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Linux And Open Source Software As A Desktop Platform
White Papers This paper also discusses IDC's model of desktop software use and the increasing adoption of new approaches to helping workers use information technology effectively. This white paper examines the major technology shifts illustrated by IDC's model...
[May 30, 2004, 1:03]
Vienna's Open Source Desktop Migration Takes Off
Talkback Most Linux systems today are not that hard to get the hang of and you might actually start learning instead of acting like a robot. BRAVO VIENNA! Once you make the switch you can rest assured of stability and security.
[November 22, 2005, 12:42]
Ballmer's Attack On Open Source Boosts Linux, Say OSIA
Talkback I can say to XP is a very good chance for linux desktop When my company will jump to linux desktop in 3 years all the dificulties which came with multi user OS will be learned and wellknowed and comparison between linux and next W ?
[November 2, 2004, 10:39]
Sun's Desktop Demise Proves Open Source's Power
Talkback To "use" Linux and fend it off at the same time is a hard task. I still feel some sympathy for Sun in its struggle to surwive. The software Sun has given to the OSS is StarOffice. StarOffice was originally a German software that Sun bought and...
[June 29, 2005, 20:02]
PerfSuite: An Accessible, Open Source Performance Analysis Environment For Linux
White Papers After a year of public beta availability and production deployment on Linux clusters that rank among the largest-scale in the country, PerfSuite is gaining acceptance as a user-oriented and flexible software tool set that is as valuable on the...
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
Linux Not MS' Only Open-source Target
News Rumours have also persisted that Microsoft is actively working on porting its Office desktop suite and/or its Internet Explorer browser to Linux. A number of posters on the Linux news site slashdot.org expressed concern that Microsoft might...
[June 3, 1999, 8:17]
Vienna's Open Source Desktop Migration Takes Off
Talkback I am not sure when poeple will migrate completely to Linux but as for "soft migration--open source apps on Windows" it certainly is happening faster than I can anticipate. I read you article, "Vienna's open source desktop migration takes off" with...
[November 22, 2005, 16:33]
Ballmer's Attack On Open Source Boosts Linux, Say OSIA
News In a brief riposte to Ballmer's detailed executive e-mail to clients entitled Customer Focus: Comparing Windows with Linux and Unix, Open Source Industry Australia director Con Zymaris said "although it is quite clear that Steve greatly...
[November 1, 2004, 12:59]
Pioneering Desktop Linux Project Put On Ice
News The next stage of the project was to be a Linux migration on the desktop.The suspension of this project has been reported by analysts as evidence that open source software isn't ready for mass deployment on the desktop
[September 5, 2006, 16:10]
Outlook Clone Links Linux To MS Exchange
News Ximian has supported the open-source Gnome desktop software project for Linux computers for some time; indeed, Ximian co-founder Miguel de Icaza was the founder of Gnome. Ximian, long an open-source software company, will do business the...
[December 4, 2001, 9:59]
KDE Developers Focus On Accessibility
News Developers behind the next version of KDE, an open-source Linux desktop environment, are trying to make their software more accessible to people with disabilities, a conference has heard. The next version of KDE, which will either be called 3.4 or...
[August 25, 2004, 17:35]
KDE To Include Google-type Desktop Search
News Developers of the open-source Linux desktop environment KDE have announced plans to simplify searching for files on the KDE desktop by adding a Google-style search feature. But some in the open-source community doubt whether a Linux desktop will...
[August 26, 2004, 12:35]
SuSE Linux Gets Desktop Search
News SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 will include Beagle, an open source desktop search tool that makes it easier for users to find various types of files, including documents, emails, IM conversations and code.
[March 7, 2005, 16:25]
SuSE To Push Desktop Linux
News SuSE plans to announce in January an effort to bring the open-source Linux operating system to more desktop computers, an attack on Microsoft that will be bolder than similar initiatives from Red Hat and Sun Microsystems.
[November 19, 2002, 12:19]
UK Councils Dump Windows For Linux
News Two councils, Newham in London and Nottingham City Council, are examining the feasibility of shifting all their 11,500 staff desktop computers from Windows to Linux with open source desktop applications by the end of the year, according to E...
[June 6, 2003, 13:52]
Real Enables Windows Media On Linux
News RealNetworks will release open source software this year that will let Linux computers play Windows Media files. It will release open source code to play the files as part of the Helix Community project it launched to bring RealNetworks technology...
[August 16, 2006, 8:40]
No Office On Linux 'at This Time'
News Microsoft has rejected porting its Office productivity suite to Linux anytime soon, despite the growing popularity of open source on the desktop. On the specific issue of Office for Linux, Eric Raymond, a prominent figure in the open source...
[October 5, 2005, 17:45]
HP To Support Mandrake Linux On The Desktop
News Linux is based on an open source licence that prevents any one company from owning the software, and competes against Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system, which is kept under tight proprietary control.
[January 30, 2002, 17:04]
StarOffice Meets Star Wars
News StarOffice, Sun's open source productivity application suite that includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database applications for the Solaris, Windows and Linux platforms, would replace Applix on more than 10,000 of DISA's...
[June 26, 2001, 14:50]
Linux Is Dead, Long Live Linux
News Dell Computer and other industry giants may be pessimistic about Linux's chances on the desktop, but HP executive and Linux veteran Bruce Perens believes the open source OS will still triumph in the end.
[May 25, 2001, 17:03]
