[News] Windows Starts Learning from GNU/Linux

Desktop Faceoff: Fedora vs. Vista

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| Fedora and its default GNOME desktop may still have a few lessons to learn
| from Vista, particularly in the selection of administration tools. Yet in
| terms of almost everything that's important to users, Fedora and GNOME have
| overtaken Vista and are rapidly pulling away from it.
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| As the addition of the side panel shows, it is Windows that is starting to
| learn from GNU/Linux. The days when the situation was the other way around
| are over.
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The 10 Commandments for New Linux Users

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| 1. Thou shalt not log in as root.
| Use â€śsudoâ€? or â€śsu -â€? for administrative tasks.
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| [...]
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| 9. Thou shalt not try to recreate Windows.
| Linux is not meant to be a clone of Windows. Itâ€™s different.
| Embrace and appreciate the differences.
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Related:

Did Microsoft just patent sudo?

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| 1985, huh? And when did this Microsoft patent happen? It was filed in
| 2000. Well gee, that doesn't make sense. How'd they get the patent?
| It certainly falls under the category of "obvious" if there's prior
| art such as sudo.
|
| What makes this whole thing funny, though, is something I saw a couple
| days ago. Head over to Builder-AU and listen to Peter Watson from
| Microsoft. He says,
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| "User Account Control is a great idea and strategically
| a direction that sort of all operating systems and all technology
| should be heading down"
|
| Excuse me? Does he really believe this is all Microsoft's great new
| idea?
|
| In the end, this seems like a patent that Microsoft will hold up and
| say "we have a patent and Linux is violating it!" They won't ever

[H]omer...

No doubt this is one of the infamous "235 infringements". Did Microsoft
steal the other 234 as well, one wonders?

| sue on it though (just leave the threat hanging to scare away
| potential users), because then they could have the patent revoked.
| It's better for them to just wave it around.
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Microsoft Rips off Researchers at Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona

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| Recently while on vacation I was flipping channels and came across a
| channel called â€ścurrent TVâ€?, what caught my eye was a Â computer Â booting
| to Kubuntu. This computer looked remarkably like Microsoftâ€™s new
| Surface touch table. Funny thing is the reactable has been around
| over three years and research has been going on much longer than that.
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