Dell on Tuesday unveiled its first line of desktops equipped with Linux for the European market through its partner Quester, which will pre-load the Linspire OS on the OptiPlex systems.
The Dell desktops -- Quester sells the OptiPlex 170L with or without an LCD display -- come with Lindows' Linspire desktop Linux and OpenOffice, the open-source productivity suite.
Starting this week, more than 700 IT professionals will attend Linux education events staged by Novell and IBM in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Auckland. The vendors say their low-cost workshops will jump-start the exploitation of Linux in business beyond the pilot project, by demystifying the free operating system and exposing myths. These include a perception that Linux is complex and command-line-driven, difficult to use and understand, immature, hard to manage, not ready for important applications, has an unfamiliar user interface and requires people to do lots of retraining.
A friend got a new laptop with Windows XP pre-installed. "Does this come with an IRC program?" he asked. No, it doesn't. There are plenty of IRC programs for Windows, but you need to download and install them yourself. Word processing? Not included. Spreadsheet? Windows leaves you on your own yet again. I swear, by the time you buy or download all the software it takes to actually do something with Windows, you might as well install Linux. It would take a lot less time.
The choice of software to run our computers can get awfully depressing. On one hand, there's Windows XP -- expensive and woefully insecure, but it works on almost every machine out there. On the other, there's Mac OS X -- far more secure, but also expensive and restricted to Apple's own computers.
At Microsoft's Tech Ed conference in Amsterdam on Wednesday, a session was devoted to how, according to one Microsoft fan at least, the Linux kernel is beginning to resemble, well -- Windows.
The talk, given by Mark Russinovich, chief software architect for Winternals Software and co-author of Inside Windows 2000, 3rd edition (published by Microsoft press), was clearly delivered to a home crowd, and its message was clear: Linux is paying catch-up with Windows and the gap is narrowing.
After years of work, Novell Inc. announced Wednesday the availability of Mono 1.0, an open-source development platform based on Microsoft Corp.'s .Net framework.
The brainchild of noted open-source leader and developer Miguel de Icaza and Novell vice president of development, Mono is designed to enable software developers to create .Net applications that will work on Linux, Windows, Solaris and other operating systems.
Automating software testing allows you to run the same tests over a period of time, ensuring that you are really comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges. In this article, Linux Test Project team members share their methodology and rationale, as well as the scripts and tools they use to stress-test the Linux® kernel.
Linux software makers Red Hat and Novell said on Monday that they will begin offering RealNetworks' open-source media player with their operating system products. The two companies will start bundling RealNetworks' existing Helix Player on Monday and plan to offer upgrades to the upcoming RealPlayer 10 for Linux application when that product is introduced later this year. They also said they would work with RealNetworks to help integrate Helix with their own software. Media player applications allow people to open and run music and video files on their computers.
Dear suse-security-announce subscribers and SUSE LINUX users,Having provided security-relevant fixes for version 8.0 of our home userproduct, SUSE Linux, for two years, we would like to inform you that SUSELinux 8.0 will be discontinued for all architectures.
L33tdawg: Props to spoonfork for the link. The author certainly does have a point though...
