The above comparisons are all from one site (Phoronix), and all from just the first page. They're all comparing Ubuntu to...something; occasionally even itself.
Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:20 | Written by chris_f |
Something had to give in Oracle's acquisition of Sun.
Granted, Oracle isn't in the open-source business (having co-opted Red Hat Enterprise Linux and rebadged it so they could say they had a *nix-based OS). And technically, Solaris--the *nix-based OS from Sun Microsystems--wasn't completely open-source in the first place; they held back some of the code for their enterprise clientele. In fact, Solaris never really had a chance in the desktop market in the first place.
Monday, 01 February 2010 23:43 | Written by chris_f |
While chris_k discovers that 1st-year IT schooling isn't as easy as he thought, and mike_k is out wherever he is writing a script to automate half the Gulf Coast on a machine running only a Pentium Pro and 32MB of RAM, I figured I'd take the opportunity to address a basic concept that a number of us have taken for granted: Why is Linux synonymous with security?
Sunday, 17 January 2010 01:28 | Written by chris_f |
I've mentioned it before, in these pages and elsewhere. There is a movement to port Linux apps, an entire desktop environment, and, indeed, the kernel itself, to Windows. Slowly. Insidiously.
Monday, 11 January 2010 00:53 | Written by chris_f |
In the grand scheme of things, Linux hasn't been around all that long. It's been around longer than most people know about since most people have only recently heard of it (and it certainly hasn't been a full-fledged desktop for all that long) but Windows, BSD, and the original Mac all predate it, and it is not, contrary to some, directly descended from UNIX.
At The Center Of It All
Sunday, 11 July 2010 15:59 | 
Written by chris_f | 
Something had to give in Oracle's acquisition of Sun.
While chris_k discovers that 1st-year IT schooling isn't as easy as he thought, and mike_k is out wherever he is writing a script to automate half the Gulf Coast on a machine running only a Pentium Pro and 32MB of RAM, I figured I'd take the opportunity to address a basic concept that a number of us have taken for granted: Why is Linux synonymous with security?
