Voglia di Linux

Secondo questo articolo il costo del cambiamento da XP a Vista per le piccole e medie imprese sar� quattro volte il costo di passare a Novell/Suse Linux, anche perch� Vista richiede quasi certamente ulteriori investizioni in hardware.

So, bottom line time, it will cost you $724 per PC to upgrade to Vista. Or, you could pay $170 per PC to get SLED. That’s a savings of $554 per user desktop

Installato e provato smart, il package manager multidistro. Funzoine bene e soprattutto � molto pi� veloce in partenza di Yast, che per aggiornare le repositories ci mette un secolo (con modem dialup). Il programmi sono ordinati per categorie e si trovano velocemente con la funziona di ricerca. Selezionare con tasto destro “install” o “remove” per i pacchetti vari, infine “accetta cambiamenti scelti”, la seconda iconcina della barra.
Ecco alcuni screenshot:

Per installarlo sequire questa istruzione o inserire semplicemente “smart” nel campo di ricerca di Yast. Si trova qui: ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm.

Una nuova chefalla di sicurezza denominata VML exploit colpisce Interner Explorer ma anche Outlook Express. Microsoft per tappare
preferisce di aspettare il famoso secondo Marted� del mese. Di Ottobre. Aumenter� la voglia di linux. (Nel primo link una protezione fai-da-te.)

La nuova moda di chi sfrutta queste falle � di installarvi un aggeggio che a sua volte scarica e installa cosa ritiene pi� opportuno…

A security update is now being finalized, but at this point, Microsoft plans to release it as part of its October security updates on October 10, three weeks away. A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed late Wednesday when asked by internetnews.com that the fix would come next month, not sooner.[...]

And Dunham said this code is spreading among underground virus sites quickly. ‘The exploit code is out there for people to copy, paste and start using. It’s trivial to leverage and reproduce. When it’s popularized and easy to do, it’s trouble,’ he said.”
“The VML exploit is a buffer overflow that allows for remote code execution, and in this case, it’s being used to download multi-stage, multi-chain attacks using a program called WebAttacker toolkit.”>
“Dunham said in one case, WebAttacker installed 73 files, including 15 executables, taking up 12 megabytes in size. It installed everything from proxies to dialers to keyloggers to spyware.”
“Sites also thinks this virus could be as nasty as WMF, if not worse. ‘Just looking at an email means you can be exploited. So things can escalate very quickly,’ he said.””

Quelli di Canonical ti mandano gratis a casa i cd di installazione per Linux.

Kubuntu

Ubuntu

Certe idee non sono male:

There are a lot of tools out there to make the system administrator’s life easier. However, no tool is a replacement for properly understanding the system and experience in troubleshooting unknown situations. This is where trouble-maker comes in. Unlike other projects, we do not attempt to solve problems — we cause them

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Secondo Forbes Linux arriva sempre di pi� sugli desktop:

Visit the home of a Silicon Valley software programmer and you’ll find two things: Macs and Linux boxes.

To these guys, Windows has become the operating system equivalent of the America Online Internet service–a mass-market product that only appeals to people who don’t know any better

Anche Chris Pirillo ne parla male, dicendo che

…first release candidate for Windows Vista feels more like an alpha to me (or early beta, at best). I’m not talking about performance issues, which will most likely be improved upon before this OS goes gold. No, it’s all about a cohesive user experience / user interface for me. Vista fails on most UI fronts. It doesn’t look or behave similarly across any part of the operating system. Even more sad? That’s by design, folks.

I never thought I’d say this, but… we’ve finally seen the day when KDE / Gnome look, work, and feel “better” than Windows. Vista is schizophrenic, and that disorder has been…

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