The author of Ryan’s Tech Blog has written a pretty good post on how Vista compares to Ubuntu.
The article covers eleven sections ranging from “How to obtain Vista” to “Mojave is still the worst ad campaign ever conceived.”
Posts Tagged ‘linux’
Why Vista is not ready for Linux and Mac users
Sunday, August 10th, 2008IBM to Deliver Microsoft-Free Desktops Worldwide
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
According to a report on MarketWatch, IBM is teaming up with Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu), Novell and Red Hat to deliver Microsoft-free desktops worldwide.
“The slow adoption of Vista among businesses and budget-conscious CIOs, coupled with the proven success of a new type of Microsoft-free PC in every region, provides an extraordinary window of opportunity for Linux,” said Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president for IBM Lotus Software. “We’ll work to unlock the desktop to save our customers money and give freedom of choice by offering this industry-leading solution.”
Canonical, which sells subscription support for Ubuntu, a Linux operating system that scores high marks on usability and “the cool factor,” will re-distribute Lotus Symphony via their repositories. Symphony 1.1 will be available through the Ubuntu repositories by the end of August. General availability will coincide with the Lotus Symphony 1.2 release expected to be available by the end of October 2008.
MarketWatch [via Slashdot]
28 fold increase in Linux preinstall sales since Vista
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
A 28 fold increase in the sale of computers with Linux preinstalled on them, sounds impressive, does it not? Well it is, even with you take into account that of all PCs sold in the UK last January through indirect channels, only 0.1% had Linux preloaded.
Sales of Linux preinstalled computers broke the 2% barrier in May, after the latest release of Ubuntu, the distro that has taken the world by storm.
This is all very impressive, especially when you consider that amount of money that Microsoft spends on marketing and when you consider the amount of influence Microsoft has with PC vendors and decision makers.
Atheros unveils free Linux driver for its 802.11n devices
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Atheros has released ath9k to the community with an aim of including it in the Linux kernel. The ath9k driver supports all Atheros IEEE 802.11n devices.
The following chipsets are supported:
- AR5418+AR5133
- AR5416+AR5133
- AR5416+AR2133
- AR9160
- AR9280
- AR9281
madwifi.org [via Slashdot]
Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux
Saturday, July 26th, 2008
A user on Ubuntu Forums has details on Foxconn’s refusal to support Linux for it’s motherboards. He even goes as far as disassembling the BIOS and then informing Foxconn of what is causing the problem, but to no avail.
I disassembled my BIOS to have a look around, and while I won’t post the results here,I’ll tell you what I did find.
They have several different tables, a group for Windws XP and Vista, a group for 2000, a group for NT, Me, 95, 98, etc. that just errors out, and one for LINUX.
The one for Linux points to a badly written table that does not correspond to the board’s ACPI implementation, causing weird kernel errors, strange system freezing, no suspend or hibernate, and other problems, using my modifications below, I’ve gotten it down to just crashing on the next reboot after having suspended, the horrible thing about disassembling any program is that you have no commenting, so it’s hard to tell which does what, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to buy a copy of Vista just to get the crashing caused by Foxconn’s BIOS to stop, I am not going to be terrorized.
I think that the best reply he got from Foxconn must be:
Dear Ryan,
Stop sending us these!!!
Ubuntu Forums [via Slashdot]
5 Most Popular Linux Gadgets
Saturday, July 19th, 2008-
- DSLinux
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- iPod Linux
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- Xbox Linux
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- Nintendo Gamecube Linux
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- PS2 Linux
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- Linksys WRT54G
As many Linux aficionados will know, Linux has been squeezed into many gadgets that weren’t designed for it. Here’s a list of what are probably the five most popular targets.
- Nintendo DS
- Apple iPod
- Microsoft Xbox
- Nintendo GameCube
- Sony Playstation
As many commenters have noted in the original article, the Linksys WRT54 should have also made the list.
Tech Source from Bohol [via OSNews]
Linux 2.6.26 Released
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008“2.6.26 adds support for read-only bind mounts, x86 PAT (Page Attribute Tables), PCI Express ASPM (Active State Power Management), ports of KVM to IA64, S390 and PPC, other KVM improvements including basic paravirtualization support, preliminary support of the future 802.11s wireless mesh standard, much improved webcam support thanks to a driver for UVC devices, a built-in memory tester, a kernel debugger, BDI statistics and parameters exposure in /sys/class/bdi, a new /proc/PID/mountinfo file for more accurate information about mounts, per-process securebits, device white-list for containers users, support for the OLPC, some new drivers and many small improvements”
Kernel Newbies [via Slashdot]
Linux felon forced to install Windows
Monday, June 30th, 2008“A Linux user who was jailed for uploading a film onto a peer-to-peer service has been told he will have to switch to Windows if he wants to use a computer again. ”
Does this count as cruel and unusual punishment?
Girl Reviews Linux laptop
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Once upon a time the title of this post might have been “Girl Uses Linux”, but fortunately things have moved on from that. Today there are indeed members of the fairer sex using The Penguin to power their computers, but it remains quite rare to see reviews written from their perspective. The closest we seem to get is along the lines of “I installed Linux on my girlfriend’s/wife’s/etc computer, and she said…”
Well, anyway, here’s a link to a review of a Linux-based laptop (ZaReason UltraLapSR) written by Ms. MacKenzie.
Top 10 Linux financial tools
Monday, June 30th, 2008If you’re looking for financial tools to run on a Linux system, it’ll be worth your time to have a look at this article on TechRepublic. Note that not all of the tools are open source.
- GnuCash (I personally use this)
- KMyMoney
- Moneydance
- Appgen MyBooks
- NolaPro
- Linux Business Accounting Systems BasicBooks
- Quasar Accounting
- SQL-Ledger
- Rapid Graphing Software for Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities
- Crossover Office