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Dont Preach Linux. Just Mention it

Posted by: Anurag Panda on: July 27, 2008

This post is inspired by this thread. Special Thanks to “smartboyathome” at Ubuntu Forums.
A lot of Linux users especially the ones who are newly finding their feet and have become recent converts of Linux get far too enthusiastic about the joys and benefits they experience after they have converted to Linux. They get excited and [...]

Making Hardy Heron as LTS was a tactical mistake

Posted by: Anurag Panda on: May 15, 2008

In April Canonical released Ubuntu 8.04 LTS more popularly known as Hardy Heron. It was the eighth Ubuntu version to be released so far but more importantly it is an LTS release which means that it would be supported 3 years for the desktop and five years for the servers.
The word LTS or “Long Term [...]

How piracy hurts open source

Posted by: Anurag Panda on: June 5, 2007

Just the other day I conducted a survey among my friends about the genuine status of their Operating System. And the result of the survey was:

Genuine Windows 9%
Pirated Windows 89%
Linux/Mac 1%

This did not come a surprise to me as I live in India, here pirated software rules thanks to high prices [...]


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