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Jun 04, 2005

Meet Apple's Nessie PC: On Rumors of Apple's Switch to Intel

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 4:25 PM

Having read the CNet News.com story about Apple's supposed impending switch to x86, let me propose an excellent code name for this forthcoming system: “Nessie.” Like Nessie's namesake Loch Ness Monster, the rumor of Mac OS on x86 rings of the stuff of tabloids, not something that people take seriously. Of course, that leaves us to ask what we are to make of it when one of the most respectable online computer news sources, News.com, reports as virtual fact that Apple will be switching to Intel, and the story apparently seems credible enough to get Reuters to pick it up.

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Apr 27, 2005

Desktop FreeBSD: New Life for Old Laptops

By Ed Hurst | Posted at 9:51 PM
Ever looking for new ways to bring older hardware to life, OfB associate editor Ed Hurst now aims his focus at keeping aging laptops alive and kicking with FreeBSD 5.4. Ed not only reports on how to keep that old system alive, but also finds that the latest technology can work fairly well on older generation systems.
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Apr 25, 2005

Of Course Macs Are More Expensive... Aren't They?

By Staff Staff | Posted at 3:01 PM

In the case of the Macintosh pricing versus PC pricing, the errors have led to the general impression that comparable PC's are cheaper than comparable Macs. Now, I won't debate whether or not that's always been the case, but I will state categorically that it ain't true today and hasn't been for the last 2-3 years.

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Apr 13, 2005

PR: Adobe Reader 7 Now Included in Linspire

By Staff Staff | Posted at 4:50 PM

“Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux provides desktop Linux users another important tool for daily use on par with Windows and Mac users,” said Michael Robertson, CEO of Linspire, Inc. “Adobe pioneered document sharing and secure collaboration across operating systems. More and more, major software vendors are seeing the value in creating cross-platform versions of their software for Linux. Adobe's advanced support shows its understanding of the viability of the desktop Linux market.”

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PR: First Mandriva Release Announced

By Staff Staff | Posted at 4:48 PM

Moreno Valley, Ca; Paris, France - April 13th 2005 - Mandriva (pronounced “Man-dree-vah”!), the company formerly known as Mandrakesoft, today released Limited Edition 2005, a special new version of its operating system that blends the most up to date popular open source applications, including Firefox 1.0.2, with specific customisations resulting in advanced multimedia, internet and development capabilities. These features include out-of-the-box Web content RSS reading and software sound mixing (so multiple applications can play sound at once). Limited Edition 2005 is the only Linux system to allow the trouble-free coexistence of 32-bit and 64-bit applications. It also offers enhanced hardware support for removable devices, including the ability to boot from USB keys.

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Apr 12, 2005

The BitKeeper Example: A Bad Development Model

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 8:01 PM

To say one could see a train wreck coming from hundreds of miles away when the Linux kernel development process switched to using BitKeeper to manage development is to make an understatement of the largest kind. The idea that the best known Free Software kernel would be developed with the aid of a non-Free development tool just seemed peculiar at best and dangerous at worst. OfB's Timothy R. Butler asserts that the moral of this story is one that every business ought to pay attention to.

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Mar 31, 2005

Stallman on the State of GNU/Linux

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 12:27 AM
The Free (as in freedom) Software movement has changed a lot in the past two decades. During that time, there has been one constant that has kept the organization created to promote Free Software on the straight and narrow: Richard M. Stallman. Known around the community as simply "RMS," Stallman is the founder of the movement and continues to argue the advantages of totally non-proprietary computing. RMS kindly agreed to be interviewed again by OFB's Timothy R. Butler on what he is up to, where the Foundation's popular GPL license is heading and his perspective concerning various changes in the GNU/Linux community since his last interview here.
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Feb 11, 2005

Desktop FreeBSD Part 8: Updating the Core System

By Ed Hurst | Posted at 12:33 PM
Now that we have everything installed and setup the way we like it, it's important to keep an eye on updating the system. The emphasis is not so much slavishly chasing the cutting edge of BSD technology. Instead, our focus will be on security updates and optimization.
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Feb 03, 2005

Edging Toward the Ninety/Ten

By Timothy R. Butler | Posted at 10:30 PM

It is a cliché worth recalling when designing software. Ninety percent of users, it is said, use ten percent of the features in a software package. For that vast majority of “average users,” the other ninety percent of the features only add needless complexity that make the key ten harder to learn. These extra features simply serve to increase the TCO of software deployments and headaches at the helpdesk, not productivity of the business.

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Calling for a Console Distro

By Ed Hurst | Posted at 12:13 AM
How often do you hear it: "There are too many Linux distros!" What is the count now? Almost 400 and growing daily. Aside from the Linux kernel, what do they all seem to have in common? The only ones missing a GUI are the security/server distros. What about the console as the desktop?
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