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Who Will Win ofb.biz’s Shootout?

  Submitted by Timothy R. Butler Linux 18 Comments
"It has been several months since we began our quest to find the best desktop GNU/Linux distribution of the Fall/Winter 2002 batch. We have considered lots of distributions that attempt to innovated and streamline the Linux experience and now we consider who succeeded to push beyond the rest and win our award." Find out the results here.
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UnitedLinux Review at ZDNet

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"UnitedLinux was designed by a group of Linux vendors to streamline their development and certification around a single Linux version. This server operating system combines technologies from each of its founding members. Released in November 2002, UnitedLinux is based on a wide variety of standards so that developers can design software that is portable across Linux platforms. UnitedLinux is a server operating system intended for Linux's primary growth areas — for enterprise and Web server applications." Read the article at TechUpdate.
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Choosing a Linux Distro, Part II

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This article is a followup to an article I wrote on 2-20-2003 about my experiences choosing a Linux distribution that would suit my needs and wants. My principal requirements for an OS are that it be powerful and up to date, easy to use and set up--I don't mind using the command line and I don't mind editing a file here and there, but I like doing this type of editing for fun, not because I have to. I also want an OS that is fast and looks nice on my PII 450 with about 350 MB of RAM.
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Yoper Ydesktop V1 Release Announced

  Submitted by Stefanos Titanas Linux 67 Comments
"Today is a great day for PC users, both personal and business alike, and a great day for the PC industry with the launch of Yoper - Your Operating System," reads the bombastic release announcement for Yoper V1. Yoper (Your Perfect Operating System) is a lean and fast Linux distribution with an endearing superiority complex. This is the debut release of Ydesktop, which is aimed at workstation/desktop or terminal server use. See more at Yoper.com.
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Switching to Linux – One User’s Story

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"Pennsylvania attorney Kevin L. Ritchey has written an open letter about using Linux on the desktop -- from the user's perspective. Ritchey chronicles his successful switch to Linux, laments a few features still in need of improvement, and offers us his opinions as an average daily user of Desktop Linux. Ritchey did not make a switch because of cost or philosophical reasons -- rather he moved to Linux because it worked better and was more productive." Read it at DesktopLinux.com.
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Linus Torvalds: The Benevolent, Brilliant Keeper of the Kernel

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"The Linux kernel project is growing up. New contributors, job delegation, and a source code control system have changed the way the kernel gets hacked. The guy at the center of it all -- Linus Torvalds -- has changed, too. Gone are his days as poster boy for Open Source. He doesn't do Comdex keynotes anymore; he's not on the covers of business magazines; and he rarely gives interviews. No, these days, Linus is all about what he does best: hacking the kernel and keeping a sure and steady hand on the rudder of everyone's favorite project." Read the interview at Linux-Mag.com.
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Perceptions: Is Linux a Suitable Desktop Platform?

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In this guest column at DesktopLinux.com, former SCO evangelist and Samba.org team leader John H. Terpstra weighs in on market perceptions about Linux and its suitability for the desktop. Interviewing a sample group –- that included 30 people evenly split in the Linux and MS camps -- Terpstra discovered each group cited the very same arguments in defending their OS of choice! The author sought definitive answers about the state of Desktop Linux and reasons for and against a switch to Linux. The results, and key factors, were not as expected.
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Linux: Where The Anticipatory Scheduler Shines

  Submitted by Bascule Linux 19 Comments
Andrew Morton recently posted some interesting benchmarks comparing the current 2.4 IO scheduler, a "hacked" version of the deadline IO scheduler in 2.5.61, the CFQ scheduler, and the anticipatory scheduler. Offering a succinct "executive summary" of his results, Andrew said, "the anticipatory scheduler is wiping the others off the map, and 2.4 is a disaster." Indeed, in many of the tests the other IO schedulers were measured in minutes, whereas the anticipatory IO scheduler was measured in mere seconds. Read the report at KernelTrap by Jeremy Andrews.
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Before Linux Is on Every Desktop…

  Submitted by sunlit mechanism Linux 35 Comments
It's more likely to keep making greater strides in single-use areas, such as cash registers, than in consumers' PCs says BusinessWeek. However, the future of Linux probably rests with corporate IT departments says Will Harvie in his talks to Kiwi organisations about using open-source operating systems and software.
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