The swiss canton Solothurn is migrating 2000 desktops to Debian GNU / Linux
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| The IT adminstration of the swiss canton Solothurn will conclude the 2000
| desktop migration to Debian GNU / Linux by the end of 2008.
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http://times.debian.net/1224
Recent:
Nortel considers Linux desktops for its staff
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| Nortel CIO Steve Bandrowczak, who joined the Canadian telecoms and network
| equipment vendor last July, said "more and more CIOs are looking at Linux
| desktop for reasons of TCO" and argued that the technology "is receiving the
| same level of attention today as when Linux started on servers."
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http://www.mbtmag.com/articleXml/LN731846314.html
Related:
FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo
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| Bowen said he's in talks with the aviation safety agency's main
| hardware supplier, Dell Computer, to determine if it could
| deliver Linux-based computers capable of accessing Google
| Apps through a non-Microsoft browser once the FAA's XP-based
| computers pass their shelf life.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197800480
Adios Microsoft!
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| Ubuntu imported most of my pictures, music, and documents from Windows.
| There were some oddly named folders it missed. This was not problem as
| I was able to easily retrieve them when the setup was complete. I
| haven't reinstalled everything I normally use but all the major
| applications "just worked" after upgrading. I know this sounds
| like an advertisement for Ubuntu, I guess it is. I'll continue
| using it and report back on my progress.
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http://blog.fon.com/en/archive/technology/adios-microsoft.html
Windows Vista, The best thing that ever happened to Linux?
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| Millions of these units have been ordered by Countries such as
| Nigeria and Libya and pretty soon there will be millions of
| children around the world with Linux as their first operating
| system.
|
| In stark contrast Microsoft have just released Windows Vista,
| probably the most resource hungry Operating System ever, for
| the PC platform.
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http://www.otezz.net/windows-vista-the-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-linux/
Linux gains despite and because of Microsoft
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| Despite the heightened competition over the last two quarters from
| Microsoft-Novell and a move by Oracle to undercut Red Hat on the cost of Red
| Hat Linux support service, Red Hat has reported double-digit growth in
| revenue and an increase in profit.
|
| “The success of Red Hat has been able to validate the future potential for
| open source software,” Szulik says.
|
| Emerging countries are also lucrative markets for Linux, says IDC’s Gillen,
| because there isn’t as much of the legacy Windows technology to have to
| displace.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/072507-linux-microsoft-gains.html?page=3
Open source and Linux looking better every day
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| Vista Home Basic - How do you figure out all these different
| versions available? Thankfully a desktop shortcut to download
| an upgrade - the upgrade treadmill head start program?
|
| [...]
|
| Added openSUSE - dual boot, so I can use both.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/14993
Linux Says Bye-bye Windows XP!
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| It's been one of those months! My computer crashed taking with it crucial
| XP system files. This is the 3rd crash in the last year and I've finally
| had enough with the Windows operating system!
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http://www.richtam123.com/wp/?p=20
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