Comments on: Keynote comparison: Linux or Windows

By: What would Al Gore use?

What would Al Gore use? — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:24:54 +0000

[...] use now? According to netcraft.com, algore.com uses Linux. Surely if Microsoft Windows was really “the new efficiency”he would have switched. Sorry Mr. Ballmer, the Linux grass is [...]

By: krk

krk — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:25:28 +0000

After working in a very Linux-oriented environment for four years I finally decided to make a the switch on a personal computer of mine. In May I installed Kubuntu 9.04 on my desktop machine (I recently switched to Ubuntu 9.10). Since then I’ve had two instances in which I’ve convinced users to switch to Linux. One friend downloaded a nasty virus on his XP machine, and after he tried to do a system restore (ill-advised) his machine was all but inoperable. I convinced him to let me install Kubuntu on his computer. He loved it. My father was running a 10+ year old machine with Windows 98 on it. He was having internet connection troubles. Instead of trying to work through the pains of Windows I just installed Ubuntu on his computer. It works great for him, and he’s adapting surprisngly well. I certainly don’t see myself paying for an OS ever again.

By: Roy Schestowitz (schestowitz) 's status on Thursday, 05-Nov-09 00:09:34 UTC - Identi.ca

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:09:43 +0000

[...] How #GNU #Linux Compares to #Windows http://whatwillweuse.com/2009/11/03/keynote-comparison-linux-or-windows/ [...]

By: Links 04/11/2009: Red Hat’s KVM Punch | Boycott Novell

Links 04/11/2009: Red Hat’s KVM Punch | Boycott Novell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:30:30 +0000

[...] Keynote comparison: Linux or Windows Mr. Powers advocated using free and open source software like the Linux operating system and OpenOffice. Instead of investing in proprietary software which costs hundreds of dollars per user, Mr. Powers recommended investing in people to support free software. As a professional system administrator and IT director of over 15 years, he is well familiar with the total cost of ownership of large enterprise deployments. At the school district where he works, we has been able to convince the board that savings to the tune of $90K+ of savings that Linux is worth doing, even though this means training adults to use unfamiliar Linux desktop software such Open Office. Children, according to Mr. Powers, do not care what software they use therefore they do not require Linux desktop training. As you are honest about the software’s shortcomings, moving to Linux will be worth it. [...]