Daily Archives: April 30, 2012

Again, a big article was written to support a false thesis: “why hasn’t Linux on the desktop taken off?” In it Maria Korolov trots out a long list of “problems” with GNU/linux for large businesses. Here’s an example: “a typical … Continue reading →

M$ sued B&N over use of Linux on e-book readers and B&N kicked butt. Rather than lose, M$ decided to pay B&N to leave them alone, while calling the payment, “an investment”. Unfortunately, B&N gave up some control over their … Continue reading →

Darned if one of the in-laws hasn’t figured out how to lose weight… So, now “the little woman” is on my case to eat right. In the North I did eat right because I had only lean meat, fruits, vegetables … Continue reading →

When I learned of this, I scanned the release for packages: “apt-cache search xbmc … xbmc – XBMC Media Center (arch-independent data package) xbmc-bin – XBMC Media Center (binary data package) xbmc-data – XBMC Media Center (transitional package) xbmc-eventclients-common – … Continue reading →

The government of Venezuela which supplies computers, was caught agreeing to buy 205K licences for “7” despite its own policies to prefer FLOSS. The blast in a blog by COLIBRIS is quite thorough and debunks all the usual myths trotted … Continue reading →

Phase 1 of the trial of Oracle v Google ends this week with summations on copyright today. The judge is under pressure to rule on dismissal as a matter of law of some/all of Oracle’s claims of copyright violation because … Continue reading →

OEMs have figured out that “8” will not drive a wave of replacements of PCs because of the cost of touch-screens, CPUs and the licence of that other OS. Consumers are going to prefer small cheap computers with */Linux. This … Continue reading →