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Friday, August 8, 2003 |
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Windows Killer Ximian XD2 took about 10 hours to download on our 144K line - 390 MB in all. www.gulker.com may have been a bit slow to respond during that time - sorry - the bandwidth on the U. of Oregon mirror site is admirable, but we're a bit constrained here. Anyway, it downloaded, configured itself and my Red Hat 8.0 system, and I now have for free (save for the bandwidth) the highly touted desktop that Novell just bought, and that many corporations are betting real money will displace Windows on enterprise desktops. We're going to try to use it for a week, instead of Mac OS X, our current *NIX favorite... Comments 11:53:50 PM 
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WayWest is back: Nolan Hester has moved his blog to Typepad, and he says he likes Typepad, an easier-to-use interface built on Movable Type, a lot. Welcome back... some very nice photos often grace Nolan's site... Comments 5:25:56 PM
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Linux desktop: 20% market share in 5 years: just got off the phone with a guy at a very large IT outsourcing firm that has been testing Linux desktops. He says desktops like Ximian's XD2 are just what was needed to make it possible for governments and very large enterprises to move to Linux.
His firm originally didn't see much future for Linux as a desktop outside of technical settings, but recent testing with real-world users, and a huge amount of customer demand driven by Microsoft's very unpopular new licensing options have caused his firm to re-think. They now assert that Linux could grab 20% of the market for enterprise desktops by 2008.
He also says Linux is significantly cheaper than Microsoft, especially in very large companies and not just because of licensing fees. His firm figures administration is 20 to 30% less because scripting is much better on Linux than MS and because everything in the OS is documented and accessible. Hardware costs can be 50% less because Linux requires fewer resources and doesn't suffer from creeping feature bloat the way MS apps do - you don't have to upgrade hardware every 2 years to run a word processor and browser. They are about to install Linux desktops on 7000 machines at a very large financial instituion as a test... |
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Mail server options: Mac OS X hints has a tip on how to build your own Mac.com (formerly iTools) on OS X 10.1.5. Interesting idea... use sendmail... Comments 12:09:18 PM
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Ximian XD2 desktop is being downloaded to my Linux machine as we speak. The installer is very nice, so far, and all we have to do is pull down 360 MB worth of stuff. Should be interesting.... Comments 11:11:40 AM
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Google News Alerts is a new Google feature that will email you whenever a topic of choice shows up in one of the 4500 news sources that it indexes. Free clipping service... presumably we'll see ads in those emails? Comments 10:27:25 AM
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The floating fog screen uses a laminar air flow to position a very thin layer of fog that you can project crisp images on. Cool... Comments 10:13:52 AM
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OK, I've had it with my Mac OS X Server (10.1.4) mail server. It's now crashed 3 times in a week, and the SMTP server keeps telling me I'm not authorized to send mail. Arrrgh.
Trick is what to use? And natch, I'd like to preserve as many of the accounts and settings as possible. Suggestions very welcome for a stable, free mail server for either OS X or Linux... |
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