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darthcamaro writes “For nearly three years, Oracle has had its own version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, claiming the two versions are essentially the same thing. But are they really? As it turns out, there are a few things on which Oracle and Red Hat do not see eye-to-eye, including file systems and virtualization. The article quotes Wim Coekaerts, Oracle’s director of Linux engineering, saying, ‘A lot of people think Oracle is doing Enterprise Linux as just basically a rip off of Red Hat but that’s not what this is about. …

Posted on March 20th, 2009 under Avoid, Comment, Microsoft, Response, What, Yahoo, advice, all about linux, articles, avi, bid, blog, business, comments, community, content, died, free, free software, google, help, honest, hosting, images, install, interest, internet, learn, links, linux, market, news, purchase, rank, rated, report, sale, saving, savings, server, service, software, system, tea, tell, tool, war, web. Tags: advice, articles, Avoid, content, died, honest, market, Microsoft, rank, report, sale, server, tea, tool, war. Comments: None

An anonymous reader writes “Everyone has seen Apple’s clever ‘I’m a Mac’ ads, and Microsoft’s attempted responses, first with Jerry Seinfeld, and next with ‘I’m a PC.’ The Linux Foundation tries to fire back with its community-generated ‘We’re Linux’ video contest: all of the eligible videos have now been submitted and are ready to be voted on. Thankfully, the quality of Linux is much higher than the quality of some of these entries: entries range from the hilarious but inappropriate, to the well-made but creepy, to the ‘I’m sure it sounded good in your head.’ Thankfully, there are one or two that could actually be real commercials.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Posted on March 18th, 2009 under 3gp, Comment, Microsoft, Response, What, Yahoo, all about linux, articles, avi, blog, business, comments, community, content, died, free, google, help, honest, images, install, interest, ira, learn, links, linux, market, network, news, purchase, rated, server, service, shoot, software, song, stress, system, tea, tell, tool, video, war, web, writer. Tags: avi, content, honest, ira, learn, purchase, stress, tea, tool, video, writer. Comments: None

Kenneth Reitz writes “Wouldn’t it be lovely to have a nice, clean installation of Microsoft’s Office 2007 Suite to run on your Ubuntu Linux Distribution? For some people, this is the only thing that truly holds them back from an all-Linux environment … But not anymore! We have compiled a nice, concise set of instructions to help guide you along.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Posted on March 17th, 2009 under Comment, Download, Microsoft, Review, What, Yahoo, all about linux, articles, avi, bid, blog, business, comments, community, content, cure, died, ebay, free, free software, google, handle, help, honest, how to, images, install, interest, ira, learn, life, links, linux, news, purchase, rated, report, sale, saving, server, service, software, system, tea, tell, tool, war, web, writer, writing. Tags: avi, died, Download, handle, honest, images, learn, purchase, server, tea, war. Comments: None

gubm writes “A February survey of IT managers by IDC indicated that hard times are accelerating the adoption of Linux. The open source operating system will emerge from the recession in a stronger data center position than before, concluded an IDC white paper.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Posted on March 16th, 2009 under Comment, Download, Microsoft, Response, What, Yahoo, all about linux, articles, avi, bid, business, career, comments, consulting, content, cure, died, education, free, google, handle, help, images, install, interest, killed, learn, life, links, linux, market, network, news, purchase, rated, sale, saving, server, service, shoot, software, system, tea, tell, tool, war, web, writing. Tags: career, images, killed, learn, links, market, news, purchase, Response. Comments: None