Wednesday, December 2, 2009

ChromeOS and Google

Google is going to help push linux further, people will realize that Microsoft isn't the only game in town.

in reference to: Chromium OS Builds by Hexxeh (view on Google Sidewiki)

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Year of the linux, again

As was posted somewhere else, every year someone proclaims "this is the year linux....." blah blah insert expletive. The way I see it every year this century has been "the year of linux", especially since 2003 when Fedora came to light. The masses of linux distros has every year pushed the boundaries of open source computing and desktop use. It's not the leaps and bounds that windows users experience but incremental. Small steps is the way to go, easing your way into some new or innovative to do something. Ubuntu and Canonical push out two versions every year with better under the hood and visual mechanics, Fedora pushes it further with bleeding edge software twice a year. Mandriva keeps it simple and has in my opinion the best control center bar none, again with major updates twice a year. Instead of waiting three years and getting a ton of changes, risking breakage and driver issues; linux distros keep the tap open at a small trickle.


Finally got a job

Last year this time I finally started a job that required my degree, whew!
This job (I won't say where, not important) uses a mix of operating systems and other hardware. Thank goodness my supervisor is a fan of linux and likes to push for it when he can.

Monday, November 9, 2009

No new reviews

So that's it PCMag? Give up on linux?

in reference to: Linux - Reviews and Price Comparisons from PC Magazine (view on Google Sidewiki)

Best Free of 2009?

You're kidding right? Three linux distros and you're done? So you just put them here to say "see we covered linux". Even for Ubuntu you didn't even have anything from 2009 and the link is for a review of 8.04?

in reference to: The Best Free Software of 2009 - Operating Systems - Features by PC Magazine (view on Google Sidewiki)

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Sidewiki

I'm going to try Sidewiki on my home system as well

in reference to: Google Sidewiki (view on Google Sidewiki)