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An AbiWord to the Wise [LinuxPlanet] —
Jul. 03, 2001 —
Brian Proffitt reviews the AbiWord 0.7.14 release for Linux in this article at LinuxPlanet. Proffitt writes . . . "AbiWord, for good or ill, has clearly positioned itself in terms of functionality against the Microsoft Word product. Not that there's anything wrong with that. After six years of putzing around ...
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NeTraverse rolls out Win4Lin 3.0 —
May 29, 2001 —
Austin, TX -- (press release excerpt) -- NeTraverse Inc. today announced the availability of NeTraverse Win4Lin 3.0. NeTraverse Win4Lin 3.0 enables Linux users to run popular Windows programs at native speeds without additional hardware or the need to dual boot, dramatically improving productivity and reducing hardware and OS license upgrade ...
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Defenestrating Windows —
May 09, 2001 —
Is Linux ready for the desktop? Early in 2000, Rick Lehrbaum, founder of LinuxDevices.com ("the Embedded Linux Portal"), vowed to leave Windows behind -- not just in the embedded market, but with respect to his own desktop computer. But he didn't quite realize what he was getting himself into. In ...
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Will penguins rule? Not any time soon! [eWEEK] —
Mar. 12, 2001 —
In this commentary at eWEEK, Jason Brooks questions whether Linux is likely to become a popular desktop operating system in the near future. Brooks writes . . . "If you believe what you read on Slashdot, we're rapidly approaching a desktop Linux revolution." "But whether or not Linux some day ...
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Linux moves slowly onto the desktop [CNET] —
Dec. 11, 2000 —
CNET's Stephen Shankland believes several recent developments have moved Linux a few steps closer to the abilities of the average computer user, but the alternative operating system still isn't a Windows killer. Shankland writes . . . "The K Desktop Environment (KDE), one of the two primary graphical user interfaces ...
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Installing the Knoppix LiveCD on a hard drive —
Dec. 27, 1997 —
[Updated Dec. 30, 2004] -- Please note: this news item and the associated article have been deleted at the request of the author of the article. Subsequent to publication of the article, the author informed DesktopLinux.com that he had copied portions of his article from a book, thereby violating the ...
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Qualsoftest benchmarks Desktop Linux —
Aug. 21, 1997 —
Qualsoftest Corporation has released preliminary tests evaluating Desktop Linux distributions versus Microsoft Windows XP from a end user’s experience. The goal of Qualsoftest’s independent tests was to demonstrate the usability of Linux on the desktop for end users. As Linux has dominated the server industry in recent months and marched ...
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Using Linux -- A Guide to Practical Apps —
Jan. 11, 1997 —
2002 has been a very good year for open source and Linux. The maturity of the 2.4 kernel series, the 1.0 release of Mozilla.org web browser and OpenOffice.org office suite and the proliferation and vast improvements among many other open source projects and technologies has positioned ...
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