GNU/Linux Rising: Relevant News Items From March
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-03-19 19:12:45 UTC
- Modified: 2014-03-19 19:12:45 UTC
Desktop
I'm sure there will be objections from people who want to define "the year of the Linux desktop" differently. There will be those fans of GNU/Linux distributions like Ubuntu who will object that the Linux Desktop has not arrived until we're all running KDE and Gnome. I fear those folks have a while to wait. Others will object because there are still so many copies of Windows and new PCs are still shipping with Windows. That's a fair point, but I believe even those users are actually Linux Desktop users. As I argued last year, Linux has already won on the Windows desktop.
Eurocom sent out a news release that beginning today they will be offering choices of operating systems in their line of GPU-upgradeable, high-performance, professional laptops. Besides the high-end laptop line-up, they will also be offering Linux options for their lightweight notebooks.
If your office runs 24/7, you'll have to do the migration in stages. You may have to migrate servers one at a time, and migrate departments group by group. So, some work gets paused, but most of your business will run during the entire migration process.
Linux has a reputation for being designed for geeks only, but that’s old history. Many modern Linux distributions exceed the user-friendliness of XP, and they’re free to download. If you don’t like the feel of one, you can easily switch to another. What’s more, each Linux distribution comes loaded with useful software such as productivity suites, modern browsers like Chrome or Firefox, and photo and music management apps.
"This is a subject very near and dear to me," Linux Rants blogger Mike Stone told Linux Girl over a fresh Tequila Tux down at the blogosphere's Punchy Penguin Saloon.
Though Stone spent several years teaching "how to" computer courses for faculty and staff at a local university back in the 90s, "all those years barely prepared me for my greatest challenge: my own mother," he said.
To wit: After buying his parents a Windows 95 computer way back when, "I sat her down and showed her how to use the basic hardware," he explained. Yet "even after hours a day over the course of weeks, the computer was too much for her. Windows just had too many options, and she kept getting herself into places she couldn't get out of.
"I literally spent years looking for environments that would make her comfortable," Stone went on. "She went through the Windows OSes (95, 98, ME and finally XP) and some Linuxes -- Red Hat first and then a couple variations of Ubuntu. She always found ways to get herself into trouble."
I’ve been a computer user since around 1991, when we got our first PC, a Tandy from Radio Shack (almost $1,000), which came with Windows 3.1. Since then I’ve used each and every version of that operating system (OS), and still do. But at home and for personal use, it’s Linux for me. Why? Well that’s a question with many answers.
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The biggest driving factor for software developers to work together with open source is cost. It is much cheaper for them to cooperate through open source than it is to remain isolated with proprietary software, asserted Inktank VP of Product Management Neil Levine. "You can no longer rely on one particular vendor to provide everything you need with regard to technology."
After the Desktop
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QOOQ is a durable tablet designed for use in then kitchen. It's even got its very own Linux-based OS...
There was a time, back before smartphones and tablets, when most of us used, at most, only three operating systems.
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For months now David Herrmann has been working on a new project known as OpenWFD for open-source WiFi displays on Linux. OpenWFD is an open-source implementation of the WiFi Display Standard / Miracast. That work is now showing success and as part of that Herrmann has just announced Miraclecast as a component to providing open-source Miracast/WFD support on the Linux desktop.
Chromebook
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Chromebooks are making a big statement in the laptop world: NPD Group Inc. reported that Chromebook sales accounted for 21 percent of all notebook sales last year. For devices that are functionally little different from tablets — designed for basic tasks like checking email and web browsing — they're growing fast. Even as the tablet market continues to grow, capturing 22 percent of the entire personal computing market just last year, Chromebooks are giving people an alternative to rectangular touch screens.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- [Meme] Mentality of a Loser
- "There is someone who created a project used by billions; I failed to create project used by billions, so I'll take down someone who did"
- [Meme] Plundering the Commons
- Free software is licensed to restrict privatisation and hoarding
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- Hardware Shortages If 'Hot' Conflict Spreads to Korea, Japan, China, and Taiwan
- except many "supply chain" shortages
- Hate Crimes and Cybercrimes
- Not agreeing with us on software issues is one thing; that does not justify committing crimes against us
- A Classic Example of Concern Trolling
- Embrace reason
- [Meme] Chipzilla's Arrogance (False Assumption That the Customer Will Accept Every Customer-Hostile Addition)
- "Maybe you can remove the M.E.? Please?"
