Recently I’ve noticed an increases in the number of people I know who are migrating from Windows to GNU/Linux. Either my tireless advocacy is grinding them down, word is starting to spread. Perhaps they’ve actually seen Vista in action and decided to jump ship now. Either way there are some things they are going to miss when they make the leap.
Read more »Things you miss with GNU/Linux
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Argentina considering going 100% open source
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Argentina's congress is actively considering a bill that would require all government offices to use open-source software. It's partly a cost-saving move, and partly a way to bring the Argentine government into compliance with its software licensing
Read more »9000 PCs in Swiss schools migrating to GNU/Linux in September [German]
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The schools of the Canton of Geneva are going to switch 9000 computers from Windows to GNU/Linux in September according to this article which is in German. Here is the google translation: http://google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pro-linux.de%2Fnews%2F200...
Read more »Free software becoming entrenched in Brazil
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"As time goes on, free software is becoming institutionalized within Latin American businesses, public sector systems, non-profits and NGO’s."
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GNU/Linux for professionals
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Story about the benefits of migration for professional users from other operating systems to Freespire Linux. Freespire is easy yet powerful Ubuntu-based linux distribution suitable for novice users.
Read more »MAMPU migrates to OpenOffice.org and ODF to increase freedom of choice and interoperability
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The Malaysian Administrative Modernization and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) has announced that the agency will be migrating to OpenOffice.org office suite as well as adopt the OpenDocument Format (ODF). In addition, Microsoft Office is to be phased out by end of 2008.
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From Windows to Linux - and back again
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Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, took a step that made it stand out from other educational institutions.
Read more »Survey: Half 'Have No Plans' To Deploy Vista
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Migration to the Windows Vista operating system apparently isn't generating much enthusiasm among IT personnel in the enterprise. A survey conducted in November of last year by market research firm King Research supports that notion. The study found that "90 percent of participants have concerns about the migration to Windows Vista."
Read more »Bye Bye Windows
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Well I finally made the decision at home to switch from Windows XP on my main machine. As stated on a previous post I had reinstalled my PC with XP in August last year following a trojan.
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State of Affairs: The Linux Girlfriend Project - Two Months In The Trenches
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About 2 months ago, I convinced my girlfriend to try out Linux for a month after a really nasty bit of spyware infected her computer. This isn’t a bash on Microsoft, but it happened twice in about a month.
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Open source infiltrates government IT worldwide
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Homeland Security requirements in the USA, along with compatibility and budget demands everywhere, are putting Linux and open source into more and more public sector IT shops.
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Moving From Mac to Ubuntu
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I’ve been doing some investigation on what it would take to move my main work environment back to Linux (Ubuntu specifically).
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Dual-boot Windows and Linux, step 1: Get Ubuntu
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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. (I'll add that the future of PC applications is on the Web, which I'll cover once we've got Ubuntu in place.)
Read more »HOWTO: Convert A Friend To Linux
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Warning: You should proceed with caution using this Howto, if you do not know what you are doing you could damage your relationship with Friend 2.0 or totally break it. Also, using this Howto extensively with multiple Friend 2.0’s may damage Life 4.5, and end up as a sorrow lonely geek.
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The migration of a fussy Windows user to Linux
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I’m a very fussy user when it comes to my operating systems and I have managed to get by with Windows XP for a long time, but its days are numbered.
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