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Comment Re:Linux as desktop OS == FAILURE (Score 1) 353

by zblach on Tuesday September 02, 2008 @08:05AM (#24840927) Attached to: How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution

I know that anecdotes do not constitute evidence, but I've had the opposite experience as you. Back when I used to run WinXP as my primary OS, it would bluescreen out (no message. just 1280x1024x0x00F) every eight hours. I chalked it down to a bad graphics card, but Ubuntu would keep going for weeks at a time. I eventually ditched Ubuntu too, but (in *nix land) a GUI is seperate from the core OS. Between screen and top, I've never had the command line lock up on me.

Submission + - Red Hat Linux gets top government security rating

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zakeria

on Monday June 18, 2007 @12:05AM

zakeria writes: "Red Hat Linux has received a new level of security certification that should make the software more appealing to some government agencies. Earlier this month IBM was able to achieve EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, putting it on a par with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Trusted Solaris operating system, said Dan Frye, vice president of open systems with IBM."

Submission + - Google becoming a force in national campaigns (onthemedia.org)

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Reverberant

on Sunday June 17, 2007 @09:28PM

Reverberant writes: "NPR's On the Media ran a segment on Google. While the segment touched about the widely reported story of Google's low privacy ranking, the segment also examined Google's growing influence on national politics by way of YouTube. The correspondents speculate that, in the not-to-distant future, candidates may have to make visits to Google's Mountain View headquarters in the same way that candidates today have sit-downs with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register "

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