"You can't charge 100 bucks for an operating system on a machine that costs $299," O'Donnell said. But he added that Microsoft would probably prefer to cut its margins rather than cede ground to Linux.
1. No start button
2. No Notepad, Paint or Internet Explorer.
3. All others use Windows
4. I found it to be unusable, when I tried it 5 yrs ago
5. It is very slow! (when trying it out from a live cd)
So Microsoft in its infinite wisdom has stuck it to the open source community, yet again. They have shut us out of Hotmail. Yawn. Like, who cares? Even Microsoft devotees hate the new Hotmail. Yet, to some people they see this as one more sign that Microsoft is out to get us. “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” cry all of the open source Chicken Littles. Has it come to this?
Most of the rest are built using Linux and open source web server software Apache, which Aptimize hopes to support within a month.
"We started talking to Google a month ago and they are really keen for us to do a Linux Apache version and have connected us with a number of people in the US who are interested in that as well."
Ryan Gordon (a.k.a. Icculus) has announced the release of a Crysis Wars (the multi-player version of EA's Crysis Warhead) server for Linux. Crysis Warhead is an expansion to the original Crysis game and was released for Microsoft Windows in September.
1: Linus Torvalds
Shaun Nichols: It's one thing to write a complete computer program. It takes an entirely different level of geekdom to write a computer operating system. Compound that with the fact that said operating system is a re-write of the most successful network operating environment of all time, and then - as the icing on the cake - giving the code away to the rest of the world for free and you'll start to understand why Linus Torvalds earned the number one spot.
One story jokingly tossed around is that Torvalds wrote all of the code for the Linux kernel on the back of a shovel over the course of one cold Finish winter. The reality is only slightly less amazing: the 21 year-old student wrote the first versions of his Unix clone in his spare time as a way to connect with servers at the University of Helsinki in 1991.
I am totally in love with my new Puppy flash installation. It does everything I need it to do, is fast and very stable and is tremendous fun to use. This is one Puppy that is definitely not just for Christmas - it is a faithful friend you will want to keep by your side all year round.
After starting a new job this year though I was brought back around to Linux on the desktop. My first day at the office I was asked "so do you want Windows or Linux"? No brainer for me, even with my past pains on the desktop. Linux. (Oh, and they also asked me to pick a hostname themed off of a beer - I thought, man, I made the right choice coming here.) That was how I formally met Ubuntu. I ended up with a Hardy Heron box that has worked really really well.
DAILY INTEL: The semiconductor giant Intel is aggressively pursuing trademark infringement lawsuits, hitting small shops with complaints, The Recorder reports. Intel is going after a one-man company, Intellelectric, for alleged trademark violation. "Trademark enforcement is not unusual for companies with famous marks like Intel. But the number of suits sets the Santa Clara-based company apart," according to the Recorder report. This year alone, Intel has sued 15 companies like Intellelectric with the word "intel" in their name.
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