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Are you in the market for a new laptop, desktop or server PC with Linux installed? Please give us the opportunity to quote a preloaded Linux laptop, desktop or server system for you. I took the plunge to migrate my personal / business desktop PC from Mandriva 2010.2 to Mageia 1 . . . → Read More: Open Source: Live Migration of Mandriva to Mageia  Are you in the market for a new laptop, desktop or server PC with Linux installed? Please give us the opportunity to quote a preloaded Linux laptop, desktop or server system for you. By the way, if you did not read my previous article, Open Source Horror Story – A Linux Recovery Tale, . . . → Read More: Open Source: Mandriva 2011 vs Mageia 1 Edit Wed Oct 5 23:28:50 CDT 2011: The laptop in this review is no longer available. Our new laptops use nVidia video controllers and thus work fine for 3D with the nVidia drivers if that is what one wants. Go to Laptop Quote on our shopping site to see the specifications for these. . . . → Read More: New Linux Laptop from ERACC – Self-Review * Well, almost everyone. If one just wants to backup a few files on random occasions then Bacula is not the software to use. But if one wants to run regular, scheduled backups to just about any type of storage media then Bacula will most definitely work. I must admit, I . . . → Read More: Linux: Bacula is for Everyone* (backup software) Back in January of this year (2011) I was on-site at one of our local client offices setting up yet another Microsoft Windows XP system for a dedicated use. That PC is there just for running the United Parcel Service (UPS) WorldShip™ software for the client to enter UPS shipments off-line then batch . . . → Read More: A Miniature Linux Office Solution (Mini ITX) Late in 2010 one of our charitable organization clients, a local church, came to these decisions: 1) The aging XP Professional systems in their office needed to be replaced with new systems. 2) The existing XP Professional systems that were not so old needed to be upgraded to newer operating systems. 3) The . . . → Read More: Linux: Successful Upgrade – SBS 2003 to Linux Update October 2011: I have left Mandriva due to problems with its change in ownership and direction in late 2010. The Mageia Linux distribution, a Mandriva fork, has all the things I liked about Mandriva, but none of the management problems that are affecting Mandriva’s quality. The points I make in this article in regard . . . → Read More: Linux: The Best New User Distribution is not Necessarily Ubuntu You have a relatively new PC with your favorite Linux distribution installed. You are content and all is well with the world. Then you discover that your motherboard needs an update to the BIOS to allow some new hardware to work properly with your PC. Alas! Your almost new PC, which has an on-board floppy . . . → Read More: Linux: Updating a Linux Unfriendly Motherboard BIOS I often see the sentiment expressed that desktop Linux is “too hard” for the average PC user. Yet the qualification for “too hard” is usually that it is too hard to install Linux or too hard to fix problems on Linux for the average user. These arguments seem to completely overlook the fact that an . . . → Read More: Desktop Linux: An Average User Success Story This is part one of a two part article about a “real life” control system that is a candidate for moving to a VM on Linux. This control system is being used right now in a real manufacturing facility. Last year in February I wrote the article “Windows 98? Linux and VirtualBox! (Maybe)“. It is . . . → Read More: Virtual Control – Linux, VirtualBox and OS/2 or eComStation |
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