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Dec

Business and Politics - how far does Microsoft want to go?

Posted by Christian  Published in Valentino's thoughts

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That in it’s essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt, [...]

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27

Dec

Adobe s / Macromedia s wrong decision on Flash

Posted by Christian  Published in Linux and Free Software

I have just read the blog entry of Tinic Uro, a developer for Adobe/Macromedia’s Flash player. He explains why Flash 8.0 will not come for Linux and why they are directly going to 8.5 for Linux instead.
I can understand the business background for this decision - of course you have to concentrate your work [...]

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27

Dec

A Christmas law suit

Posted by Christian  Published in Linux and Free Software

Ok folks, here we have it - Santa Claus got sued by the M$ puppet SCO…. I was waiting for this breaking news every day since I heard that Santa switched from SCO Unix to Linux…
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16

Dec

Installing Linux parallel to Windows on your PC

Posted by Christian  Published in Linux for Beginners

The first problem a Linux newbie encounters is that he wants to install Linux without wiping out his existing Windows installation.
Well, there are basically two solutions:
1. You can use a LiveCD.
That allows you to try Linux without touching your existing Windows installation. While this is a conveniant way to try Linux once or twice, [...]

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14

Dec

Bringing it to the point

Posted by Christian  Published in Valentino's thoughts

I found the following in a weblog:
Apple for style, Linux for security, Windows for Solitaire.
Hehe - really good, brings it all to the point
But since I bought Transgamings Cedega, I dont even need Windows for gaming anymore….

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12

Dec

Slashdotted - not quite

Posted by Christian  Published in Linux and Free Software, This Webserver

Wow, my story on Linux in Berlin and the German Department of State generated quite a lot of traffic, mainly coming from lxer.com and linuxtoday.com.
I am really amazed that my little webserver did handle all the traffic without a problem. Although I am using Linux now for quite a while, I find it astonishing that [...]

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8

Dec

Berlin is about to switch to Linux, too

Posted by Christian  Published in Linux and Free Software

First we take Munich, then we take Berlin….
According to a report on Heise Online (currently German language only), the city of Berlin, capital of Germany, is very likely to switch to Linux as currently does Munich. First, they will draft plans to migrate the servers, but the 58.000 Windows desktops will also be replaced sooner [...]

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