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Cory Doctorow: What I Do
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| Operating system: Iâm using Ubuntu, a version
| of the free and open GNU/Linux operating system
| that is designed to be easy to use and maintain
| for non-techy people. I was once a Unix
| sysadmin, but it has been a long time, and I
| wouldnât hire me to do it today. Ubuntu Just
| Works. I recently had cause to install Windows
| XP on an old ThinkPad and found that it was
| about a hundred times more complicated than
| getting Ubuntu running. When I transitioned to
| Ubuntu from the MacOS, I had a week or twoâs
| worth of disorientation, similar to what
| happened after we renovated the kitchen and
| changed where we kept everything. Then the OS
| just disappeared, and it has stayed
| disappeared, breaking in ways that are neither
| more severe nor more frequent than any other OS
| Iâve ever used.
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http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2010/07/cory-doctorow-what-i-do/
My experience with GNU/Linux professionally and personally
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| I am writing this out of my close
| association with GNU/Linux for quite
| sometime.I have had been using it everywhere
| to do my day to day work.
|
| First I have started or introduced to the
| UNIX system way back in 1996 during my
| Diploma classes.One day I was sitting in
| front of a blank and black terminal in the
| classroom ;so my instructor came to me and
| said " why are you sitting idle"...I replied
| back with a pretty confusing face that " I
| am not able to understand what to do with
| this(the black and blank terminal)..with
| small cursor blinking on it". My
| teacher/instructor smile at me(rightfully)
| and said " Bhaskar it is challenging you to
| play with it and waiting for your
| intervention"..that spark me!! From that day
| onward I fall in love with that fellow
| called "UNIX".Yes,it was SCO UNIX ..those
| days it was used in almost all the
| academia.Oh yes before that incident happen
| I was given a book or two about UNIX
| operating system and I went through them
| ..but little infer.
|
| [...]
|
| Basically corporate houses buy or run
| something which is quite stable and proven
| track record and should have paid
| support.The reason behind this is that
| business data are absolutely crucial to the
| business and which will fetch revenue with
| that.
|
| I had have the exposure of handling
| production box running RHEL(Enterprise
| version of REDHAT), SLES(SUSE Enterprise
| version),CentOS(derived from RHEL source)
| and to my surprise! Gentoo for one of my job
| assignment.And in the very same place Debian
| for hosting server.
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http://unixbhaskar.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-experience-with-gnulinux.html
A year from today Microsoft will lack a majority market share.
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| In the past twelve months Windows market share went from 88.09% to 83.11%. The Windows
| XP product, which continues to hold the
| largest market share went from 69.74% to
| 49.95% of the total desktop operating system
| market share. The trend is showing as people
| divest from older Microsoft technologies,
| they do not âupgradeâ to Windows Vista or
| Windows 7.
|
| The next 12 months will bring a new breed of
| tablets and notebooks which will run Ubuntu
| on ARM. These will sell like hot cakes so
| that people can watch Googleâs youtube and
| play games of Facebook. The desktop is over,
| even in the corporate sector.
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http://whatwillweuse.com/2010/06/30/a-year-from-today-microsoft-will-lack-a-majority-market-share/
Recent:
Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)
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| Danny O'Brien does a very good job of
| explaining why I'm completely uninterested in
| buying an iPad -- it really feels like the
| second coming of the CD-ROM "revolution" in
| which "content" people proclaimed that they
| were going to remake media by producing
| expensive (to make and to buy) products. I
| was a CD-ROM programmer at the start of my
| tech career, and I felt that excitement,
| too, and lived through it to see how wrong
| I was, how open platforms and experimental
| amateurs would eventually beat out the
| spendy, slick pros.
|
| I remember the early days of the web --
| and the last days of CD ROM -- when there
| was this mainstream consensus that the web
| and PCs were too durned geeky and
| difficult and unpredictable for "my mom"
| (it's amazing how many tech people have an
| incredibly low opinion of their mothers).
| If I had a share of AOL for every time
| someone told me that the web would die
| because AOL was so easy and the web was
| full of garbage, I'd have a lot of AOL
| shares.
|
| And they wouldn't be worth much.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-and-think-you-shouldnt-either.html
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