November 29, 2010
by sjvn01
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A friend of mine recently got a surprise. She was setting up her brand spankin’ new Dell Inspiron m101z with its dual-core AMD Athlon processor and 4GBs RAM) with Windows 7 Home Premium. She wasn’t happy because it was already … Continue reading
November 16, 2010
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Linux is fast. That’s why it’s 90%+ of the Top 500 fastest supercomputers run it. What some people don’t realize though is that Linux is much better at delivering speed for servers and supercomputers than it is on the desktop. … Continue reading
November 14, 2010
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When I first saw that Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, was dumping the X Window System, which is the networking windowing system that’s the foundation of almost all Unix and Linux graphical desktop, for Wayland, an OpenGL-based display management system, I … Continue reading
November 10, 2010
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Red Hat announced today, November 10th, that long anticipated release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6. The announcement itself was anti-climatic. Everyone in Linux circles knew that RHEL 6 was coming. What I did find interesting–as customer after customer … Continue reading
November 8, 2010
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Where is the iPad’s competition? By this time, I’d expected to see some real comers gunning for Apple’s iPad tablet. Hasn’t happened. You want to talk about HP’s just-released Slate 500? It has a starting list price of $799. An … Continue reading
November 8, 2010
by sjvn01
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The Linux desktop has been around for more than a decade now. Despite its best efforts, and Microsoft’s dumbest missteps — I’m looking at you, Vista — it’s never owned more than a fraction of the market. Canonical, Ubuntu‘s parent … Continue reading