We have said in previous articles that Microsoft and other brands cannot keep selling software for profit when there are alternatives for free thanks to open source in some cases.
With Ubuntu Linux, I do not have to put up with Evil. A quick trip into system / preferences / keyboard, and CapLock is just another ctrl key. Bye bye evil.
The cool part was last night when one of them (who is not very technically minded at all) turned to me and said, "Dad, guess what? I figured out widgets. They are SO cool!". It's the first time I recall her excited about something she could do on the computer. Dad thinks that is "SO cool".
Kubuntu Intrepid - Teenager Ready
Red Hat has released the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3 to download via the Red Hat Network. The beta shows that the upcoming third collection of updates for RHEL5 will again add numerous bug fixes as well including some extended functionality to the corporate focused Linux.
When Sabre actually benchmarked Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) running on Intel against Solaris on SPARC, it found quite a difference — to say the least. The Linux/Intel combination was three times faster than the Sun Unix solution, and when both licensing and hardware costs were taken into account it worked out about 90 percent cheaper, according to Wiseman.
