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Return of the netbook? / windows herd mentality 0 21 (7/15/2009 11:27:25 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Today I made a brief visit to my local branch of Maplin Electronics (Brislington, Bristol, UK) during my lunch break (I work 5 minutes walk from my local branch) and on picking up their latest offers leaflet wa... Nigel

LiveCD with working QEMU 9 9 (9/2/2006 11:58:29 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Does anyone here know of a Linux LiveCD that includes a fully working version of QEMU (or any other virtual machine) - I know several include a version of QEMU that can boot the CD but I'm looking for one that ... Nigel

MS getting desparate with the FUD 14 32 (1/6/2006 6:59:17 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy It appears the MS astroturfers are so desparate to FUD linux they've now posted lies on several news sites about Linux software having had 4x as many vulnerabilities as windows. http://www.theregister.co.uk/20... Nigel

Another MS Sponsored FUD posing as news 37 11 (11/16/2005 7:28:17 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy MS now claim Windows to be more reliable and easier to manage than Novel Linux - guess they're pissed at Novel going against SCO and are trying for a pathetic revenge attempt. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005... Nigel

Do any LiveCD's include BRLCAD? 1 11 (10/28/2005 8:53:02 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Is there anyone on here who knows of a Knoppix type CD that includes the BRLCAD package. My father uses 3D CAD packages (solidworks/solidedge) for work and his employer (only a small company) has some interest... Nigel

VMWare now available free 2 13 (10/21/2005 6:20:03 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy As there have been several Emulation threads recently readers might like to know that VMWare now have a free version available :- http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ This is designed to run Virtual machine... Nigel

Semi-OT: Cheap backup solution (at least for UK readers). 0 17 (10/16/2005 6:14:35 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Readers of this newsgroup may be interested to know that at the moment Ebay seems to be a great source for cheap backup solutions - at least the UK version of ebay (still worth a try outside UK though - just ca... Nigel

Even IE's designer prefers firefox 5 14 (9/16/2005 6:05:01 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy One of the key designers of IE's User interface who left just after release of version 5.0 has switched to Firefox - reason being he finds IE too broken to be useable. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/... Nigel

another 2 linux-only innovations 2 13 (6/13/2005 11:56:15 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Let's see XP do this then :- Linux (well X running on linux anyway) can turn your SVGA card into a DVB-T or analogue PAL testcard generator just by tweaking X config file and displaying a special bitmap file. ... Nigel

Average windows user 1 29 (12/11/2004 12:40:06 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Here's an example of the sort of idiot that we have to be able to train to use our O/S before we can be as popular as MS's junkware (audio clip of a real bozo on a radio quiz, very funny). http://www.processre... Nigel

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Vista is trusted and proven! 12 26 (2/18/2010 12:40:35 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://www.vistasoftware.org/ VistA is a trusted, proven, and economical electronic health record system. . . . VistA is an enterprise-wide, fully integrated, fully functional information s... ahlstromc1 (7599)

Will the open-source community accept Microsoft's leadership? 84 11 (2/20/2010 2:29:02 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5903 The idea alone is preposterous!!! M$ has *nothing* in common with open- source except for the fact that they are fishing in the same pool of potential customers. Hm... nobody16 (210)

3 things you did not know about Linux (three strikes and you're out) 70 15 (3/18/2010 10:56:10 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy 1. Linux is not for serious work. Google this thread in this group. 2. Linux is not secure. Google 'One Shot One Kill's' post on the recent Linux kernel patch for security issues, following another such pa... raylopez88 (1505)

Biased Windows centric BBC article about OSS 13 121 (6/16/2010 8:56:33 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy According to the usual "advocates" the BBC is biased against OSS. As if by magic they then post a very pro OSS article about Red Hat. Are the "advocates" ever right?!?!?! http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/t... Hadron

Three Year Old Laptop - tool old for Win7 132 183 (6/24/2010 7:43:39 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Here is yet another failure for Windows 7. Here's the Readers' Digest version of whats going on. The Win7 drivers aren't fully compatible with the Wireless 802.11. So it works fine without any encryption bu... Justin

Re: NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter 18 19 (7/13/2010 12:07:30 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy > Guy Webster 818-354-6278 > Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. > guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov > > Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726 > Headquarters, Washington > dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov > > Michael Mewhinney/Rache... none5182 (189)

Help Bing Give to Schools 26 75 (7/15/2010 1:56:50 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy Set Bing as your default search provider and we will donate $3 to help students. As we reported yesterday, Microsoft is continuing to grab market share in Internet search. It has done that through some c... nessuno

Dvorak praises Linux (indirectly)--what a fool 11 100 (8/20/2010 10:16:16 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy They say that Dvorak is a contrary indicator: just do the opposite of what he recommends and you'll be fine. In this article he recommends Adobe waste money developing a Linux version of their products. ... RayLopez99

HP Business Flyer. Not a single Mention of Linux. 65 11 (9/5/2010 12:59:53 PM) comp.os.linux.advocacy The HP Business Computer (small servers, higher end machines etc) arrived the other day. There must be 20 mentions of "HP Recommends Windows 7" in it. There isn't a single mention of Linux, anywhere. Go Linu... moshe_golfarb (709)

What comes with most distros? 66 140 (10/13/2010 12:37:09 AM) comp.os.linux.advocacy From what I understand, most distros have the Linux kernel along with GNU applications, developer tools, libraries, etc... and in many cases not much else. Some also have closed source drivers and other comm... Snit