How I Spent My Christmas Vacation
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| So, anyway, I loaded up the Ubuntu LINUX distribution, and I am so impressed
| I can't express how impressed I am. It installs like a breeze, it's easy to
| use (OK, a little background in UNIX is required, but this can be fixed over
| time), it's fast, and it includes everything one might need - the Firefox
| browser, OpenOffice, and a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) client (see here
| for an example, but there are lots of free and other distributions
| available). VNC is particularly important here because, using VNC, one can
| access other VNC-equipped machines, of any form, and control them remotely -
| just like Microsoft Remote Desktop, but platform-independent. So, put Ubuntu
| on your PCs, put Microsoft Office on your servers (if you don't want to use
| OpenOffice, which is remarkably good), and there you are - everything you
| need, with most of the software being, yes, free. Don't dump old PCs -
| recycle them as thin clients. And, yes, all of this works just fine over
| wireless - you can even get VNC for handheld devices; I'm not sure if this is
| a viable remote-access strategy yet, but I'm intrigued and will be
| investigating this option further.
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http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23420
Lot of people quietly moves to Linux over Christmas. Only few of them happen to
write for big sites, which makes their migration more visible.
Yesterday:
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| This is the year I kiss Windows good-bye. Well, maybe not entirely, but the
| writing is on the wall for Microsoft's flagship operating system, and all
| other desktop bloatware: The future of PC software is open source.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13880_1-9838468-68.html
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