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Vienna's Open Source Desktop Migration Takes Off
News Vienna's 'soft' migration to open source on the desktop is proving more popular with users than expected, according to Erwin Gillich, the head of IT at Vienna's municipal authority. Users at the city administration have been offered the option of...
[November 21, 2005, 15:40]
Vienna's Open Source Desktop Migration Takes Off
Talkback I read you article, "Vienna's open source desktop migration takes off" with interest, as we are experiencing the same phenomena here in the states. My name is Morgan Lim, co-founder and COO of RaptorHead, LLC.www.raptorhead.com) an open-source...
[November 22, 2005, 16:33]
Secure Open Source Desktop Gets Public Funding
News Netproject announced on Tuesday that the Department of Trade and Industry had contributed £132,000 to its Secure Open Source Desktop programme. Eddie Bleasdale, director of netproject, said that the Secure Open Source Desktop was suitable for...
[May 31, 2005, 18:15]
Secure Open Source Desktop Gets Public Funding
Talkback Easy. Don't use Intel. Mount all writeable partitions noexec and all partitions with executables read-only. Use a restricted shell by default and run KDE (or fluxbox) in kiosk mode. Maintenance is done using sudo, and if necessary calling a non...
[June 1, 2005, 8:01]
Secure Open Source Desktop Gets Public Funding
Talkback Nicely done, although I would also add 'tie the user up and lock them in a small tea chest'.
[June 1, 2005, 13:35]
Vienna's Open Source Desktop Migration Takes Off
Talkback BRAVO VIENNA! Once you make the switch you can rest assured of stability and security. Downtime will be virtually non-existent. Most Linux systems today are not that hard to get the hang of and you might actually start learning instead of acting...
[November 22, 2005, 12:42]
Sun's Desktop Demise Proves Open Source's Power
Talkback Is this reallt Sun's desktop demise considering how much they have put into StarOffice - which still very muhc runs on Windows? What does this mean for StarOffice though?
[July 4, 2005, 15:09]
Sun's Desktop Demise Proves Open Source's Power
Leader Open source software may encompass intellectual freedom, but it obeys the same commercial rules as anything else. Here, open source does not obey the same rules as proprietary software - a factor that may have made Sun's decision easier to take.
[June 29, 2005, 14:15]
Sun's Desktop Demise Proves Open Source's Power
Talkback I still feel some sympathy for Sun in its struggle to surwive. To "use" Linux and fend it off at the same time is a hard task. 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]
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...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Open Source Developers Provide 'glimmer Of Hope'
Talkback Just another source of continued resource drain. Odd that the windows desktop starts to crawl after a mere few days of running 7x24 while the Linux desktop chugs away without a degradation in speed for months at a time.
[April 22, 2005, 18:34]
Open-source Fight Staged On 'wrong Battleground'
Talkback Windows accounts for over 90% of the desktop market would be futile. This is completely unrealistic. An application needs an OS to run on, and everyone who tries to compete with MS in the application space one windows loses horribly.
[November 13, 2003, 19:47]
Open Source Renders Patching A Problem
Talkback Various tools exist that will notify you when updates are available: Fedora has a script called check4updates, a desktop applet called rhn-applet, and a mailing list. This is what Yum and Apt are for on RPM and DEB-based systems respectively.
[November 18, 2005, 13:39]
ODF Summit Joins Open Source Activists
Talkback You may wish to point out the interrelation between the monopolies MS has on document formats, office suites and desktop operating systems. Again confusion of a format with programs. OpenDocument is a format.
[November 10, 2005, 15:13]
Strengths Of Open Source Opposing Microsoft Patent Threats
Blog Comment I think it should start with installation of each OS, with people documenting, measuring times, then activations and application installations, then playing media and desktop effects (Aero vs. freedom:
[June 7, 2007, 5:39]
Sun 'won't Abandon' Open-source Lobby
News Sun's Schwartz asserts that the company's Java Community Process -- by which interested companies can influence the direction of Java -- "embodies.the spirit of open standards" and counterattacks that the lack of standards in open-source software...
[April 7, 2004, 8:45]
Strengths Of Open Source Opposing Microsoft Patent Threats
Blog Comment Regards the desktop Vista vs GNU/Linux distros competition, I suggest the same machines used in the server competition be used. Yes, I will give thought to the rules and come up with something more fleshed out.
[June 7, 2007, 23:01]
SAP Slams Open Source 'socialism'
Talkback But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsoft's Vista is not copying Linux, it is copying Apple. "We all talk about how great Linux is," Agassi reportedly said. This guy haves no idea where he's talking about.
[November 12, 2005, 15:17]
SAP Slams Open Source 'socialism'
Talkback And I suppose 3D desktop experience is also not innovative.because before Avalon/WPF ideas came long after project looking glass (Apple's Aqua is incredible, but is not really 3D) No innovation? so. PHP is not innovation, regardless that half the...
[November 12, 2005, 17:56]
Microsoft: 'We Should Learn From Open Source'
Talkback We ditched Microsoft at our business, and run Linux on the desktop, simply because it's a better choice. Any chance I could get Tipp's number? I'd like to talk to him about it. Scott
[November 13, 2003, 0:24]
