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IT Wire: "Let's get this straight - if we are saying that GNU/Linux is being picked in preference to Vista, then we need some statistics showing that a sizeable number of people are asking their retailers to install the free operating systems on their new PCs in preference to Vista."

The Direct Rendering Infrastructure project has long been working toward improved 3D graphics support in free operating systems.

It is a crucial part of the desktop Linux experience, but, thus far, DRI development has been done in a relatively isolated manner.

Development process changes which have the potential to make life better for Linux users are in the works, but, sometimes, that's not the only thing that matters.

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Free operating systems differ from the proprietary variety in a number of ways. One of the differences which is most evident to all users is in the provision of device drivers.

With free systems, device drivers are free software, provided with the system itself. Proprietary systems tend to provide relatively few drivers; instead, proprietary drivers are shipped with the hardware itself and installed separately.

I know some of you are using, or fooling around with free operating systems. You might, then, be interested in this article, a pretty complete guide for people who have needs similar to mine: 1) I'm a graduate student; 2) I use my computer as my media center, for music and video.

Many of my tips, though, would be useful for many other needs.

In the open source operating system world Linux gets most of the attention and many of the other free operating systems struggle to even get heard.

One of these is PCBSD, an open source OS based on the stable FreeBSD OS and today iXsystems announced the r

In the open source operating system world Linux gets most of the attention and many of the other free operating systems struggle to even get heard.

One of these is PCBSD, an open source OS based on the stable FreeBSD OS and today iXsystems announced the r