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Harvard Concludes Linux Will Remain Second Best 460

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 10, 2006 @09:30AM from the i-said-number-two dept.

watzinaneihm writes "A Harvard Study which uses formal economic modelling to determine "Will OSS ever displace traditional software from its market leadership position?" came to a (not so?) surprising result. Linux is likely to remain second best as long as Microsoft has a first mover advantage."

Comment Re:Sub $500 HD-PVR? (Score 1) 248

by M.E. Polite on Sunday September 10, 2006 @09:11AM (#16075283) Attached to: MythTV Compared with Windows Media Center

I've been running Xboxen modified to run XBMC in different rooms of my home for a couple of years now. It's great, except that it can't capture and is pretty much just a front end for a PC/Media Server. I'm looking to step into a custom PVR for the main TV viewing room, and using it to feed media to XBMC in other rooms.

A Replacement for the i-Opener? 98

Posted by Cliff on Sunday September 10, 2006 @06:08AM from the a-no-hassle-internet-appliance dept.

kenh writes "For years my father has gotten along the Information Superhighway with just an i-Opener and an Earthlink account. However, the internet has moved too far ahead for his burned-in-ROM browser to be useful to him anymore, and dial-up is a bit slow these days. While investigating various options (Apple Macintosh, Knoppix Linux/Ubuntu Linux with USB key file storage, WebTV) I didn't find any that were very appealing, for a variety of reasons. Right now, I'm looking for something that has: dial-up support, no update/anti-virus/etc pop-ups, and no software 'update' downloads, support for PDFs, Flash, Javascript, and other features necessary to accommodate more modern websites. The i-Opener was 'foolproof', and if things went wrong, you could just shut it off and try again, Everything I see today lacks that ability (to varying extents)." What decent i-Opener replacements, if any, exist today?

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