With tons of work and lots of help from the two fantastic lists to which I'm posting this message, the IS department at Brooklyn Museum is a few days away from rolling out our first Linux (Fedora Core 3) desktops to staff. I'm incredibly excited about this--thanks to everyone who's helped out. We're starting with the Education department. Knowing the educators, they are going to want to read up on Linux and related topics, especially OpenOffice.org, in advance of meeting with me to talk about the switch and how important it is to us both financially and philosophically (we have a community-minded mission, so the OSS model fits very well; in fact we have released some of our own software). Does anyone have recommendations for good, recent, online articles about Linux (especially Fedora Core), OOo, the GIMP, etc.? In particular, I'm interested in articles for non-technical people about 1) the open-source development model; 2) not-too-partisan descriptions of how and why open-source licensing benefits users, especially businesses; 3) Honest comparisons of usability and features between OSS and its proprietary/commercial competitors; 4) Honest descriptive articles about the recent growth of OSS in business and government (we are a privately-run, but partly civically-funded institution). But I'm also interested in *any* good articles you've seen lately: if you can think of some, let me know! Thanks, Matt Morgan Manager of Information Systems Brooklyn Museum
