Microsoft matters less every 6 months
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| Which leads me back to my headline. Edubuntu (and the various incarnations of
| Ubuntu) are very good right now. Microsoft may bring us “Patch Tuesday,” but
| Canonical brings us a significantly upgraded operating system every 6 months.
| Many other major Linux developers follow a similar schedule. If the
| improvements between versions are immediately noticeable, imagine what a
| couple more generations will bring us. What will Edubuntu 8.10 look like and
| how much better will it be? For that matter, how will SUSE Linux and their
| Kiwi implementation of LTSP look (along with the promise of fully-functional
| library and student information system software out of the box in the coming
| months)? RedHat/Fedora aren’t exactly far behind either, to say nothing of
| the countless options represented by other distributions.
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http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1280
Related:
Change and development with open source
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| Innovation goes hand in hand with open source software. Open source software
| builds on the innovative nature of people; it comes from people's desire to
| make something better. It also gives people the skills and resources to
| become innovative with software.
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| This is not abstract speculation; a recent report from a group of corporate
| CIOs states, 'faster product cycles are seen as a big advantage for open
| source - CIOs believe that product innovation is faster in open source'.
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http://www.nccmembership.co.uk/pooled/articles/BF_WEBART/view.asp?Q=BF_WEBART_292509
Beware of undisclosed Microsoft patches
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| Forget for a moment whether Microsoft is throwing off patch counts
| that Microsoft brass use to compare its security record with those
| of its competitors. What do you think of Redmond’s silent patching
| practice?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=527
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