I often see the sentiment expressed that desktop Linux is “too hard” for the average PC user. These arguments seem to completely overlook the fact that an average PC user will never install his own operating system.
Read more »Desktop Linux: An Average User Success Story
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Time for a Synaptic makeover?
Synaptic is great. I much prefer it to the Ubuntu Software Center, but then maybe I’m just a geek? With all the new innovations such as add-apt, there is some work to be done to keep its cool.
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Making Sense of Open Source Diversity
Open source needs an app store. No, I am not crazy. Well, not about this, anyway.
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MicroCenter: Searching for Ubuntu Compatible PCs
I was helping one of my students find a new laptop that would work well with Ubuntu. The sales staff did kindly let us test Ubuntu Karmic CDs in computers, to see how they worked. I got to see some of the problems in up and coming hardware and what we still have to work on.
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Trial – A mobilephobics view of Android
Mobilephobia, can that be a word? It certainly described my view of mobile phones in the past. This article is in regards to my Andoid and HTC experience which has completely changed my view of mobile phones (and indeed mobile surfing et al).
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Lucid Dreams and Death by Techno
My love for new technology was part of my downfall today. You see, because I so love technology, I might occasionally be a little too trusting of it and perhaps a little too casual in how I deal with it. Consider this foray into Lucid Lynx a cautionary tale.
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Tony Wasserman's thoughts on joining the OSI Board
As a new member of the Board (as of 1 April), I thought that it would be useful to explain why I wanted to join the OSI Board and what I hope to achieve during my term.
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Document Freedom Day 2010 in The Netherlands
Document Freedom Day is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Open Document Formats and Open Standards in general. Every year on the last wednesday in March, we celebrate his day.
Read more »PCLinuxOS delivers where others failed
One of the reasons why I said PCLinuxOS is "A real distro-hopper-stopper is its ability to auto detect your devices. I have read elsewhere that mostly, only branded tvturner cards can work with linux. To my surprise, this is not the case with tvtime, the native tvturner software in PCLinuxOS and I guess it is available out-of-the-box on every versions of PCLOS (excellent job guys!).
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Emulation of windows sucks on Linux
I have been following the WINE project for quite a few years. These guys are doing an incredibly hard job in trying to keep up with a moving target and basically re-writing an operating system to run natively on top of another operating system.
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“Boycott Novell” and Expanded Scope
Suggestions needed for a name that better reflects this site's new scope
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A community of FOSS lawyers?
There is a fairly common perception among FOSS hackers that there is no community of FOSS lawyers. Scratch the surface, though, and it turns out that- despite our handicaps- the FOSS legal community is there and growing.
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So what's the verdict on Boycott Novell?
Ordinarily I would be as thrilled as any other blogger to be linked to from far and wide across the web, but what Boycott Novell is linking to here has little if anything to do with their stated mandate.
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An Easy and Inexpensive Quad-Core System for Debian or Ubuntu GNU/Linux
My son's hand-me-down motherboard recently gave up the ghost, and I decided that was a good excuse for an upgrade. Shopping around, I found that multi-core CPUs were finally in my price range, so I decided to build him a quad-core system.
Read more »Interview with Aleix Pol of KDE Edu and KDevelop
Hello again to all the KDE people. We are here with a third interview. Last time we had Tobias König, a KDE PIM developer. Today it’s the turn of Aleix Pol, a contributor to KDE EDU and KDevelop. As usual, there is also the original interview in Italian if you prefer to read that.
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