Some Linux Critiques By Way Of A Solaris Dissenter, Jun 08, 2009

Not long after my post about the newest rev of OpenSolaris, a programmer friend called me to dissent. He'd tried OpSol, too, found it sorely lacking, and from his comments I found a criticism that now applies to Linux as well.

Have you bought a Kindle or Kindle 2 yet? Don't--at least not until you check out the COOL-ER ebook reader. The COOL-ER is Linux-based and is ready to deliver with 128MB RAM, 1GB storage (Expandable to 4GB--SD Card) and its Samsung® S3C2440 ARM 400MHz processor.

Only eight days after the fourth release candidate was made available for testing, Tiny Core lead developer Robert Shingledecker has announced the final release of Tiny Core Linux 2.0 and Micro Core Linux 2.0.

You don’t buy an operating system. You buy a gadget that runs a program. The gadget and its software are one unit. This is Invisible Linux.

Go back to basics with these old-school file managers.

I spent the weekend using Ubuntu 9.04 almost exclusively. Blame it on Apple.

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