While I’m still up, I might as well tell you about my latest article, “Proprietary Software and Linux: Good, Bad or Somewhere in Between?”. This comes on the heels of […]
During a speech at the University of Washington in 1998, Bill Gates said: “About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don’t pay for the software. […]
I never realised before, but Windows based Internet cafés violate Microsoft’s license terms, because: Windows desktop operating system and Microsoft Office system licenses do not permit renting, leasing, or outsourcing […]
In their attack on free software, Microsoft has launched a website which compares various aspects of Windows to its counterpart on Linux. One of the latest videocasts compares getting Perl […]
This 400 page book from IBM might be useful when migrating a corporate network from Windows to Linux. Linux Client Migration Cookbook, Version 2: A Practical Planning and Implementation Guide […]
I’ve created a page for listing commercial products which use Linux for 2010. My hope is to build up the list over the year as I come across things and […]
The French Military switched to free software in 2007 and has developed an extension for Thunderbird called “TrustedBird” which is co-branded with Mozilla and used in the recent Thunderbird 3. […]
TuxRadar has put together a review of eight of the top KDE-focused Linux distros. Not all distros are made equal, particularly if you’re a KDE user. KDE has had something […]