PC-BSD Day 16: Time for advocacy
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| The good news is that the Dutch government send a new policy paper to
| parliament about the use of open source software and open standards. The gist
| of it is that government institutions will be obliged to start using open
| standards as early as 2008 and migrate to open source software as much as
| possible and feasible. This means that I can request, no demand government
| documents to be made available to me in Open Document Format or -when it is
| deemed impossible- to get a very, very good explanation about the why.
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| It even requires the PC-BSD team to sit down with GUI specialists, artists
| and graphical designers to create that new experience. But once this is done
| PC-BSD should be able to make a strong contribution to support the push to
| promote open source software in the wake of the open standards adoption.
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http://opensourcelearning.info/blog/?p=491
Ladies and Gentlemen: PC-BSD
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| Continuing with my capstone class series, I have been testing some alternates
| to the distros that were chosen for me. These alternates are basically
| different distros of the same operating systems. For instance, I mentioned
| last night that I had found an Ubuntu based Solaris distro called Nexenta. I
| played with it a bit last night, but I decided not to use it because it is
| still in its Alpha stages.
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http://www.bauer-power.net/2007/09/ladies-and-gentelman-pc-bsd.html
Related:
Comparing GNU/Linux and FreeBSD
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| FreeBSD and GNU/Linux are two great options: choosing one or the
| other depends on many factors. Usually FreeBSD is used as a web
| server: companies like Yahoo! or Sony Japan trust FreeBSD to run
| their internet portals; on the desktop GNU/Linux wins this battle,
| but GNU/Linux is used on many web servers as well. Users will find
| if they are familiar with traditional UNIX systems they can use
| either without many problems. FreeBSD and Linux: a gift of
| quality, robustness, security and stability from the free software
| community to the world of operating systems.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/comparing_linux_and_freebsd
Kubuntu v.s. PC-BSD
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| I played a bit with Kubuntu this morning in preparation for the
| article "PC-BSD for Ubuntu Users". It made sense to me to compare the two
| operating systems if they were both running the same window manager (KDE) so
| I wouldn't be distracted by Gnome v.s. KDE issues. That was my first
| mistake....
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http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/kubuntu-vs-pcbsd-18431
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