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Ubuntu Remains Best Linux Distribution for Desktops
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| Based on my tests of Ubuntu 8.10—which is more fancifully known as the
| Intrepid Ibex—I maintain that Ubuntu is, without question, the best Linux
| distribution available for desktops, and the ablest open-source rival to the
| more broadly used desktop operating systems from Microsoft and Apple.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Ubuntu-Remains-Best-Linux-Distribution-for-Desktops/
Full Circle Magazine: Issue 19
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| * Command and Conquer - Lost and Found.
| * How-To : Program in C - Part 3, Make a WiFi Access Point, Using GIMP -
| Part 8 and Create Mobile Multimedia.
| * My Story - Ubuntu John
| * Book Review - Beginning Ubuntu Linux 3rd Ed.
| * MOTU Interview - Emilio Monfort
| * Top 5 - Virtualization Tools
| * NEW FEATURE! Ubuntu Games - Open Arena
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http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-19/
Recent:
[Jason Brooks on Vista 7]
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| In the day and a half I’ve spent using Windows 7 on a Microsoft-provided Dell
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| XPS M1330 machine preinstalled with Build 6801 of the OS...
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Windows-7-a-Big-Improvement-Over-Vista/
Microsoft bribes again?
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| But, if as appears may be the case Microsoft is letting people have Dell XPS
| M1330 laptops with 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processors and 3GBs of RAM
| on 'indefinite loans (wink, wink) then it's a bribe in my book. What do you
| think? If you knew someone had been given a PC with a list price of $1,956
| and then wrote nice things about the operating system that came with it would
| you be inclined to think that they might be just a wee bit influenced by the
| almost two grand worth of computer?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/microsoft_bribes_again
Blacklisted by Microsoft!
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| Basically, they blacklisted me from certain super-secret (i.e.
| pre-conference, NDA, off-the books) sessions at their Professional Developer
| Conference (PDC) –- this after formally inviting me to attend those sessions
| as an "esteemed reviewer" representing InfoWorld.
|
| [...]
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| Oct. 9, 2008 -- A short while later, I get my first hit. It seems that the
| whole mess started when the Windows Server team made the mistake of inviting
| yours truly to an event hosted by the Windows Client team. Apparently, the
| folks on the Server team were unaware of my decidedly negative views towards
| Vista, and when the Client folks found out they had invited Randall C.
| Kennedy -– a.k.a. Vista's most vocal and effective critic -– to their
| special, "for fanbois only" (nice photos, Paul) shindig, they went ballistic.
|
| First, it appears that someone high up on the Client Team (Steve?) really
| doesn't like me. I mean, really, truly loathes me. And it's not just your
| run-of-the-mill frustration with a journalist who picks on them. This thing
| is personal, and the executive in question is allowing his or her personal
| feelings to spill over into the company's handling of formal press relations
| with InfoWorld.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2008/10/blacklisted_by.html
Related:
PC Mag May Boycott Edelman PR
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| Transparency is a word that's been kicked around a lot lately. But
| too much transparency is what got Edelman PR pro and blogebrity
| Steve Rubel kicked around this week, instead. An early Friday
| 13th comment about PC Magazine is fueling a potential boycott,
| as well as fulfilling what the PR world had feared about blogging.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/04/20/pc-mag-may-boycott-edelman-pr
Bribing Bloggers
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| It's a bribe. Period. You say nice things about us, you get nice
| things from us. Heck, just say neutral things about us-we'll give
| you a killer new laptop and we know that you'll be inclined to say
| better things about us.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2077596,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Microsoft Sent A Free Laptop With Windows Vista
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| I'm not sure how I was selected to be one of the people receiving this
| (I'm assuming there are others, but I haven't come across any yet).
| It could be that they are reaching out to bloggers who are Mac users
| (I switched to a Mac back when OS X came out) or it might just be that
| people I know who work for Microsoft or other influential bloggers
| recommended me
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http://laughingsquid.com/microsoft-sent-a-free-laptop-with-windows-vista/
Microsoft Traps and Hunts for Bloggers in India !!
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| Microsoft has announced the "Microsoft BlogStars" contest, to Hunts
| for Developer Bloggers in India. After feeling the power and increase of
| the Bloggers community in India, Microsoft tries to trap and hunt Bloggers
| in India to buildup the blogging community, for writing blog posts
| supporting towards Microsoft Technologies.
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http://i5bala.blogspot.com/2006/10/microsoft-traps-and-hunts-for-bloggers.html
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