Google May Challenge Microsoft Monopoly
… by creating an operating system based on their Chrome browser, which would be great for all of us, I think. Details here (MSNBC.com).
… by creating an operating system based on their Chrome browser, which would be great for all of us, I think. Details here (MSNBC.com).
I wanted to promote this comment to a post to make sure it’s noticed: BibleDesktop has been released with parallel Bible viewing. There is an option to show the differences between any two versions of the Bible in the same language. That was one of the key things I wanted, and I’m glad to see…
This guess post at Greg Laden’s blog gives one man’s experience switching to Linux. It’s a repost from 2009, so the version numbers are a bit different (Ubuntu is at 11.10 now), but it still gives a pretty good idea of what to expect. I would add the strong recommendation that when you switch operating…
Good for open source? Matt Asay thinks so. (Via @jasonhiner on Twitter)
The netbooks appear to be. A few months ago I passed my desktop to my wife because her machine was too slow for what she needed to do. I then took a machine that was slower (1.8 v 2.4 GHz) and had less memory (768 MB v 1 GB), and installed Ubuntu for my own…
I’ve been running Odoo on a Linode (1GB). I used Ubuntu 16.10 and the LAMP stack and things worked quite well. For what it’s worth, with three not-very-intense users, Odoo with inventory, accounting, sales, and project worked quite well on that minimal system. Because I wanted easier management of the system, I decided to switch…
Fun YouTube Video (HT: Greg Laden): Except for the word “choise,” but I guess I’ll forgive that.