Software Business Models

For a long time, I have said that the software business model of boxed merchandise is faulty based on the nature of software. Many companies without a monopoly in its market have struggled or disappeared because they continued to use this model. The monopolist has enough market control to maintain sustainable profits as […]

Linux Distro goes hippy

For some time Apple has been considered the hippy of the computing market because it rejected the conventional computing paradigm (read unix, IBM, M$ worlds), and created its own counter culture, much like the original hippies of the sixties. One Linux distributor, Linspire (formerly Lindows) is jumping on the counter culture that surrounds […]

LJ Tech Tip

I receive the weekly Linux Journal News Letter. This week’s had a good tip about better use of hard drive space by using swap for /tmp:
When you’re planning the partitioning scheme for your next Linux system, keep in mind that you may want to put /tmp on tmpfs instead of directly on disk and […]

Finally pinched enough to go almost free

The Ministry of Education in Ontario has started to see the light that the top of the financial hole they are in, and have opted to save loads of ca$h by choosing StarOffice from Sun. Read more here.
Star Office is the commercially packaged version of OpenOffice.org, that is open sourced and free for […]

FLOSS in Macedonia

With only 80,000 of a country with a population of 2 million online, M$ has thrown wacks of cash to proliferate its monopoly in countries that are starting to grow their connectivity, Macedonia has a strong FLOSS community that is doing its part to fight the giant from Redmond. Read more here.

Forbes migrates to Linux

A division of Forbes that runs a US lottery will be migrating from Microsoft Windows 2003 to Red Hat Linux Enterprise Advanced Server. Of note, the move comes due to performance reasons and not cost. Win2K3 has a going reputation of stability and communication problems, and this is yet another example. It […]

XD2 screenshots

See some of my XD2 screenshots here.

XD2 and 2.4.21-ac1 …

I haven’t posted anything for a while, so here is a wrap up of my OS adventures of late…
XD2 compelled me to move back to Red Hat and away from Gentoo as my daily Linux distrobution. It is very user friendly and it makes some things easier that I disliked about Gentoo. I […]

Worldwatch — FLOSS news

Worldwatch is a site reporting the social, economic and political effects that Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), with emphasis on Linux, from around the world.
For those in the indstrualised nations, we do not see the full impact of the power that FLOSS has for people at every level to do more for less, due to […]

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