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UK government trials desktop Linux
News The OGC deal follows on from the NHS announcing on Friday that it will trial JDS as a Microsoft alternative that could save taxpayers "millions" of pounds if it was rolled out across almost a million desktops in the health service.
[December 10, 2003, 13:05]
Nokia to buy major Linux company
News In practice, Qt is the only set of libraries and tools available on all desktops and on mobiles. Nokia is to buy Trolltech, the company whose Linux-based Qt application-development framework is at the core of many PC and mobile applications.
[January 28, 2008, 10:29]
Embedded Linux alive and kicking
News The company has a powerful ally in its vast developer community, but most of those programmers work on desktops and servers, not embedded systems. The hype that spawned several Linux start-ups has vanished, but a pioneer in operating systems for...
[January 24, 2002, 8:52]
Wal-Mart trims prices of Linux-based PCs
News Buyers can still get a number of new Microtel desktops, starting with one that has a 1GHz Duron processor from Advanced Micro Devices, without an operating system, via Walmart.com. In keeping with Wal-Mart's mantra, the Microtel desktops PCs are...
[June 18, 2002, 11:23]
math: Windows 7 + netbook = failure - GNU/Linux as remaining winner!
Blog Comment In my immediate experience, with three different laptops and two different desktops, not only does the WiFi adapter work properly, but my Cellular HSPA (Wireless Broadband) card works just fine as well!
[March 9, 2009, 15:05]
Fedora Linux
Downloads Instead, you can learn from a concise task-based approach to using Fedora as both a desktop and server operating system.In this book, you'll learn how to:* Install Fedora and perform basic administrative tasks* Configure the KDE and GNOME desktops...
[January 4, 2010, 5:59]
The Range of Linux Distributions
Blog There are even some distributions which fall beyond the "all-in-ones" on my scale, as they are derived from those but go further by using different desktops, adding even more packages, and sometimes using their own installer or utilities.
[December 15, 2008, 10:12]
Specsavers opts for nationwide Linux migration
News The company runs Intel-based Fujitsu Siemens hardware for both servers and store desktops. Britain's leading optician, Specsavers, has migrated from Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in all its 830 stores.
[June 18, 2007, 16:19]
SUSE Linux 10 review
Reviews SUSE offers the KDE and GNOME desktops, and we chose the latter. SUSE Linux 10 includes some features not yet supported in Novell Linux Desktop, but which may come on-board the enterprise flagship in due course.
[November 14, 2005, 15:50]
Euro firms cool on Vista and Linux
News Other findings included a "general trend of replacing corporate desktops with laptops" and the fact that 40 percent of companies will invest in email archiving within the next two years. European businesses are only considering migrating to Linux...
[November 15, 2006, 11:44]
Ubuntu Linux 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) - Configuration Tips
Blog Power Management: Especially if you are using a laptop computer, but can also be useful for desktops; if you see a battery or power icon in the Panel, right-click on it and choose Preferences. But I still have to move back and forth between Windows...
[October 31, 2008, 9:47]
Corel sells Netwinder division to HCC
News But Corel is far from abandoning the Linux-based desktops. Corel has sold off its NetWinder thin client desktops to Hardware Computing Canada (HCC) less then a month after it officially launched the products.
[January 21, 1999, 12:08]
Microsoft admits targeting Wine users
Talkback Desktops were about 50/50. One MS Server one Linux server. Upon this announcement, I took a couple of days to think about it then ordered the complete migration of our three city operation to Linux. Up until last Monday, my business ran a split...
[February 28, 2005, 8:14]
Microsoft and Xandros extend partnership
News Xandros has created a Linux distribution based on Debian for both desktops and servers. Microsoft has extended its pact with Linux distributor Xandros. The pact is one of a series of agreements between the software giant and Linux companies, all...
[August 16, 2007, 16:53]
Red Hat: Sun 'took the Microsoft approach'
News Last year, Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik thought Sun Microsystems' open source-based alternative to Microsoft's widely used Office software would encourage broader use of the Linux operating system on desktops and perhaps loosen the iron...
[June 10, 2002, 10:11]
Ibex server features could be key for Canonical
Blog What server side, you may be asking.with Ubuntu on about 60 percent of Linux desktops, it's easy to forget that the operating system has a server version, in the face of strong marketing from Red Hat and the others.
[October 28, 2008, 15:03]
Monolithic OS upgrades are so over
Blog Comment The power users have switched to a mix of XP, OS X, and Linux desktops. We have no plans to switch any of our servers over to new versions of Windows and are gradually moving to Linux and Unix servers.
[September 28, 2007, 5:04]
RHEL 5.4 beta arrives
News It includes a standalone hypervisor, RHEV-H, as well as virtualisation managers for servers and desktops. On Thursday, Red Hat released a beta-test version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, the first version to incorporate virtualisation based on KVM.
[July 2, 2009, 17:27]
French tax agency plans massive OpenOffice deployment
News It may also consider migrating to Linux desktops in the future, although Lapeyre said this would require much more work. Jean-Marie Lapeyre, chief technical officer at the French tax agency said it plans to migrate 80,000 desktops from Microsoft...
[November 9, 2005, 17:25]
Open-source projects at risk from repository flaw
News Groups developing the Gnome and KDE Linux desktops, the Apache Web server and large Linux distributions, are among those that use servers with the source code databases. The CVS Project and major Linux and BSD distributions have posted advisories...
[May 20, 2004, 15:50]
