 BeerFiles is an in-your-face and sometimes irreverent blog concerning all things to do with IT, technology, people and the media from the point of view of a hard boiled technology journalist and commentator. Stan has been in the IT game for about a quarter of a century. In that time, he has seen and written about the rise and fall of more than a few IT players and made many friends, some of whom he has even crossed swords with on occasions. Everything in this blog is purely Stan’s opinion so if you agree, wish to expand upon, correct a post or tell Stan he’s a clueless know nothing, please feel free to do so.
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
As I was doing some research for another article, I ran across a forum in which small business users were discussing why they wanted a particular software product (Quickbooks) ported to Linux. One poster's comments caught my attention. What he said convinced me that all small businesses should be running Linux on their desktops.
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Sunday, 11 November 2007 |
Linux desktop users looking for good financial software to run natively can forget about Quicken and Quickbooks. One glance at Intuit's website should be enough to convince even devout users of that company's products that despite Quickbooks for Linux servers showing strong growth, a port to Linux desktops is a long way off and a Linux version of Quicken is not even on the radar. So what are the alternatives?
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Sunday, 11 November 2007 |
For any parent, myself included, setting your kids loose on the net is a daunting prospect. We have to do it because the net is a fact of life - it's in our schools, the workplace, public libraries and in many if not most homes of the developed world. Therefore, do we really have any option but to give them Linux?
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Friday, 09 November 2007 |
I've been a full-fledged Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon user for more than a week now, I'm completely off Microsoft Windows and I couldn't be happier. For some reason, however, I keep getting emails and posts urging me to try other supposedly superior Linux distributions for newbies - PCLinuxOS and SimplyMEPIS, among others. Intrigued, I have decided to check this out for myself. Is Ubuntu the best or merely the best backed distro?
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
Our story yesterday that Dell may be dropping its pre-installed Ubuntu program has been vehemently denied by Dell officials who have assured us and the source of the original story in The Inquirer that it's still full steam ahead for Linux at the company.
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
Hot off the press from UK site The Inquirer and the Ubuntu Forums is the news that Dell has ended its flirtation with pre-installed Ubuntu Linux in the UK. Does this mean that the US is next?
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Wednesday, 07 November 2007 |
As a committed Ubuntu Linux newbie, I've been feeling pretty pleased with my new distribution over the past couple of days. However, I've hit a telecommunications snag and, judging by the free flow of angst pervading all of the Linux forums I've visited, I'm not alone in my disgust.
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
Well the Linux desktop is certainly here and I can prove it because as of today I'm officially an Ubuntu user and even though things aren't perfect, I feel like I've finally escaped from jail. Those of you contemplating the move from Windows, however, had better be prepared to make some compromises and even a few sacrifices.
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
As many of us who watch the Linux market know, the past week has seen the announcement of two markedly different plug-and-play Linux computers. I was excited by one and not the other. To my surprise, the one that didn't interest me has taken off like a rocket to the moon while it is still too early say how the other will do. The good news, however, is that desktop Linux has finally gone mainstream.
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Sunday, 04 November 2007 |
While Windows advocates may smirk and say here we go again, as 2007 draws to a close I get the strong feeling that we may look back upon this year and recognize it with hindsight as the year that the Linux desktop finally arrived. There are a number of events that point to 2007 as being the turning point for Linux and it all started in January with the release of Windows Vista.
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Sunday, 04 November 2007 |
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My last commentary on the new Asus Eee PC Linux sub-notebook raised so many hackles among its fanboy users that I was amazed. First, I didn't realize the Eee PC has a fanatical fan club in Europe and second, how much they resemble some Apple fans in behaviour. As I received so many vitriolic comments, I thought I would clarify further why I think the Eee PC falls short of the mark of what's needed by users.
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