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Windows Malware: The final straw that broke the penguin's back
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| So this weekend, I popped in a brand-new
| 500GB hard drive, and installed the Ubuntu
| Lucid Lynx 10.04 release candidate, and
| never looked back. I copied in all of my
| personal data from my Windows 7 drive and
| installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 in
| VirtualBox. My love affair with Windows as
| my primary operating system is over.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=12768
Maintaining Linux in the home.
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| Sure there is still a lot of focus on Linux
| for home use and there are many
| distributions who's target audience is for
| home users. I have recently written an
| article about such a distribution. I do
| feel that there is something missing in all
| the hype about Linux that is being spread
| around so I guess that that duty falls on
| me to say something about it.
|
| [...]
|
| It does not matter where in the world this
| person may be. As an example, I live in
| Turkey and can just as easily service my
| Linux using relatives in Australia as I can
| my daughters laptop in the next room. The
| speed of internet connection is not
| important as anything from a text only mode
| to a full graphical environment can be
| used. I cannot imagine easily doing that
| with any other proprietary home targeted
| operating system.
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http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/locutus/maintaining-linux-in-the-home-38314
Related:
Unixfication II
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| My OpenSolaris 2008.05 write-up struck a chord with a bunch of folks in the
| community because the very title itself âWhat Ubuntu Wants to Be When it
| Groups Upâ was taken as an affront to Linuxâs maturity and the hard work and
| milestones accomplished by Ubuntu project and the Free Software communityâs
| efforts. While I will claim a mea culpa in that I wanted to title the piece
| with a headline that attracted attention, that was not the intended message
| here.
|
| Click on the âRead the rest of this entryâ for more.
|
| [...]
|
| The FSF has always referred to Linux as GNU/Linux. This isnât just Richard
| Stallman being bitter â this is the official name of which the Debian
| distribution, which forms the basis for Ubuntu, is referred to. It might be a
| little bit of a stretch, but what if the OpenSolaris kernel and many of its
| other components were to fall under the auspices of the Free Software
| Foundation? Surely, Sun would have to give up some control, but if you follow
| the natural course of things, GNU/Solaris is not out of the question.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8769
French police deal blow to Microsoft
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| The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft
| for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest
| administrations in the world to make the break.
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iU4Lq7tOR_WVOJLZ3IeRaIH03x6w
Feeling the heat at Microsoft
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| A couple of years ago you reiterated that IBM was Microsoft's biggest
| competitor and you said not just on the business side, but overall. If I ask
| you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be?
|
| Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have
| to go with that.
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http://www.news.com/Feeling-the-heat-at-Microsoft/2008-1012_3-6232458.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc
The brazilian Election Supreme Court migrates 430 thousand voting machines to
GNU / Linux
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| The brazilian Election Supreme Court announced at April 4th 2008, that the
| 2008 elections at Brazil will use GNU / Linux electronic voting machines with
| software digital authentication.
|
| The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (the brazilian Election Supreme Court),
| officially announced on April 4th, 2008, that the brazilian 2008 elections
| will use 430 thousand electronic voting machines migrated from VirtuOS and
| Windows CE to GNU / Linux and open source softwares for security and auditing
| defined by proper law.
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http://techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/tse_migrates_to_linux
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