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OLPC finalises decision to deliver XO with Windows XP

http://www.starnewsonline.com

After a years-long dispute, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child said Thursday that they had reached an agreement to offer Windows on the organization’s computers.

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You Can Hack An OS But You Can't Hack People - part 6: The Black Hand

http://penguinpetes.com

Why is this part titled "The Black Hand"? Well, because I started this series using a nations metaphor. Citizens of Windows who expatriate and immigrate to Linux will be "foreigners" in Linux.

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winetricks 20080511 released

http://wine-review.blogspot.com

Changes since last week's annoucement: * dotnet11 now works again. Removed GAC kludge, added font kludges. * new verb fontfix to install working versions of arphic fonts (bad versions crash dotnet 1.1) * fixed dotnet20, too. And wsh56 no longer requires you to run vcrun6 first (it does it for you).

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You Can Hack An OS But You Can't Hack People - part 2: The Computing World

http://penguinpetes.com

Penguin Pete gets into the fairytales... welocome to the computing republics of Windows, Apple, and Unix; all ruled in remarkably different ways.

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OLPC Decision Not Final, RMS Asks: Can We Rescue OLPC from Windows?

http://www.groklaw.net

Richard Stallman just switched to an OLPC XO, for the free bios, and at that same moment in time, Nicholas Negroponte made some odd statements about Windows and the OLPC.

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Things you miss with GNU/Linux

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

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.

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The Biggest Windows XP Myth of All

http://www.thevarguy.com

Do you love going to the dentist to get a filling — if it means you don’t have to get root canal? In this case, XP is the filling you learn to live with because you don’t want all the deeper pain associated with Vista migrations. But that doesn’t mean you love XP.

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Can we rescue OLPC from Windows? - by Richard Stallman

http://www.fsf.org

"I read Negroponte's statement presenting the OLPC XO as a platform for Windows in the most ironic circumstances possible: during a week of preparing, under a deadline, to migrate personally to an XO. I made this decision for one specific reason: freedom..."

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Study: 70 percent say Red Hat more secure than Windows

http://arstechnica.com

The Standish group recently completed an extensive study that examines factors influencing open-source adoption. Based on five years of research and analysis, the report provides intriguing insights into open-source adoption levels and the way that open source is reshaping the software industry.

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Broken Windows Can't Be Fixed

http://www.microsoft-watch.com

It's the problem of legacy and Microsoft's ridiculous integration strategy. Windows is a fat client for a thin world. There's no future place for the desktop client. Computing is shifting from the desktop to the device and server. Windows, particularly Vista, has too much middle-age girth to dance with the lithely crowd.

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Best Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts

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Best Greasemonkey and Stylish scripts (both are Firefox extensions). How to modify the look of websites like gmail, google, google reader, last.fm, lyrics and other stuff to make youtube better and some other cool greasemonkey and stylish scripts.

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School districts serve up lessons in Linux

http://www.computerworld.com.au

Windows may boast the lion's share of the desktop education market, but the economic and technical benefits of open source software has seen many schools and education institutions implement various flavours of Linux across their desktops and server back-ends.

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Likewise opens Windows networks to Linux, Macs

http://www.linuxworld.com

Much has been said about the evils of vendor lock-in. The reality is that there are definite advantages to being a "Windows shop," particularly in terms of manageability and unified IT support.

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Created by extra 14 years 9 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 9 weeks ago
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Has Microsoft Disavowed Vista?

http://www.eweek.com

Technically, Vista is pure misery. It eats system resources like an elephant does peanuts, Windows applications break and its so-called improved security is a joke. I know it. You know it. Even Microsoft's most devoted yes-men know it--although they won't admit it--and perhaps Microsoft knows it as well.

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Created by dako3256 14 years 10 weeks ago – Made popular 14 years 10 weeks ago
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What if... Windows went open source?

http://www.itwire.com

When Microsoft talks about open source, people in the FOSS community tend to generally take it with a pinch - or more likely a kilo - of salt. Revealing the crown jewels of its empire - the Windows source code - has never ever been canvassed.

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