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50 000 Linux Desktops deployed in Brazil

02/14/2007  
Relevance: 6.35
BitWay Computadores, EnabledPeople and IMTECH Brazil companies today announced that they made large PC desktops deployments for«Computers for All» Brazil federal government program. Ready PC solution provided by Bitway includes preinstalled Linux XP Desktop operating system developed by EnabledPeople and supported by IMTECH. Estimated month deployment is about 10000 desktops with 50000 desktops already delivered.
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Gameloft Moves 1,000 Desktops to Ubuntu

10/04/2008  
Relevance: 5.80
Businesses are catching on to Ubuntu. The latest example: Gameloft, a major mobile games developer, has moved more than 1,000 desktops to Ubuntu, The VAR Guy has learned. But Gameloft isn’t alone. The VAR Guy’s research is tracking hundreds of companies moving to Ubuntu.Here’s the scoop.
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Google starts running Dell Linux Desktop ads

03/30/2007  
Relevance: 5.62
On March 28, Dell quietly announced that it would start offering a variety of laptops and desktops with pre-installed Linux. Now, Dell has started advertising its Linux desktops on Google ads. While working on my personal blog site, which happens to have Google Adsense ads running on it, I was surprised to find Google ads for Linux-powered Dell desktops showing up. Here's what I saw:
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Get more out of Ubuntu's virtual desktops

03/25/2008  
Relevance: 5.60
Perhaps the greatest single productivity-boosting feature in Linux is the ability to open several virtual desktops at one time. This allows you to create separate work environments for various simultaneous tasks, such as one with a word processor, image editor, and spreadsheet open for creating a report, and another with e-mail and browser windows active for keeping in touch with co-workers. The multiple desktops let you focus on the task at hand without interruption, but switch to your other active workspace with a single click.
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Monolithic OS upgrades are so over

09/27/2007  
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The days of the monolithic upgrade are over. Five years, $6bn later and what do the ingrates do? Ask for a downgrade to Windows XP. Even Newham Council, which over the past couple of years veered from Linux pilot poster child to Vista case study as one of Microsoft's five key public sector accounts in the UK, has now delayed the upgrade of 1,500 desktops by 12 months. The council is now in the bizarre situation of facing a deployment of 1,500 CP desktops next spring, which will be over a year since Vista's launch. These desktops will then be upgraded to Vista sometime at the end of 2008.
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WSJ: Linux homes in on desktops

03/15/2007  
Relevance: 5.40
The Wall Street Journal Tuesday published an informative article on how Linux is finally starting to get some real traction as the operating system of choice in business and personal desktops and laptops -- not just in servers in data centers.
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Open Source Desktop: Xfce's Advantages

03/29/2007  
Relevance: 5.36
Most GNU/Linux users choose GNOME or KDE for desktops without thinking. However, many alternatives exist, ranging from minimalist graphic environments in window managers like IceWM to entire alternative desktops, such as ROX. Of these alternatives the best-known and most polished is Xfce.
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Tutorial: Graphical Remote Control Desktops for Linux, part 3

11/07/2008  
Relevance: 5.36
A. Lizard's in-depth howto on setting up secure remote graphical desktops wraps up today with the final server and client setup, and how to get through firewalls.
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Linux lands on government desktops in Europe

12/01/2006  
Relevance: 5.36
Linux desktops continue to weave their way into the top echelons of European government, according to reports on the web this week. Two recent examples include the Birmingham, U.K. City Council and the French Parliament.
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12 Tips for KDE Users

10/11/2007  
Relevance: 5.29
Back in the late 1990s,when the KDE and GNOME desktops were getting started, KDE had the reputation of being the most suitable choice for new GNU/Linux users, especially those migrating from Windows. Whether this generality is still true is debatable (personally, I could never see much difference between the two desktops), but KDE remains one of GNU/Linux's most popular graphical interfaces, as well as one of the most easy to learn.
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