
The project implementers chose to deploy Bayanihan Linux* OS, a local
version of the Linux* operating system developed by the Advanced
Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), and open source software
(OSS) applications in the CeCs. To ensure the success of this
program, the government also needed a stable and cost-efficient
platform that could extend the advantage of the Linux OS and OSS
applications; hence the decision to use Intel® architecture-based
PCs.
Here is a partial list of deployments, mind you it is only a sampler:
3,500,000 India
80,000 Extremadura, Spain
80,000 Générale des Impôts, France
62,000 Ministry of Equipment, France
58,000 Berlin, Germany
32,000 Government, Brazil
20,000 Indiana Department of Education, US
20,000 Singapore Ministry of Defence
15,000 Ministry of Education, Portugal
14,000 Post Office, Brazil
12,000 Lower Saxony Tax Authority, Germany
10,000 Department of Justice, Finland
4,000 Federal Public Justice Service, Belgium
2,205 North West Province Schools, South Africa
1,500 Metropolitan Court, Budapest, Hungary
1,154 Parliament, France
1,000 Ministry of Water Resources, Turkey
600 Central Bank, Turkey
400 Largo City Offices, Florida
300 Istanbul City Health Directorate, Turkey
300 Scientific and Technological Research Council, Turkey
150 Ministry of Finance, Macedonia
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3,914,609 Subtotal, there are many, many, more ….
Is there anything unique about Vista's 3D desktop? Linux already has one:
http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
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Cheers, Rafael
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