
"I like the ease of use combined with common-sense security options and configurability I like that it reaches out to Windows users without alienating the Linux community." She offers many installation details in her review. "This distribution is Linux through and through, but it could just be the Linux that will truly snag a market that is looking to escape from the confines of Windows," writesTina Gasperson for. The company touts it as a bridge between Linux and Windows, with many implementation features similar to Windows and the ability to deal simply with Microsoft. The latest version of what used to be Corel Linux OS, now Xandros Desktop, has just been released ($99 for a single license). But there's a fair amount of information available if you're patient enough to keep clicking. It's not quite as linear as I'd like - that is, it takes a fair amount of travel through pages to get more than a snippet of information, since most pages are very short.

It's probably not for savvy sysadmins, but for others who've never worked with Linux on the desktop, Linux Online has posted a Getting Started With Linux online tutorial. Fujitsu made its announcement in Japan, likely to be the first market to see the new products. An IBM official told conference attendees that Big Blue has deployed the OS for several large German customers.įujitsu says it will be adopting Linux as a key OS, with a goal of having "commercialised large-scale, mission-critical enterprise systems running on Linux within the next three years," The Register reports.

Linux "is making significant inroads into Germany, Europe's largest economy and home to some of the world's largest corporations, the IDG News Service reports from the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Frankfurt. Read his conclusions in Comparing Apples and Penguins. I'm glad I'm not wading through his mailbox this week (wonder if he's got SpamAssassin). You can read his full review or head to the SpamAssassin project page on SourceForge site for more info.īyte columnist Moshe Barr is a brave man: He takes on two of the most passionate, vocal and likely-to-flame tech communities in trying to compare Mac OS X and Linux on an Apple Xserve.
