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Linux Users, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is! —
by John Murray —
It's good to see that Linux, and open source software in general, is continuing its steady progress. And while it might not be ready for every desktop, for an ever increasing number of us it already has everything we need. Some governments have been looking closely at Open Source, and ...
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ICANN! No, You Can't! —
by Malcolm Dean —
It's time for the community of Internet Engineers to take back control of the Internet's evolution! Contributing Editor Malcolm Dean says the Dept. of Commerce and Infofascist organizations like ICANN are innately incapable of delivering the future . . .
ICANN! No, You Can't!
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Linux Desktop Winning the World —
by Malcolm Dean —
DesktopLinux.com contributing editor Malcolm Dean reports on the state of Desktop Linux from the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. With the adoption of Linux occurring at a rapid pace internationally, Dean examines a few projects and theories propelling this trend . . .
Linux Desktop Winning the World...
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Interview with Penguin Airlines President Chris Stevens —
by DesktopLinux.com Staff (August 9, 2002) —
DesktopLinux.com interviews Chris Stevens, President of Penguin Airlines about his young venture's business model that includes using Linux in all aspects from the ground up -- from desktops to the reservations system! 'Tux' is more than just a name for this new air taxi service which brings convenient, economical, time-saving ...
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wIndependence Day Essay: From the Flight Deck . . . —
by Chris G. Stevens (August 8, 2002) —
Good morning ladies and gentlemen from the flight deck. This is Captain Tux and we're glad to have you along with us on this short hop over to College Station, Texas. Flying time will be 32 minutes at an altitude of 16,000 feet and 400 miles per hour. We don't ...
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'wIndependence Day' essay contest results —
by DesktopLinux.com staff (updated August 8, 2002) —
 DesktopLinux.com is pleased to announce the winners in our first annual wIndependence Day essay contest. This new annual celebration focuses on the burgeoning use of Linux on business, government, educational institution, and personal end-user computer desktops as an alternative to dependence on Microsoft's Windows operating system ...
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wIndependence Day Essay: Why I Want to Give Up Windows —
by Volodymyr Vakhitov (August 8, 2002) —
There are several answers, but they are all very simple: I am sick of piracy, which is blooming on this platform. I am afraid of daily viruses - I have much data to lose. I am tired of restarting my computer, which is done weekly as a preventive measure. I ...
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wIndependence Day Essay: The Libertari Plan —
by Greg Smith (August 8, 2002) —
Despite the progress Linux and Open source software have made over the past decade, the latest surveys of software usage show Microsoft's monopoly more entrenched than ever, holding a near 95% share of operating systems, browsers, and office suites.
I have been running Linux on my home computer for more ...
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wIndependence Day Essay: How I got rid of Windows —
by Dmitry Voloshin (August 8, 2002) —
Not everything that I write below has yet happened, but the process is still ongoing, and the day when Win becomes history dawns ever closer . . .
Meanwhile . . .
Imagine a normal office, which has about 15 to 20 computers. Surely, they must be tied into ...
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wIndependence Day Essay: For housewives . . . —
by 'Tiji' (August 8, 2002) —
As any other talkative woman, I begin with a prehistory . . .
The first operating system I have ever installed was, of course, Windows. I am a weak woman! When Windows began installing, I started to feel smart – at last I am able to do something with a ...
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Quicken and QuickBooks and Visio, oh my! (on Linux, that is) —
Rick Lehrbaum (August 7, 2002) —
DesktopLinux.com founder and executive editor Rick Lehrbaum previews a beta version of CodeWeavers CrossOver Office 1.2, which now supports Quicken and Visio (among other enhancements). Lehrbaum also interviews CodeWeavers CEO Jeremy White, to learn more about what else is coming, and what it takes for new apps to be added ...
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Xandros nears first release: set to announce at LinuxWorld —
by Malcolm Dean (August 2, 2002) —
DesktopLinux.com contributing editor Malcolm Dean interviews Xandros president Michael Bego and Dr. Frederick Berenstein, co-chairman of Linux Global Partners (the financial backer of Xandros), regarding the current state of Xandros as a company and on their plans to roll out the first release of Xandros Linux this Fall. Bego gives ...
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wIndependence Day Essay: 'wIndependence' —
by Tom Searing (August 1, 2002) —
Hello, my name is Tom and I am a Microsoft Windows addict.
This is a reality that I face each and every day. I started with a Kaypro running DOS back in 1986. Eventually I was hired by my current employer in 1989 as a System administrator maintaining a Wang ...
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wIndependence Day Essay: The Return of the Gurus —
by Peter Pyrkosz (August 1, 2002) —
by 'Duke Shellwalker'
A long, long time ago on the network far, far away . . .
For more than a thousand hardware generations Unix Gurus were the guardians of peace and justice on the network. Before the dark times. Before the Empire....
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wIndependence Day Essay: The Ballad of My wIndependence —
by Arjun Nath (August 1, 2002) —
Listen all ye gentlefolk, Oh come listen to me.
Here is the short story of how my freedom came to be.
Listen all ye from far away and listen ye from near,
And listen all ye folks out there who hold your freedom dear.
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wIndependence Day Essay: Transition to Linux —
by D. L. Tai Sines (August 1, 2002) —
When my boss announced a little over a year ago that each of us in our unit (I work in the IT section of a veterinary teaching hospital) was to begin familiarizing ourselves with Linux to facilitate an eventual migration to that OS, I thought he was crazy. I'd been ...
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wIndependence Day Essay: Linux Love —
by Grant Shearer (August 1, 2002) —
Like most, I first began experimenting with Linux in college. It was just something that I did in my spare time, nothing serious. Everyone experiments in college, right? Though I was trying new things I still didn't want my parents or any of my friends back home to know, because ...
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Terminal.Failure@Internet.Monopoly —
by Malcolm Dean (July 30, 2002) —
ICANN, the Infofascist organization which rules the Internet with more effective power than any government, was told yesterday to 'fess up and show its knickers to reform-minded Board member Karl Auerbach. Contributing Editor Malcolm Dean interviewed Auerbach at the Los Angeles Superior Court . . .
Terminal.Failure@Internet.Monopoly
Malcolm ...
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wIndependence Day Essay: A Road to Windependence —
by John McKeown (July 25, 2002) —
. . . 17 years as a Microsoft user, could I break the habit?
I was ready for an alternative. I had tried to use time-based automation tools but found Windows/DOS scripting weak, and the inaccessible binary format of files saved by so many Windows applications were an obstacle when ...
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wIndependence Day Essay: Linux is a beautiful creation . . . —
by Jon Larabee (July 25, 2002) —
Linux is a beautiful creation. An operating system that is free to use, free to implement ones dreams and not just a concept, but a way of life. What Linus once started and then gave to the world, was a gift that would keep on giving to millions of people ...
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wIndependence Day Essay: Just Say No! —
by David McNab (July 25, 2002) —
My story is sad, but must be told. If others learn from my sins, my suffering need not be in vain.
Eight years ago, I was a successful developer of embedded software on UNIX-variant systems. But circumstances saw me changing career to alternative health care, and getting out of computers ...
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