“How much does the same thing cost for SLED?”This even links to Microsoft's Web site. Nice, eh? What a pleasant experience purchasing GNU/Linux from Xandros. This also applies to Linspire, which Xandros bought. They sell Debian with a Microsoft licence for imaginary software patents.
How much does the same thing cost for SLED? And what happens if a customer does not buy this so-called "patent assurance"?
It is sad to see that Xandros still has some presence in sub-notebooks, usually at the expense of GNU/Linux distributions that don't share a bed with Microsoft. From last week:
The slow-but-steady introduction of ARM-based netbooks is going to be interesting to watch. The above video from NetbookNews.com shows a Pegatron-brand netbook running Xandros Linux on a Freescale platform with an 800MHz ARM CPU, all in a fanless, super slim body that the guy in the video, Sascha, estimates to weigh around 1.75 pounds (800 grams).
Well I started out using the Xandros Linux on the EEE's and it worked great but I wanted more. So I tried Windows XP for a short time but XP was such a bloated and slow mess I went back to Xandros. Then along came UbuntuEEE (Now EasyPeasy) and I was really happy what it did for my 40G. Finally Canonical came out with Ubuntu 9.04 netbook remix and it's the bees knees for netbook OS's.
With major Linux distros like Ubuntu and Xandros embracing the technology, software availability should be improved. Broadband wireless deployments have accelerated sharply over the last year, and should continue to grow by the time the new MIDs appear next year.
A Brazilian Cloud services firm has implemented Scalix Hosted Edition email and collaboration platform to offer robust email and collaboration hosted services to their clients.
Imagine my delight when I received a copy of SLED 11 ... it was a polished Desktop with awesome features GNOME-Do is one them and totally a Gem. I could take the Evaluation disk to the Boss, it looked nice, he installed it, was amazed to see it integrate with Active Directory (no PhD required), he feels confident to present it to the Executive Board .. he is pleased with the support options, he feels happy, I feel happy, smiles all round.
Comments
Needs Sunlight
2009-06-15 13:04:45
Roy Schestowitz
2009-06-15 13:35:11
aeshna23
2009-06-15 13:01:04
Darren
2009-06-15 12:01:44
Roy Schestowitz
2009-06-15 12:30:36
TaQ
2009-06-15 12:08:10
Roy Schestowitz
2009-06-15 12:28:37
Roy Schestowitz
2009-06-15 12:32:30
Pedro
2009-06-15 09:58:43
I can see the ad coming out of there: €«IP protection, the only true interoperationality you'll ever see with 100% support from MS [you may see some other interop after the EU threatens; MS makes no promises about the exclusivity of such interop nor the extensionability of it.]€»
Roy Schestowitz
2009-06-15 14:09:08
aeshna23
2009-06-15 14:27:12
"The above covenant is personal to any given Customer and is non-transferable. By necessity, the covenant is conditioned upon the Customer providing Microsoft, upon its request, with sufficient information to verify which copies of Client Offerings and Server Offerings are Covered Products subject to the covenant."