Mossberg's Ubuntu Linux verdict: nope
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Ubuntu doesn't measure up to Mac OS X or Windows for average users, influential WSJ tech reviewer concludes.
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Eat your Meat Casts Site News I have an apology for all the hardware geniuses and open source software experts out there.â¦
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The two second-tier Linux companies will adopt common Linux software and engineering. Alas, this idea doesn't have a great history of success.
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Linux wasn't everywhere at CES, but it was close, making it impossible to see Everything with Linux in it. But we tried. read more
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Blog: Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth says 'no thanks' to patent protection deals like the ones Microsoft has signed with other Linux distributors.
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Let's see how long have I used Linux as a desktop? Hmmm. Over 10 years? That's right. And the first issue I had at that time was finding an easy way to get to my ISP. The second issue at the time was the lack of a graphical web browser. Then Netscape produced an unsupported one that worked fine.
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Not surprisingly, the company advises against using vLite, or other tools that make changes to which components of the OS are installed. Such changes could make a system unstable or prevent future updates from installing properly, it says.
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Ziff Davis - Graphics library and kernel functions are open to attack, but the current Linux kernel addresses the problems.
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Can Linus Torvalds and Sun's Jonathan Schwartz find common ground on Linux and OpenSolaris?
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"OK" results aren't good enough for Dell anymore. That's great news.
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Canonical chief executive Mark Shuttleworth has made it clear that Ubuntu isn&#39;t interested in forming a deal with Microsoft along the lines of those recently reached by Linspire, Xandros and Novell.
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Mandrakesoft is on the Move. "Move" is specifically geared toward beginners to eschew the perception that Linux is too complex to be viable on the desktop. Move does not require installation nor does it make any changes to the host system; the entire operating system runs from a single compact disc.
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Ziff Davis - Longhorn's woes may open a door for Linux&#151;a very tiny door&#151;but Linux just isn't a good choice for desktops. Instead, desktop Linux proponents should wake up and switch to the Mac OS.
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It's JeOSy VMworld Canonical has busted out yet another version of Ubuntu â this time taking aim at the much hyped and loved virtualization market.â¦
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Not since SCO has there been a company so reviled by the open source community as Novell following its deal with Microsoft.  Already there are some clear signs of the negative effects of that anger: senior coders have left the company; Novell has posted a loss for the most recent quarter; and there are calls for a boycott of Novell products â to say nothing of imminent changes to the GNU GPL that might well nullify the entire Novell-Microsoft deal.  Some people are rubbing their hands in glee at the thought of Novell crashing and burning completely, but such a development could actually turn out to be one of the worst things to happen to free software.
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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&quot;When the elephants fight,&quot; they say in West Africa, &quot;it&#39;s the grass that gets trampled.&quot;. The Linux community is apparently beginning to identify with that proverb, as it watches Sun Microsystems and Red Hat