Archive for October 1, 2007

Fedora 8 and Online Desktop

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The world is changing and online applications are becoming more and more popular, whether for e-mail or word processing. The developers behind Bigboard and Gnome’s “online desktop” initiative think it’s time our desktops started catching up. Read on to find an interview with Colin Walters, more information about Bigboard and the online desktop.

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Top Ten Side Effects of Switching to Linux

{ Monday 1 October 2007 @ 01:21:09(+0000) } · { Digg }
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Studies done by a prestigious think tank in Silicon Valley have identified the most common behavioral changes in people who have switched to Linux. They were nice enough to share their information with us. According to them, these are the ten most frequent side effects of Linux use with us.

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Microsoft launch anti-linux campaign worthy of a politician

{ Monday 1 October 2007 @ 00:23:24(+0000) } · { Digg }
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Microsoft’s latest affront to the Linux community is their “STATE GOVERNMENT SAYS LINUX WAS TOO BIG A RISK” campaign, and I’m sick of them ad-spamming Linux related articles with this piece of garbage. The Linux Scorecard blog digs a bit deeper and discusses the claim, and the man who originally made it.

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Five Common Misconceptions About Linux

{ Monday 1 October 2007 @ 00:19:38(+0000) } · { Digg }
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1. Linux is Behind the Times …Wrong
2. Linux is Hard to Use …Wrong
3. Linux isn’t Compatible with Anything ..Wrong
4. Linux isn’t Enterprise Ready / No One Uses Linux …Also wrong
5. Linux isn’t… Well just go read the article already why don’t ya?

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