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Using Ubuntu as your sole operating system in academia
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| I've been using Ubuntu Linux as my sole operating system for two years now,
| ever since before I became a professor. The switch was completely painless as
| I had already been using the same software on Windows and the Mac for years
| (such as OpenOffice, Firefox, VLC, Pidgin, Netbeans, Eclipse, JEdit,
| Inkscape, Gimp, etc.). I wrote about making the switch to Linux gradually
| over 6 years ago, and I dual-booted to Windows and Linux for a long time, but
| Windows was still my primary OS until 2 years ago.
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http://edtechdev.blogspot.com/2009/06/using-ubuntu-as-your-sole-operating.html
Growing Your Business Using Ubuntu
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| I am able to run about 90% of what I need on a daily basis through Ubuntu.
| For the other 10% I have to use a virtualized installation of Windows. Even
| if 10% of your network had to have Windows for something, the savings for the
| rest would be astronomical. For most users, Ubuntu would be sufficient to
| run 100% of needed software, therefore saving your company thousands of
| dollars in licensing costs. Simply replacing one Windows file server with
| Ubuntu would save nearly $1000.00 and none of your users would know it was
| there.
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http://kcdataworks.com/dw/Blog/tabid/67/EntryId/4/Growing-Your-Business-Using-Ubuntu.aspx
Recent:
More universities join Yahoo for Net-scale research
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| Yahoo is a major contributor to Hadoop, a project within the Apache Software
| Foundation's collection, but Google created the underlying technology through
| its MapReduce algorithm. MapReduce and Hadoop can be used for tasks such as
| finding, relatively rapidly, all the Web sites that link to a particular Web
| site, a task that's essential to the companies' search engines.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10215939-92.html
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