Development - Microsoft http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal/taxonomy/term/2/0 en Link - KDE 4 Windows http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal/node/196 <p><em>Feb 27 2009: updates</em><br /><em>May 22 2009: update on Kubuntu 9.04 with KDE 4.2</em> <p>In addition to the plethora of great Linux applications running on Windows via GTK, QT and Java, there is now a fairly stable version of <a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KDE_on_Windows">KDE4 for Windows</a>. It&#39;s still not entirely stable and requires some effort to get going, but at this rate my old Windows 2000 system may make it to the year 3000 !!! </p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal/node/196">read more</a></p> Microsoft Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:36:36 -0700 billb 196 at http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal andLinux - A New Level of Linux/Windows Interoperability ? http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal/node/167 <p>An interesting development in the evolution of Linux, almost a new species of Linux as it were. </p> <p>andLind is a native port of the Linux kernel and Ubuntu to run as an application under Windows 2000. The two versions support either XFCE or KDE. With a few restrcitions. </p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal/node/167">read more</a></p> Linux Microsoft Wed, 07 May 2008 12:01:04 -0600 billb 167 at http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal Link - Novell CEO: "The number one thing we need on Linux is applications" http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal/node/109 <p>During a speech to a Linux audience on the necessity of &quot;standardizing&quot; Linux, Novell President and CEO Ron Hovsepian continues the thought expressed above by saying, </p> <blockquote><p> &quot;We need the software vendors to have their footprints on Linux. On Windows, application availability is their biggest advantage.&quot;</p></blockquote> <p> He seems to be talking about the Microsoft model of standardization, that is by being the one and only application.</p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal/node/109">read more</a></p> Linux Microsoft Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:26:20 -0600 billb 109 at http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal Is Suse Dead ? http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal/node/90 <p> <p>Anyone interested in the Linux operating system has almost certainly heard about the Microsoft &quot;License Agreement&quot; with Novell to exempt Suse Linux from unstated patent infringements. If not, the high level executive summary runs like this.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal/node/90">read more</a></p> Linux Microsoft Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:37:57 -0600 billb 90 at http://billbreitmayer.com/drupal