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W. McDonald Buck, retired CTO of World Bank, believes we need to take a more honest and frank look at the Cost Analyses it will take to put Linux on the corporate desktop. In Part I of Corporate Desktop Linux - The Hard Truth he begins with one of the most common misconceptions... that a business can buy a computer without Windows and save money in the transaction.

OSDir.com Weekly Screenshot Tours for Feb 3, 2005. Over the past week at OSDir we had a look at some cool stuff including some international distros. The list included Firefox 1.0 Themes, SimplyMEPIS 3.3 Test 1, Berry Linux 0.52 (Japanese), IndLinux 1.0 Beta (Indian), Catix 1.1 Alpha 2, (Catalan) and BeatrIX Linux 2005.1.

OSDir.com Weekly Screenshot Tours for Jan 26, 2005. What a fun week we had at OSDir doing screenshots of your favorite apps and distros.

OSDir.com Weekly Screenshot Tours for Jan 19, 2005. Over the past week at OSDir we had the chance to install some interesting distributions, including Luit Linux 0.4, Knoppel 0.5, FAMELIX 1.0, and Freeduc-Sup 1.1.

With KDE 3.4 beta just announced a few days ago spokesman George Staikos has written about the new RSS/RDF/Atom Aggregator included in the new relase, aKregator, in his column KDE: From the Source. "In contrast to a news ticker style of RSS application, you don't need to constantly look at aKregator to see if there is new news. I have found that with news tickers such as the applet in KDE, I was constantly staring at the news feeds as they scrolled by and re-reading the same headlines over and over. With aKregator, I find I never look at old news as headlines that are read are conveniently grayed out and pushed down the list." This is a much better way to track news in KDE than the somewhat outdated news ticker.

OSDir.com Weekly Screenshot Tours for Jan 12, 2005. Over the winter break and past week at OSDir.com we had the following screenshot tours on our agenda: Mandrakelinux 10.2 Cooker, CentOS 3.4 Beta, ProMEPIS 2005 Beta 2, MoLinux 1.0, Vidalinux Desktop OS 1.1 Download, Ubuntu Linux 4.10 (French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Mandarin), SAM Xmas Fun 2004, Games Knoppix 3.7, SuliX 2.0, ASP Linux 10, Sun Java Desktop System 2, and OpenOffice.org 1.9.69 Base. Yeah, we've been busy!

In this month's mocking toast To Evil! Danny O'Brien laments the holiday habit of trying to hide one's evilness from Father Christmas, but finds those evil proprietary software people can't help being who they are. '...let's see whose been evil and not so evil down there in the chained world of proprietary software. That sorry place, where slipshod users cannot hide their sin, distracted as they are by demons only the unfree suffer: the draconian wiles of restrictively-licensed media companies, the constant hammer of pop-up ads and malware, and - most dread of all - closed-source software with hard-coded integer limits, running on AIX.'

RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser to Keynote at San Diego Desktop Summit in February

Last week OSDir.com surpassed their 100th Linux and open source screenshot tour, which has become an invaluable resource to the open source community.

Ubuntu Linux has expanded their series of international screenshots. In addition to Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French, they've now added Mandarin, Arabic, and Russian screenshots to their screenshots page.

Mandrakelinux has just released an ISO of their 10.2 Cooker Snapshot. This is the pre-beta of the upcoming Mandrakelinux 10.2.

Have an early look at what's coming next in this leading distribution, in OSDir.com's Screenshot tour of the Mandrakelinux 10.2 Cooker Snapshot.

Ubuntu Linux has posted a series of international screenshots of their 4.10 LiveCD (thanks to OSDir.com).

This includes Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French screenshots. Additional languages are soon to be added.

This week at OSDir.com we had the following screenshot tours on our agenda Vine Linux 3.1, Overclockix 3.7, Novell Linux Desktop 9, FreeSBIE 1.1, and PCLinuxOS Preview 8. Check it out!

A complete listing of our Linux and Open Source screenshot tours is here: shots.osdir.com.

Novell Linux Desktop 9 is a desktop operating system and office-productivity environment that enables businesses to use Linux and open source with confidence. - novell.com

After a long struggle with this distro and VMWare, we finally got Novell Linux Desktop 9 installed at OSDir, and grabbed some screenshots, running both KDE and GNOME.

During the past week at OSDir.com we kept our hands full, doing screenshot tours of Caos CentOS 3.3, OpenOffice.org 1.1 Draw, BeatrIX Linux November 04, Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official, and UHU-Linux Live 2.2. Be sure to head over and have a look.

A complete listing of our Linux and Open Source screenshot tours is here: shots.osdir.com.

The latest major release of Mandrakelinux, 10.1 Official, is now available for public download! Empower yourself with all the new and stable 10.1 features.

Mandrakelinux 10.1 comes with a great selection of software which we have covered at OSDir in our wide selection of screenshots of this distribution. Our screeshots include Installation, Desktop, Taskbars, Menus, and Configuration on the default KDE. We've also grabbed some shots of the GNOME, WindowMaker, and IceWM desktops for your viewing pleasure.

During the past week at OSDir.com we did some cool screenshot tours, including Hikarunix 0.2, Debian-Installer RC 2, Lineox Enterprise Linux 4.0 Beta, and Thunderbird 1.0. Check it out!

A complete listing of our Linux and Open Source screenshot tours is here.

Thunderbird 1.0 is officially out and we've got the goods! Head over to OSDir.com to have a look at this much anticipated release in our Thunderbird 1.0 Screenshot tour. Thunderbird 1.0 is an open source application not only for Linux but Mac and Windows users as well. We're mixing it up a bit by showing this application running on Windows XP.

In the past week at OSDir our screenshot tour list included OpenOffice.org 1.1 Impress, Hakin9 Live 2.3.D, BIG LINUX 2.0 Beta 3, and MAX: MAdrid_LinuX 1.2. Head over and check it out. A complete listing of our Linux and Open Source screenshot tours is here.