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Lack of vendor support, lack of marketing, too much "bad techie attitude," too much infighting and not enough developer cooperation are "Five ways the Linux desktop shoots itself in the foot," contends Computerworld's Steven J....
ComputerWorld writer Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes a look at a couple of reasons why Linux isn't very popular on desktop PCs. You can read it at ComputerWorld . Here's one of them: 3) Too much bad techie attitude In 2009, any...
One could argue that this has been almost a banner year for Linux, what with Vista failing to attract the kind of fanfare that continues to follow XP. And the maturity of Linux distributions is undeniable, particularly Ubuntu,...
Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ] "That said, I can't give you any real reasons to switch from XP to 7, but I can safely assure XP users that come the day you buy a new PC you won't regret it the way so many...
"I just tested out Hulu Desktop for Linux on MEPIS 8.0, a great Debian-based Linux desktop. I was able to successfully install Hulu Desktop by first downloading the 64-bit Ubuntu version of Hulu and then running the...
Videotcy: "Neat news for Linux Internet TV watchers Hulu has just released a version of its Hulu Desktop for Linux. As a big Internet TV fan in general, and both a Hulu and Linux fan in specific, I really welcome this new...
When it comes to business computer systems, nothing is more mission-critical than the massive trading software systems that underlie stock markets. A failure of an hour here can mean billions of dollars of lost trades. The LSE...
NET/Microsoft detractors got an early Christmas present recently when the London Stock Exchange, under a relatively new CEO , decided to dump their .NET/SQL Server –based trading platform , TradElect, to replace it with the...
The Ubuntu project has released the first beta of Ubuntu Linux 9.10 (Karmic Koala), which has already been favorably previewed, especially for its fast boot time. Based on Linux 2.6.31, Karmic Koala offers GNOME 2.28 and Ext4...
Here's how HP (kind of, sort of) supports Linux. Maybe. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Computerworld HP has a love/hate relationship with Linux. The company supports several Linux distributions- --on its servers, but finding it...
