Well, I did it once, after years of Linux (registered with the Linux Counter on August 26, 1996). Then I went back to… Ubuntu Jaunty, then I switched to CentOS 5.3 and have built my own extra repository Odiecolon.repo, only to end in Xubuntu Karmic, now being on Ubuntu Karmic.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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lozz
2 years 25 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago
Pauvre petit Beranger
Here's Beranger, back in fine form, whining that the idiots at Ubuntu can't get his M$ applications to work with Wine.
He even admits that he's paid for some of the Windows applications he has in his possession(???).
Didn't Beranger storm off to Windows 7 in a huff, swearing never to return to "Linux" a while back, or something similar?
If Beranger really thinks he needs XP, then he's probably right.
We'll just have to try to muddle along without him, somehow.
beranger
2 years 24 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago
Petit? Pourquoi petit?
No, Ubuntards can't even get all the GTK+ applications work with their concoction!
When Ubuntu 9.10 was in in Beta, I've reported a GTK-induced bug in Mousepad and Leafpad -- it was fixed. Now, I'm sure that gnome-mastermind fails to behave also because of a newer GTK+.
Linuxeros, stop talking about Microsoft's bugs as long as the COMPONENTS OF THE LINUX *DESKTOP* are CONSTANTLY SCREWED!
As for the Windows apps I've paid for, you know, one still has to pay for *some* work, it's not everything like in communism!
Those applications include, but are not limited to:
-- Rybka 3 Aquarium (excellent chess program and database; works under WINE, but slower)
-- Druide Antidote RX (OK, it's multiplatform, it works with KDE3 too)
-- some CD-based dictionaries (which work under WINE, suboptimally)
OK, mea culpa to have returned to a Linux DESKTOP for a while.
The major flaw of Windows 7 is its price, not bugs, nor system requirements. I have friends who have bought a boxed Windows 7 and gained their peace of mind with Windows 7 -- truly. Because it works.