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Linux now an equal Flash player (Linux-Watch)
Linux-Watch reports on Adobe's release of the proprietary Flash Player 10 for Linux."Welcome to the future. Linux is now a first-class desktop operating system citizen. Adobe today released version 10 of its Adobe Flash Player, available now in a variety of convenient packaging formats for Linux, as well as other popular desktop operating systems.Once upon a time, desktop Linux was a second-class citizen, where Flash was concerned. As recently as 2007, Linux users waited six months for Flash 9 to arrive.Now, while Microsoft appears bent on leaving Linux users behind on Silverlight technology, its Flash alternative, Adobe has made Linux an equal player."
An IT Admin’s Dream Come True: The Promise of Desktop Virtualization
Join MokaFive co-founder and CTO, John Whaley, as he discusses desktop virtualization as a potential dream-come-true for IT administrators faced with demanding users and impending disasters. Whaley will cover how desktop virtualization provides solutions to accommodate a mobile workforce including secure remote access, ability to work online or offline, running complete operating systems and applications off a USB flash drive or iPod, and centrally-managed updates delivered simultaneously. Whaley will also talk about key security benefits to building and deploying virtual desktops including malware immunity, backing up to the cloud and automatic rejuvenation.read more
GNOME 2.24 Released
The GNOME project has released GNOME 2.24 today. In case you're new here: "GNOME 2.24 is the latest version of the GNOME Desktop: a popular, multi-platform desktop environment for your computer. GNOME's focus is ease of use, stability, and first class internationalisation and accessibility support. GNOME is Free and Open Source Software and provides all of the common tools computer users expect of a modern computing environment, such as e-mail, groupware, web browsing, file management, multimedia and games. Furthermore, GNOME provides a flexible and powerful platform for software developers, both on the desktop and in mobile applications." GNOME 2.24 comes packed with changes.
Linux versus Windows: another fine Microsoft TCO Analysis
Almost a month ago, on September 24th, fellow zdnet blogger Mary Jo Foley filed a report under the title: Microsoft: Windows and Linux offer same TCO in emerging markets, which she introduced as: While Linux may be cheaper up front, but over time, Windows and Linux offer roughly the same total-cost-of-ownership to customers deploying large numbers of PCs in schools in emerging markets. As she points out, this Microsoft conclusion comes from work done for Microsoft by a company called "Vital Wave Consulting", so I thought I'd read the whole thing (PDF). By volume most of the report is made up of: many assertions that using computers in schools improves education and economic opportunity; For example (from the ...
Would You Like Linux With Your Jello? (Linux Journal)
Linux Journal takesa look at a hospital with Linux thin clients for patients. "Thehappy healers at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, in conjunction withLinux luminaries IBM and Novell, as well as the networkers at NoMachine,have found a way to insert Linux into the lives of its patients. Ratherthan blank walls and bad TV to stare at, patients in the new West Tower atGlendale Adventist have access to the outside world, via Linux-based thinclients available right in the patient's room. The setup utilizes serversfrom IBM, the networking and compression expertise of NoMachine, and SUSELinux Enterprise Desktop to provide patients with access to the internet,where they can do everything from learning about their condition andtreatment to keeping family and friends abreast of their progress via thestandard cast of internet characters: Twitter, Facebook, and theomnipresent blogs."
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