September 29, 2009
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Unix is 40-years old. 1969, the summer of love, was the summer of not having enough computer resources for AT&T Bell Lab employees Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. After the failure of Multics, a timesharing operating system, the two needed … Continue reading
September 28, 2009
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Microsoft really wants people to get excited about Windows 7 so they’re showing people how to put on Windows 7 parties with a video, that already become famous for being incredibly lame. It’s so out-of-touch that it’s funny. For an … Continue reading
September 25, 2009
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HP has a love/hate relationship with Linux. The company supports several Linux distributions-Red Hat; Novell/SUSE; and community Linux Debian–on its servers, but finding it takes some digging. Still, that’s nothing compared to finding HP’s desktop Linux support. For example, several … Continue reading
September 24, 2009
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The big money software companies, like Microsoft, still rely on proprietary software for their profits. Things are changing though. While businesses like Microsoft and Sun are seeing their profits and growth decline, pure open-source play companies like Red Hat are … Continue reading
September 23, 2009
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I really, really want to see what Google has planned for us with its Chrome operating system, Intel and the Linux Foundation isn’t waiting around to see what they’ll do. Today, September 23rd, they and their partners, such as Dell … Continue reading
September 21, 2009
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Linux’s heart is open source. But, developers can pick and choose how much, if any, proprietary software they want to include in their distribution. Recently, the Free Software Foundation announced its latest additions to its listing of open-source purist distributions. … Continue reading