A short while ago, I installed Windows XP on one of my computers. *horror*. It’s not so bad. It does some things quite well. Even after bloating it up with about 50 open source apps, it still seems to chug away quite merrily. I gor rid of the antivirus software, as it slowed the system down. What is this ‘virus’ thing that everyone keeps talking about anyway? Today, a win to Linux and a win to Windows XP.
The 0.10.4 release of Google Gadgets for Linux is out, with optimized performance and memory consumption, as well as many bug fixes. To install or upgrade your copy of Google Gadgets for Linux, just download and install the binaries for your platform.
The g.Micro is available as an ISO image of the CD, you just need to download and burn it with your favorite cd-writing software and then boot from cd-rom. For USB is distributed as a ZIP archive. Simply unzip it to your USB device and run bootinst.bat (for Windows users) or bootinst.sh (for Linux users) to make it bootable.
E-Swecha is based on the Debian OS which is a variant of Linux, the most popular open source OS. Unlike proprietary software like Microsoft Windows, open source software allows the original source code to be modified and distributed.
LeanXcam is an intelligent color camera that combines a CMOS sensor, 500-MHz Blackfin ADSP-BF537 digital signal processor, tailored Linux-based operating system, and OSCAR image-processing framework. Memory includes 54-Mbyte internal SDRAM and 2 x 4 Mbyte flash; microSD cards up to 2 Gbytes are optional.
Strange article that one. Seems to be pushing the line that ‘free is worthless’, and somehow ‘paying for software will become cool again’, and intentionally trying to blur the distinction between that communist ‘free’ and corporate-friendly ‘open’ source stuff.
Not just strange, outright bizarre. I think getting value for money from software will be one of the easiest ways companies will be able to save money in the global recession we are in.
Vista 7 is plagued by serious bugs and new patches from Microsoft are said to be making things even worse; Microsoft is still unable to formulate a response to the new problems and Vista 7 sales continue to disappoint, so more vapourware and fake "leaks" are being used instead
A look at Facebook's relationship with Microsoft in 2010; Microsoft employees have an effect in competitors of Microsoft, so this issue is addressed too
Johnson and Johnson's multi-billion-dollar patent fine, patents' harms to real science and life, patent trolls thrive, and Mozilla's opposition to patent-encumbered codecs gradually pays off
Another fine example of an influential blogger who sells out to Microsoft yet does not apply to himself the same standards that he applies to colleagues
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Microsoft super-lobbyist Craig Mundie requests new laws that complicate the Internet and ignore the real problem (Microsoft negligence)
mike said,
December 26, 2008 at 5:08 pm
“Open source becomes paid software in 2009″
Strange article that one. Seems to be pushing the line that ‘free is worthless’, and somehow ‘paying for software will become cool again’, and intentionally trying to blur the distinction between that communist ‘free’ and corporate-friendly ‘open’ source stuff.
Not just strange, outright bizarre. I think getting value for money from software will be one of the easiest ways companies will be able to save money in the global recession we are in.
So much for an ‘open source thought-leader’.