“In my last post, several people accused me of being anti-Microsoft. This is not true at all! I believe that Microsoft makes good products. Do you think they could attain a 95% market share without making a good product? That is not the way a market economy works.
“What I am opposed to are arbitrary [...]
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I wanted to take a minute to address something I find a little disturbing when Linux savvy people discuss “the switch” with relatively un-educated PC users. Lately the rhetoric has risen rapidly with the debated success or lack thereof with Windows Vista. I was reading an article on from Digg @ HowToForge.com that lists all [...]
If you have been under a rock, Dell is really close to offering Linux to consumers as well as business customers. There are quite a few guesses on which distributions Dell will choose, I thought I would throw my hat into the ring and offer the odds on a few distributions.
Analysts are saying an announcement [...]
20 Mar, 2007
Top 5 reasons why Linux is not ready for primetime as a desktop OS - Home User Perspective
Posted by: Jason Burns In: Linux
Everyone knows I am a big Linux fan lately. I have been using it on a machine at work, a machine at home and dual booted on my personal laptop recently. I wanted to take a few minutes to clear up why I use it, and even more so, why you probably shouldn’t.
To me, Linux [...]
If you have been following my Linux Laptop project, you know I have been quite busy on the mobile linux front. Today I decided to copy some tunes to my laptop so I would have some jams on the go.
I copied around 3,600 songs from my library to the notebook and was set to [...]
I thought I would drop in to share what I have been doing with my HP dv8000 laptop. It has been about a week in the making. The initial goal was to have Fedora Core 6 running, set up like my home desktop, in a dual boot with Windows Vista Enterprise to give me a [...]
19 Feb, 2007
Installing Fedora Core 6 on Dell Optiplex GX280 with SATA
Posted by: Jason Burns In: Linux
I read a lot of problems people were having, me as well, installing Fedora Core 6 on a SATA Dell Optiplex. I had a machine here at work, that had installed it previously just fine, but after a hard disk failure, and a new blank disk from Dell, I was starting from scratch.
The initial was [...]
What are your Windows future plans?
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- XP is fine, waiting for Windows 7. (30%)
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