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linux.conf.au: Getting the smalltalk on the road
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Friday, 02 November 2007
Every year (bar one) since 1999, around 800 people have got together on an annual basis to discuss an operating system that was for a long time deemed to be on the fringes. These days that description does not apply, but the gathering is still as informal as that inaugural session during the tech boom.
 
Miguel's delusions of grandeur
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Tuesday, 30 October 2007
What is Miguel de Icaza's latest game? His obsession with tailgating everything that Microsoft develops - and trying to impress the company by producing Linux equivalents - now seems to be spreading to others as well.
 
Red Hat: time to come into the 21st century
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Friday, 26 October 2007
Just yesterday morning I was admiring the features of Fedora Core 5 on an iBook at the home of a man who is in many ways my Linux guru. He has the distribution running on various computers all made by Apple and I was quite impressed with what the developers have managed to achieve.
 
Ubuntu: where to from here?
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007
In business, as in many other things in life, it is relatively easy to plan for failure. I guess we all do it in some small way, one of the most common being the way people back up their digital personal files to guard against hardware failure or file corruption. But how does one plan for success?
 
The patent wars have begun
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Friday, 19 October 2007
When Steve Ballmer blurted out on October 9 that Linux was violating patents held by Microsoft and specifically named Red Hat, it was an indicator that the next phase in the campaign of harassment and extortion of companies dealing in free and open source software was about to begin.
 
Mandriva 2008: keeping the faith
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Tuesday, 16 October 2007
Linux users - you've just got to love them. Utter anything close to an adverse comment about the Linux distributions they use and boy, do they hit you with a lot of verbal insults. Say a few nice things about the same distribution and you become number one on their list of "people who make this earth a worthwhile place in which to live."
 
openSUSE 10.3: why did Novell ever bother?
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Friday, 12 October 2007
Linux users don't accept criticism of their chosen distribution easily - that's probably why a number of reactions to my last piece about openSUSE tended to be somewhat short of making a point.
 
openSUSE 10.3: one step forward, two steps back
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007
These days when you download a Linux distribution and burn it to CD, you would expect that it would not take too much of an effort to have a look at it. Unless, of course, it's one of three distributions which are aimed at so-called geeks - Gentoo, Debian and Slackware.
 
Crossing the Windows pain threshold
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Friday, 05 October 2007
When does one reach the tipping point, the point at which one will not rest until one changes operating systems? Or, to put it another way, what kind of pain threshold are Windows users willing to tolerate before they cry out to be rescued?
 
Novell uses Microsoft FUD to market itself
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Tuesday, 02 October 2007
For some time, we have not heard anything about the patent sellout which Novell inked with Microsoft 11 months ago. Microsoft has since used the deal as the basis for spreading FUD about Linux, with claims that the free operating system could be in violation of as many as 235 patents which Microsoft claims to own.
 
Selling Linux: what Dell could do
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Friday, 28 September 2007
Recently I've been devoting some space to a discussion of Dell's efforts to sell Linux on certain PCs and laptops among its range of models. There's also been discussion of why this effort appears to be somewhat half-hearted.
 
Dell and Linux: uneasy bedfellows
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007
An interesting point that has been highlighted as a result of one American reviewer, Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal, having obtained an Ubuntu-loaded Dell laptop for a review, is the fact that Dell appears to be plastering a vanilla Ubuntu installation on these machines and then selling them.
 
Linux: understanding it takes time
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Friday, 21 September 2007
Linux users tend to get all excited when a mainstream publication picks up any distribution and deems it worthy of review - even if the conclusions of the reviewer concerned turn out to be negative.
 
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