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Ubuntu Says Microsoft's Netbook Claims are True

Chris Kenyon from Ubuntu sponsor Canonical has posted a rebuttal of sorts to Microsoft's netbook market share claims, which it calls "FUD." Most of it is an opinion piece, so let's just jump straight to the relevant bits. It requires a lot of cut and paste, because he intersperses little...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-15-2009
Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Looks like Microsoft has released an update for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V so that it can work more efficiently with Linux guest OSes. Brief Description A set of drivers that enable synthetic device support in supported Linux virtual machines under Hyper-V. Overview When installed in a supported Linux...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-11-2009
Time to queue up 2009's first 'Year of the Linux Desktop' joke

Well, maybe not. In this New York Times article , Ubuntu Linux is the focus, and I'm OK with that: Ubuntu is, by a wide margin, the only Linux version that has any chance (albeit one of the snowball in hell variety) of succeeding with consumers. But I think the key here is not "consumers in...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-11-2009
A Microsoft Veteran Embraces Open Source

John Markoff of the New York Times blogs about an interesting new self-published book by a former Microsoft employee: Keith Curtis has just written a book about the future of software. That in itself isn’t unique. More unusual is that Mr. Curtis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft, the world’s...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 12-01-2008
VirtualBox

I must somewhat sheepishly admit that I'd never heard of Sun's VirtualBox virtualization solution, but a few people recommended it today on Twitter so I thought I'd give it a look. What I see looks promising. On Windows (client), there are two traditional virtualization solutions that most...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 09-05-2008
Seven client OSes that won't replace Windows

But what the heck, it makes for a cute article . Not to ruin the surprise, but they are: 1. Mac OS X 2. Linux 3. Solaris/Open Solaris 4. FreeBSD 5. Midori (Which isn't even an OS) 6. iPhone OS/Symbian/Android 7. The Revenge of Netscape (Web) So, what's the real take-away here? That ... 1) None...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 08-19-2008
The Perfect Desktop - Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Seeing the title of this article, I assumed it was a review. Instead, we get something far more valuable: A very in-depth look at how to install and configure Ubuntu Linux 8.04 in an optimal fashion . I recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 on the Shuttle PC I've been testing, and I'll try out at least...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-30-2008
Ubuntu 8.04 around the Web

In keeping with my ongoing look at Ubuntu Linux 8.04, here are some interesting articles I've seen about this new release: eWeak: Ubuntu 8.04 Is Ready to Take On Windows I used my second test machine, an Athlon 64-based desktop running Windows Vista, to try out Ubuntu 8.04's newest installation...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-29-2008
Ubuntu 8.04 feature tour

I've been working with Ubuntu 8.04 in my spare time over the past weekend, and I'm definitely going to be reviewing it sometime soon. (I don't know how or why I let so much time slip by, but the last time I reviewed an Ubuntu distribution was almost three years ago [!!!] with version 5.04...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-28-2008
Things I'm waiting for

Offline access to Google Docs OK, I admit that Google Docs is mostly useless. (In fact, I'm surprised no one has pointed out that the silly little text editor in Microsoft's Office Live Workspace pretty much provides all the functionality of Google Docs' word processing component.) But I'm...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 04-22-2008

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