Posted on 01/24/2007 7:55:46 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
San Francisco (dpa) - A week before the launch of Microsoft's new Vista operating system, its open-source competitor Linux received a giant boost Monday as prominent high-tech companies announced they were forming a consortium to promote the free challenger.
The Linux Foundation, formed from two separate support groups, will have the backing of companies like IBM, HP, Intel, Oracle and Novell who aim to boost the free programme by providing promotion, standardisation and legal protection, according to James Zemlin, executive director of the foundation.
"It's really a two-horse race now, with computing dominated by two operating-system platforms, Linux and Windows," Zemlin told The New York Times.
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Linux is already popular in data centres and other commercial applications, where the annual sales of Linux-related hardware, software and services is more than 14.5 billion dollars, according to estimates by IDC, a research firm. But Linux has never penetrated to personal computers where Windows still dominates 90 per cent of the market.
Now that Photoshop CS2 works on Linux, there's only one app left, Flash MX, that I need in order to switch to Linux for good. I suspect that this will be coming soon, since Adobe appears to be seeing the light with regards to Linux.
For me, Linux is the only choice, since I refuse to do the designer hardware thing and go Apple. If they'd release OSX for use on a PC though, I'd switch in a second.
Pre-emptive ping...
pretty much the same story here...
folks aren't happy that I run Linux, but they run Windows and when something goes wrong, they're the first to whine about it.
go figure...
The company I work for has a flagship product running AIX. Our keyboard jockeys are busy porting our code over to Linux in anticipation of IBM's switch to that OS.
PS CS2 on linux, natively? Link? I've obviously missed that one.
You have to install it on a Windows box first and move the files and reg settings to the nix box.
http://www.knithx.net/2006/07/29/how-to-run-photoshop-cscs2-in-linux/
It works though. I don't mind having to jump through a hoop or two for what I need, though I'd prefer to have official releases of these things.
LOL
But that's with W.I.N.E. Not exactly being supported from Adobe.
=^)
The major thing about Vista that scares me is the blatant abuse of the user in its implementation of copyright protection. There is a long paper floating about on the internet about all the ways that Vista can screw you if you're trying to play protected content. It is bloatware to the nth degree.
What gives me pause is that now the slightest change in hardware configuration on my computer prevents reinstallation of VISTA.
I ususally am forced to upgrade something at least once a year (sometimes more) and I don't look forward to a) wiping my computer totally clean each time, or paying for another copy of the OS.
Another valid point. Micro$oft may have just caused too much crap with this release...Mac is picking up market share. What happened to delivering a quality piece of software to the customer?
What could Apple do to improve their appearance? They don't sell gumdrop-shaped, candy-colored computers any more. Their current case designs can only be described as 'minimalist'.
The iMac is just a plain white flat box on a stand. 
The Mac mini is just a small gray box.
Their designs look good, but it's hard to see how they could be made more plain or simple.
Plain and simple isn't everything. Upgradability is important to some. Macs remind me of the empty, sterile, houses featured on magazine covers. The lights are on, but no one lives there.
I disagree. The Mac is lively machine, especially when iTunes is playing your music, iPhoto is showing your pictures, iMovie is showing your home videos, etc.
But Mac users don't have a cesspool of worms, viruses, spyware and spambots partying inside our computers, wrecking the place. That trash lives in the house of Windows.
It has nothing to do with how it looks. I like to build my own machines to my own specifications. I refuse to be tied to any brand of hardware regardless of how 'cool' it looks, which is way the heck low on my priority list when it comes to computers.
They'll be picking up my share soon. I've already had enough, and Vista is the writing on my wall.
More simply put, a mac is a permanent loan.
You may own it, but it's still ultimately apple's.
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