Ruminations on the Digital Realm

The Kobayashi Maru scenario figures in various Star Trek novels. It’s a no-win scenario that only a few are able to beat. One of those is Mackenzie Calhoun, the main character in the New Frontier books, who simply blew the Kobayashi Maru and it’s crew to smithereens. Writing about Linux distributions is like that, a [...]

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The battle of operating systems is over. The dust clouds of the Linux distributions wars can finally settle down. The victor is known to all and we simply have to bow our heads in gratitude. After working intensely with OpenSUSE 11.0 for at least a full day there is not a shadow of doubt that [...]

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I had some writing to do and this provided a good opportunity to actually spend a few hours on OpenSUSE 11.0. When trying to work with OpenSUSE the way I am used to work I quickly needed to install some new programs. I use Abiword often, since it is light and fast. Under Ubuntu I [...]

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While the Dutch soccer team got kicked out of the European Championship tournament I was watching the Earthquake 10.5 miniseries on the other channel and installing OpenSUSE 11.0 on my laptop. The series was fun with the usual list of plot elements. Intelligent scientist with ludicrous idea which proves to be the only correct idea, [...]

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An interesting article about Red Hat’s strategic view on the Linux desktop market. Some highlights:

the Linux desktop market is about small pennies, whereas the Linux server market is about big bucks,
Red Hat focuses on making it’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux business desktop friendly, channeling the novelties to the free Fedora desktop;
Fortune 500 companies want to [...]

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