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Moving from Windows to Linux, A Starting Point

Windows to Linux: A Beginner’s Startup Guide – www.reallylinux.com “If you have any experience with Windows, the switch to Linux will be relatively simple. Truly, the biggest challenge is to find the tools and applications you need in Linux. This beginner HOW-TO article will hopefully give you plenty of ideas how to access those key tools and how they relate to Windows.“

This is a good article for those about to chase the penguin:) It includes links to a number of other good pieces on transitioning to Linux and using the applications you will find on the Linux desktop.

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Sun Set To Release OpenSolaris

Sun releasing OpenSolaris technologies via open source | InfoWorld | News | 2005-06-13 | By Paul Krill
“OpenSolaris will run on Intel (Profile, Products, Articles) x86 and 64-bit AMD Opteron systems as well as on Sun’s Sparc hardware. Sun hopes to leverage the operating system by offering support packages. The company also is hopeful that seeding the market with OpenSolaris will boost demand for its portfolio of other products, Goguen said.“

When released, OpenSolaris will be available here.

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Microsoft Follows Chinese Censorship

BetaNews | MSN Blocks ‘Forbidden Speech’ in Blogs
“Following the lead of competitors Yahoo and Google, Microsoft has blocked the use of words such as “democracy” and “human rights” in some of its services for Chinese users – including its Spaces blogs. The move is likely to appease the Chinese government, which has strongly urged Web sites to self-censor themselves.“

OK, I get the part about needing to follow the local laws of a country, but come on. The scary part is that this could set a corporate precedent for bowing to governmental pressure to censor speech on the web even in a America. Suppose our government decides that certain words or phases needn’t be written on the web. Who will stand up to them to demand our rights?

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Building a Linux Virtual Server Cluster

NewsForge | Building a Linux virtual server
“With the explosive growth of the Internet, the workload on servers providing Web, email, and media services has increased greatly. More and more sites are being challenged to keep up with the growing demands and are employing several techniques to avoid overloading their servers. Building a scalable server on a cluster of computers is one of the solutions that is being effectively put to use. With such a cluster, the increasing requests can be easily managed by simply adding one or more new servers to the existing cluster as required. In this article we will look at setting up one such scalable, network load-balancing server cluster using a virtual server via the Linux Virtual Server Project.“

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Study Says Linux Adoption Slowing

Linux Adoption Stalls, Study Says – Yahoo! News
“Linux’s strongest workload gains were in the smallest and largest organizations, while Windows gained workload fastest in the midsize companies, Cowen said. Windows, however, gained workload faster than Linux in all but the smallest companies.“

Seems like ‘Dawn of the Point-and-Click SysAdmin’. Let’s face it, it is faster and easier to deploy more Windows servers than it is Linux (or Unix for that matter). Does that make Windows better, more stable, more secure, less expensive? No, just faster and easier. Microsoft has made great strides in the educational arena, seeing that its products get lots of favorable attention in the training of new sysAdmins. If your background is in Windows, deploying and managing any other OS, especially Linux, is daunting. Nobody wants all the work of the extra work. So, more Windows:)

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Dave’s New Outliner Is Web-ready

Scripting News: 6/6/2005
“What would be the point of having an editor whose native format is OPML and not have it natively push outlines up to the web?“

Well that is a good question. I hope getting the outline on web enables fun features like including other outlines and ‘buddy lists’ of shared outlines. A good networked outliner can really be useful:)

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phpCollegeExchange: Higher Ed Student Focused Portal

phpCollegeExchange
“PhpCollegeExchange is a full fledged college community website. It is designed to be the unofficial portal, put up by students for their fellow college students. It is code that has been used and abused so bugs are found and fixed as new features are added. Installation and customization still requires a little knowledge of PHP and HTML.“

A little tooling up and this would work for any given law school. Or how about if CALi runs one for all law students. They could certainly sell each other books and apartment rentals could break out by city.

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PJ’s Looking For CALIoppix…

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“One sweet day I’d like to do a Knoppix distro specialized for lawyers and law students. I would like to do it today, but there are some missing pieces.”

…but she doesn’t know it yet. CALIoppix, a special version of Knoppix for CALi members could easily do what she is thinking about. And it isn’t that hard.

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