For quite a while, I had considered nuking Windows from my laptop and starting fresh. A few weeks ago, I finally took the plunge. I started with a full backup (two, actually — a file-by-file backup, and a partition image). I toyed with the idea of dual-booting, but finally decided that I’d try to go completely non-Windows, and see how well I could get by.
After hearing one of my co-workers rave about how impressed he was with Fedora Core, I was going to give that a try. [...]
By Dougal
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Also posted in Browsers, Open Source, Operating Systems, Tech
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Tagged Firefox, InternetExplorer, Laptops, Microsoft, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Ubuntu, Unix, Windows
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Microsoft puts out a lot of FUD claiming that Linux is inferior to Windows. But their new company-wide wireless network will be driven by Linux-based equipment.
Aruba Networks was selected to provide the networking equipment for what is considered to be one of the world’s largest next-generation wireless LANs, serving more than 25,000 simultaneous users a day in some 60 countries. [...]
Cool, IBM and Zend have announced Zend Core for IBM. Basically, it’s an officially supported version of PHP with tight integration into IBM’s DB2 and Cloudscape database servers, and some web services stuff. [...]
By Dougal
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Also posted in News, Software, Tech
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Tagged Apache, IBM, Microsoft, Perl, PHP, Programming, Ruby, Web, WebSphere, Zend
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