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Late Night
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| Six hours of fiddling instead of a 20 minute
| installation of GNU/Linuxâ Was it worth it? I
| do not know. Certainly the student is very
| aware of the high cost of maintaining that
| other OS. At my usual rate of pay, six hours
| would be worth roughly the value/price of the
| netbook so it could have been scrapped and
| replaced for the cost of âfixingâ it until
| next time. His family is also aware that that
| other OS cost the boy an evening at home with
| family. I will write up an advertisement to
| send home with students promoting our
| âInstallFestâ to be held next week. Such
| costs will figure prominently.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/04/17/late-night/
Installfest at School
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| This installfest is for fund-raising for
| various projects like graduation expenses. At
| the last bazaar, I ran hockey target-
| shooting. This could be more fun and more
| profitable, I hope. By parallel processing I
| should be able to do 20 machines easily,
| about double the take on the last bazaar.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/04/17/installfest-at-school/
Acer, and Others, are Surging Ahead
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| If the old guard wish to remain relevant they
| must innovate and/or reduce prices. Both Dell
| and HP have obvious GNU/Linux expertise.
| There is a lot of room to innovate there.
| They could reduce unit prices $100 or more by
| switching to GNU/Linux. From what I have seen
| of Debian GNU/Linux, Squeeze (my recent bug
| has been fixed by an update), once the bugs
| are out in a few months, they could put out
| products as smooth as â7â and much cheaper.
| Further, they could put ARM into mainstream
| products and cut prices another $100 or so.
| ARM+GNU/Linux would permit HP and Dell to put
| out units at about half their current price.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/04/16/acer-and-others-are-surging-ahead/
Recent:
10 Things Linux Does Better Than Windows
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| In the computer hardware world, certain
| segments are saturated with choice, while
| others are not. Take graphics cards for
| example. For the most part, it's AMD (ATI) vs.
| NVIDIA. For CPU's, AMD vs. Intel. For CPU
| coolers... ugh, where to begin. We'd need at
| least a billion "vs." for that one! Then there
| are operating systems, where like GPU's and
| CPU's, the choices of major vendor are slim.
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http://techgage.com/article/10_things_linux_does_better_than_windows
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