We have grown up with Linux over the years and seen the best of operating systems come and go. The best of Microsoft’s and Apple’s have given us in-depth entertainment options to choose from and it has certainly been able to live up to their name.
But what about Open Source Operating Systems? Who reigns supreme? Without a doubt, we give it to Ubuntu.
Via Blogote.
Some 2.8 million Americans now work permanently from home offices. An estimated 38 million Americans, or 37 percent of the total U.S. workforce, telecommute at least once a month. Couple this with the significant number of mobile professionals (such as those working in sales and support)—and the ever-increasing legions of knowledge workers accessing sensitive corporate information on mobile devices—and the numbers become staggering.
Via BusinessWeek.
The philosophy behind open source software – giving every access to the source code so anyone can adapt the program – is spreading to the real world. It’s being applied to art as well as the business of art.
Via VOA.
Tags: open source, small artists
From Parliament Hill, Mike Savage delivers this message: Do not come to work.
He laughs when the contradiction is pointed out to him. He’s not at his home in Nova Scotia and he’s working. Still, the Liberal human resources critic is trying to create some buzz around a campaign by Workopolis, the online job board, to encourage Canadians to work from home.
Via The Globe and Mail.