We're only Human after all: a review of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
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| Final thoughts
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| Ubuntu 7.10 provides an unparalleled desktop Linux experience and sets new
| standards for power and ease of use. This release lives up to Ubuntu's
| reputation and delivers cutting-edge new features and solid enhancements.
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http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon-review.ars
Popularizing Linux
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| How to get linux adopted by the mainstream consumers?
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| It is the fact that a product is a better tool which makes it a popular item
| for people to purchase.
|
| If Linux people want Linux to be the operating system of choice, they need to
| realize why Vista is failing... and that's because it is not any better of a
| tool, than microsoft xp was.
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http://transparent.newsvine.com/_news/2007/11/05/1074854-popularizing-linux
Linux is ready. People might not (and FUD doesn't help).
Related:
Linux gains despite and because of Microsoft
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| Despite the heightened competition over the last two quarters from
| Microsoft-Novell and a move by Oracle to undercut Red Hat on the cost of Red
| Hat Linux support service, Red Hat has reported double-digit growth in
| revenue and an increase in profit.
|
| “The success of Red Hat has been able to validate the future potential for
| open source software,” Szulik says.
|
| Emerging countries are also lucrative markets for Linux, says IDC’s Gillen,
| because there isn’t as much of the legacy Windows technology to have to
| displace.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/072507-linux-microsoft-gains.html?page=3
Businesses having second thoughts about Vista
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| Fewer businesses are now planning to move to Windows Vista than seven months
| ago, according to a survey by patch management vendor PatchLink Corp., while
| more said they will either stick with the Windows they have, or turn to Linux
| or Mac OS X.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9028478
Software Assurance Storm Warning
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| In a report to be published today, Forrester Research sees a series of
| customer hurricanes coming Microsoft's way. If they strike, they could wash
| away many Software Assurance contracts. Software Assurance is the discounted
| upgrade option available with Open, Open Value and Select volume licensing
| contracts.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/software_assurance_storm_warning.html
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