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Wii Outsells Microsoft's BoomBox360 20:1, Boom Boxes ...
He's already got Red Hat Linux on the two servers running Asterisk, and several traditional open source tools for network monitoring and administration, including MRTG and ...... Microsoft's own Vista updates add to the number of third-partyp | atches on which businesses will have to conduct compatibility testing.

Regarding NTLDR error
There are numerous ways to put Linux et al on to a PC in dual mode environment. These include: - Dual Boot - Virtual Machine Client OS - Linux as Primary, .... We have 3 Ghz Dual-Core processors and 64 bit machines can easily support 8 gig of RAM. Linux will have no problem with good performance. If Vista is such a

More Vista speed-up tricks: remove Microsoft software
I wish XP/Vista would do that, and I wish XP would REMEMBER NOT TO ENABLE SYSTEM RESTORE ON THEM. At least Vista doesn't start puking SR data on every new HD it At the same GHz, dual-core gets costly. For small extra cost, you can go dual-core but lose GHz. See the problem? True but I'd actually still go the

Linux PCs: Customer service or lip service?
The non-open source Asterisk Business Edition, announced in June, is also built as an appliance with rPath Linux already built in. ..... Microsoft's own Vista updates add to the number of third-partyp atches on which businesses will have to conduct compatibility testing. The burden is yet another reason to see slow

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 17-06-07
To add insult to injury, I noticed it had become sluggish, even on a G5. [...] My first mission was to eliminate Windows XP as quickly as possible. .... Added openSUSE - dual boot, so I can use both. `---- http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/14993 Vista Upgrade: Stuck in the Middle of Nowhere ,----[ Quote

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 10-06-07
Well, it does add up to over 1000 applications you can run on Windows Vista with few, if any, issues. But, given that there are tens of thousands of applications .... This would prevent companies from discriminating against Free software (even though it's already possible to play Blu-ray and HD DVD on GNU/Linux).

More Vista speed-up tricks: remove Microsoft software
The update wasn't just for this one vulnerability though, in Vista, it addressed two others, and in all covered seven vulnerabilities in Vista, XP and 2000. ...... http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/564 Linux faces no adoption barriers any time soon (and it can play these CDs already, as indicated below).

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 28-11-06
What may end up being most interesting is if Dell starts to offer Windows XP as an "Add-on" option to Linux machines - for an additional price. .... They were sold with Windows, but it was a trivial effort to install Linux and have either dual-boot or VM configurations that could run either Windows or Linux or

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 16-05-07
Icon Laboratories licenses Envoy from Wind River and offers ported versions for Linux, Solaris, NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BSDi and Windows NT/2000/XP. ..... Under the Services Tab, you can press add service. The files should be included on your CD. I don't think its possible to get the source code for the

Sooner than you think - Re: What If Microsoft Vanished Overnight?
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/01/17/gameplay-only-gets-worse-with-vista_uk/index.html Related: Vista gaming will be 10 to 15 per cent slower than XP ,----[ Quote ..... I can already envision the angry e-mail. It'll come from | the folks who write each month, certain that if they use | enough capital letters and

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 24-02-07
Vista will still overwrite the MBR and make no attempt to add a linux distro to the boot menu. Even after all this time. No excuse. If it can't do that (and even XP is a pain to have on a linux network) than it's no use to me. MS Office will import and export to many other formats, Only where it's suits MS,

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceeding 14-10-06
Optional Dual-Boot Install with Windows XP. `---- http://www.linuxcertified. com/linux-laptop-lctp60.html Same with Dell, which even preinstalls Linux on desktops and .... she gave up and purchased a new XP Pro license for her client--with her own money. "I can't tell you how many times I got hung up on," she says.

Schwartz Wants to Make Peace with Torvalds
Set up several XP/Mandriva dual-boot boxes for one of my customers last Saturday, and just told the 15-year-old daughter of the house over the phone that ..... of those features are already available as third-party add-ons, applets and applications - and most of the rest consists of minor changes or improvements.

freebsd-current Digest, Vol 214, Issue 12
It got to be a bit of a circus. Even if you had the source code, it was often necessary to add in a bunch of #DEFINE and #IFDEF flags to hand the different variants. Many practitioners had dual- boot systems, and some even carried 2 computers to engagements, one for Linux and one for Windows.

Virtual desktops in Windows
Linux Launch Time Improved * [OSS] Cheaper Can Mean Better Quality in Software * [Linux] Red Hat Going Strong Despite Oracle and Microvell * [OSS] A So-called "Open Source Blackberry" is Already Here * [Linux] New Version of rPath, NexentaOS (GNU/Solaris) Alpha, Crossover * [Linux] New Raves for Embedded Linux

Linux - was [928unlimited] Re: AWESOM GTS ...
PpE28jY...@schestowitz.com> From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@schestowitz.com> Subject: [News] [Linux] Vista Out the Windows, GNU/Linux on the Desktop Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:06:53 +0100 Assembling the Linux PC ,----[ Quote ] The Vista Out My Windows You may recall that I had a dual-boot setup with WinXP SP2 on

HIGHWAY ROBBERY BY MICROSOFT
But whereas the former configuration was as much as 50% slower than its equivalent native performance delta – as measured between Windows XP and Vista on ...... capable and responsive even on such a low spec, and secondly, unlike | something obscure like EPOC, with Linux you can add extra applications | readily,

Topo map software lost GPS -- follow-up
How can software slow down you're computer when it's simply sitting there? But OK, they've got a valid point too: "Limit how many programs load at startup" I just replicated this situation on my own Linux box -- with 1GB RAM and an Intel dual-core 3.4Ghz CPU. On this type of machine, Vista takes between 3 and 4

Vista may be in big trouble.
So essentially, aside from possibly being prettier (an issue of taste, not objective betterness) Vista doesn't really seem to add anything I don't already have with Linux, but it does add a few things I neither need nor want - the pointless security tools, notably. In short, as far as I can see, I've already got

All sorted out at last!!!!
It's a lot easier to recover from something today on XP/Vista than it was when you used Win95/98. Vista takes it all a baby step further and *by default* That computer will most likely get Linux within the year, either totally or for dual-boot (so many Windows games...). I've no idea if I'll ever get another MS