Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

THE STORY of the city of Munich’s transition to Linux is longer than a festival of Fassbinder films but, just like a movie by the arthouse-meister, after an interminable prologue we’re finally getting to the action.
According to IDG’s Jon Blau, the first 100 of 14,000 PCs have lost Windows and gained Debian Linux and OpenOffice […]

Two Harvard economists have built a model to elucidate the battle between Windows and Linux. There’s an interesting interview with the authors in which they discuss their findings.
Their conclusion?
Our main result is that in the absence of cost asymmetries and as long as Windows has a first-mover advantage (a larger installed base at time […]

Wifi Hardware Compatibility

Peter Sheltrum writes:
I am using what I think is a very standard system with three machines networked over WiFi using all Netgear equipment.
The desktops are fitted with USB WiFi cards.
I have been unable to find a version of Linux that will load and go on one of these desktops. All load and go as […]