Hard cash, cold logic: Linux
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| By the first week of June 2006, Umashankar started moving Elcot's desktops to
| Suse Linux OS. The entire organization followed in phases, and slowly at
| first. The migration of over 200 desktops at Elcot's HQ took just over eight
| months.
|
| "During the migration although there were no issues, like all new things, it
| faced resistance. But once people started using it, they saw benefits and
| became fond of it. We won't go back, this is an irreversible process," says
| P.R.Krishnamoorthy, senior business development manager at Elcot.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1261997372;fp;4;fpid;3
Is Open Source the Answer to Software Piracy?
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| Believe it or not, most of the previously mentioned challenges are in fact
| hype driven. Here is a fact check:
|
| • The average person can migrate to Open Office easily, it just means taking
| a little time with the user interface and expecting some migration-based
| format issues with existing documents.
|
| • If a user is not familiar with Photoshop, using GIMP is not going to be all
| that more difficult to learn. It simply takes time to get used to finding
| the tools and finding a workflow that works best for that user.
|
| • Most popular open source applications have books available to make the
| switch a lot more painless from the user's standpoint.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3721106
Related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_g72GcaIdc
GNU/Linux Vs Windows: Myths and Realities
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| Linux Games
|
| One of the major concerns that home users have is about games on GNU/Linux
| which they could play on windows.
|
| GNU/Linux distributions like SuperGamer and the linuX-gamers Live DVD have
| solved this issue by providing some of the latest 3D, Arcade and other type
| games. Other major Linux distributions e.g. Sabayon Linux offer a huge
| collection of games for home users.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=313
Top 5 Linux Myths
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| The sheer ignorance regarding casual Linux users astounds me to no end. While
| I'm not interested in pointing fingers, there is a lot of misinformation
| about the Linux community, and we will help to dispel some of these myths,
| once and for all.
|
| 1. Linux Users Are Cheap. Ah, this is one of my favorites. It seems that
| Linux users have long since been seen as cheap, despite the fact that so many
| of them in the States earn up to six figures. First, define cheap? Are we
| cheap because we choose not to buy brand new everything with every release of
| our selected OS?
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http://www.osweekly.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2618&Itemid=449
Are there inconvenient truths about Linux?
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| A recent blog post entitled Confessions of a Linux Fan has provoked some
| discussion in the Linux community. In it, the author lists 10 things (10
| seems to be the preferred number of these kinds of posts) that new Linux
| users should be aware of. Though the author claims to be a Linux enthusiast,
| the 10 observations are actually just re-wordings of many of the classic
| arguments against using Linux.
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http://www.linux.org/news/opinion/inconvenient.html
Linux Myth Busting
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| Myth nr1. LINUX IS HARD TO INSTALL
|
| Myth nr2, LINUX HAS NO GOOD APPLICATIONS
|
| Myth nr3, I CAN'T PLAY GAMES UNDER LINUX
|
| Myth nr4, HARDWARE SUPPORT IS AWFULL UNDER LINUX
|
| Myth nr5, SECURITY UNDER LINUX IS STUPID I NEED TO BE ADMINISTRATOR
|
| Myth nr6, UPDATING LINUX IS HARD TO DO
|
| Myth nr7, WHY MUST I COMPILE A KERNEL FOR NEW HARDWARE????!!!!
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http://www.cyberwalker.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/2514/
Top 5 Linux and Windows myths
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| ...Studies have shown that Linux is in fact MORE user friendly than
| windows, just people aren't used to it!
|
| ...Linux is getting more user friendly and supportive of hardware all the
| time, no-one can deny that. And although Microsoft have the influence
| to push them through a few mistakes, if a long chain continues it could
| well
| cause permenant damage - it would just take far longer because of their
| influence.
|
| ...And due to the ever increasing number of computers in poorerc
| ountries, Linux is gaining momentum.
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http://tt-blogs.com/comment.php?id=52
Linux Truths, Half-Truths, and Myths
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| When people find out I run Linux on my computer instead of Windows
| or even Mac OS X they sometimes have funny ideas about what it must
| be like. Some of it is historical; Linux used to be quite difficult
| to administer in its younger days. Some of it is misinformation,
| or no information at all. I hope to dispell some of the
| misconceptions.
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/03/05/161203.php
Web Content 2007: 7 Open Source Myths: Busted!
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| Open source licenses allow for free redistribution of the software
| including the source code and depending on the specific license,
| can allow the user to derive works from that software. Companies
| may choose to open source their software to slash distribution costs,
| and instead profit from support licenses and/or selling a
| “professional” or “enterprise” version of the software.
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http://www.cmswire.com/cms/open-source-cms/web-content-2007-7-open-source-myths-busted-001391.php#8454534891915636916
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