Anyway he is using the situation to show Karen how wonderful Linux is. At one point he was going to pop around and install it on her computer.
The city of Böblingen in the south of Germany next year will try out migrating to an Open Source desktop. It wants to have an alternative in place when its current proprietary licences run out around 2010.
Three of the city's about a dozen departments will be moving to a desktop based on the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, according to David Gümbel, an Open Source IT consultant helping the city administration with the migration.
As you can see, the Linux user has a plenty of choice when it comes to enjoying computer games. Compared to the Windows arsenal, the selection is still somewhat thin, but it's getting fatter (and better).
Overall, I’d have to say the usability features in gOS in specific (and Linux in general) are the biggest boon for her. You have no idea how sad it is seeing someone struggle to read the screen with a magnifying glass. The giant pictures and text for the few simple functions she uses are options that are specifically available in Linux and not to the same degree in other OSes. She couldn’t read the screen in XP before! I haven’t tried out the usability features in OSX, but she doesn’t have the money for a Mac anyway. Linux was really the only viable option in this scenario because of it’s cost ($0) and it’s ease of use. And judging from the way she was picking it up, I think she’ll be alright with it!
So, for what it’s worth, I’d just like to say “Thank you” to all the Linux developers who donate their time to those projects. You’ve literally helped my Grandmother see again.
After installing my initial thought was, “WTF!!!… where is my desktop!” I had no desktop anymore! I had always used my desktop to organize projects before. What was KDE doing ruining all this space? Then I learned about plasmoids.
I had offhandedly heard of plasmoids somewhere and forgot it as the concept just sounded odd. Well plasmoids can be best defined as desktop tools, Mac OS X users would call them widgets. I learned that there is a folder plasmoid that I was able to add to the desktop. And it does it so in a nice organized way...
I am pleased to announce the general release of Omega 10, a Linux based operating system and a community Fedora Remix for desktop and laptop users.
It is a installable Live CD for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems. It has all the features of Fedora 10 and a number of additional multimedia players and codecs. You can play any multimedia including MP3 music or commercial DVD's out of the box.
Orange has announced at its Orange Partner Camp in Cape Canaveral on Tuesday further details of its OpenAppliance platform for delivering IP-based services to SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) and SME users. Based on Ubuntu with Xen paravirtualisation, prototypes are expected to be ready for an open beta programme in the first quarter of that year, with a planned September launch date for the finished product.
Tilera is shipping a 36-core version of its 64-core Tile64 SoC (system-on-chip). Aimed at graphics-intensive embedded applications and networking devices, the TilePro36 clocks from 600MHz to 900MHz, consumes 9-13 Watts (typical), and runs Linux on each, some, or all cores.