- More Love, Less Greed
- The Free software movement is inherently about sharing
- Links 20/10/2024: Melodic Design, Qubes OS, and Bloated Web
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 19, 2024
- IRC logs for Saturday, October 19, 2024
- [Meme] How 'Editorial Control' and/or 'Fact-Checking' Work in Social Control Media
- "I saw a link with many 'likes' on it, so it must be accurate"
- IBM: RMS Asked a Girl on a Date. We at IBM Are Bribing and Receiving Bribes. Cancel RMS.
- The FSF is half female now
- "The Definition of Insanity"
- We've seen this and been through all this before
- The 'New' Laptop as a Reminder of Why I Love GNU/Linux
- days ago we acquired a 'new' (used) laptop
- [Meme] The Way Things Used to Be...
- UNIX is 55 already
- Fun Weekend, But Very Slow News
- we welcome topic suggestions/recommendations
- 2021 Deja Vu: The 'Counter-Petition' Defending Richard Stallman (RMS) Gets a Lot More Support Than the Hateful Screed
- Don't listen to the RMS haters
- x86 Drowning in Competition, Bug Doors, Complexity, and Bloat
- Making defective chips for a number of decades was sheer Hubris; they just assumed people would continue buying Intel machines forever
- Links 19/10/2024: Nokia Lays Off 2,000 Employees, IMF Loans, Lammy to China
- Links for the day
- Links 19/10/2024: OpenAI, Microsoft Going Deeper Into Debt; FTC Rules Make It Easier To Cancel Services
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 19/10/2024: Against Books as Only Possible Legitimation, Megacorporate Copyright Pirates
- Links for the day
- Links 19/10/2024: European Perspective, Windows TCO, and Google Woes
- Links for the day
- [Meme] When Hatred (or Envy) Comes First
- A lot of attacks on Torvalds and Stallman (Linux and GNU founders, respectively) fall under this category
- What "Ethical Source" Looks Like in Practice
- People ban people or deny them service (or prevent them running a program) for merely not agreeing with them
- The State of GAFAM and the I's (IBM and Intel)
- Technology and "tech giants" will continue to exist, but they won't be what they once were
- The Drew DeVault Report: Taking Out His Frustration on Other People While Doing Drugs
- Be more like Fabrice Bellard
- Links 19/10/2024: Riot and Intel Layoffs, Attacks on Journalists
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 18, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, October 18, 2024
- Gemini Links 19/10/2024: Defending RMS and why "ethical source" "is closed source with different labelling"; Elpher Queue/Pop Key-Bindings
- Links for the day
- Links 18/10/2024: TSMC Surges, Hamas Leader Killed
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/10/2024: "In Support of Richard Stallman" and Adapting Ploum's sites to gwit
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Your Negative Energy Only Makes Him Stronger
- Superman bulletproof meme
- Half a Dozen More Public Talks by Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) This Month
- Even seven, based on his front page today
- Links 18/10/2024: Russia Against 'Childfree Propaganda' and Germany’s Green Transition Is Faltering
- Links for the day
- "Free Software Is Under Attack! (Will You Help Defend It?)"
- Rebuttals are appearing online, including analysis of the underlying methods and why they backfire on the perpetrators (as they did back in 2021)
- Links 18/10/2024: Kangaroo Courts Spread to Lisbon, Riot Games Layoffs
- Links for the day
- "FASTCash" is Not a "Linux" Thing, It Was Merely Extended to Also Have a Variant for Already-Compromised Ubuntu 22.04
- Is that the fault of Linux? No. But notice these daunting headlines.
- Gemini Links 18/10/2024: Florida Water and Messaged Mediums
- Links for the day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 17, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, October 17, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day