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[News] NetworkWorld Guy Moves to GNU/Linux, Very Impressed

  • Subject: [News] NetworkWorld Guy Moves to GNU/Linux, Very Impressed
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:25:09 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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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