Windows will beat Linux threat, say academics, Sep 12, 2006

Major customers such as governments and large corporations are critical if Linux is ever to knock out the Windows monopoly, according to an upcoming economic study authored by two Harvard faculty members.

SGI has been moving its product line to Intel's Itanium processors and the Linux operating system in recent years. But it does mark the end of another chapter as the computing industry whittles down the list of hardware and software foundations in widespread use.

If you want to support a Linux desktop, a traveling business user is the hardest person to keep happy and productive. Connecting to strange wireless networks and working offline are both tricky. We asked Mark Shuttleworth how he handles networking and mail.

MEPIS announced on Sept. 9 the release of SimplyMEPIS 6.0-1 DVD Edition. The bootable DVD not only includes hundreds of bug and security fixes but also the 1,900 packages of the three SimplyMEPIS Extras CDs, distro founder and chief maintainer Warren Woodford said.

This article details our experiences installing the same Fedora Core set on a notebook with a much newer collection of Centrino Duo Mobile-based hardware components, an HP dv1000.

The CMS committee began to look at open-source projects in earnest, Hitlin said. It appraised Bricolage, Mason and OpenCMS but deemed them not quite right. Plone soon came to the forefront.

Kennards Hire is ready to replace Windows server with Linux at 90 branches, to accompany 400 desktops already running the open source operating system.

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