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It’s been a rather interesting year for Linux, with just enough ups and downs to keep us on our toes. And, being as it is the heart of December, I figured now is a good time to scour through the Linux Action Shows of the past year and find, what I consider to be, the top moments from 2008.
Have you used Vista? It is like a foreign alien or something and the stupid pop-up, “Windows needs your permission”. What is pretty funny, is yes, the Mac commercial with the security guy is an accurate depiction.
Before heading out for some Christmas cheer let’s leave a few moments to consider the future. What will 2008 bring? Many of the answers are unknown, but here’s something I’m fairly certain of.
In June 2008, Roy Schestowitz got himself in a twist over the idea—gleaned from a comment coming from someone called "microsoft-spy", and no other evidence—that Ubuntu Netbook Remix would be including codecs purchased, by Canonical, from Microsoft.
In my family, I’m the tech nerd. I get this from my father, from whom I’ve learned so much, from our early days tinkering in the basement on our office-tan 1994 Dell desktop, seeing if we could get DOOM to run.
Slackware is one of the few distros still in existence from Linux’s early days, right along with Debian, SuSE, and Red Hat. Because of this decision to keep things as UNIX-like as possible, Slackware has a reputation for being somewhat difficult to install and confusing to use.
You’re a Linux user and you want to convert videos from DVD to iPhone or convert video files in flash format to stream online, what are you choices? A few years back you were stuck with command line only utilities like FFmpeg, which works great but doesn’t offer the ease of use found in GUI applications.
The upcoming Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring release will boast the easiest ever support for synchronizing with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices in any distribution. The adventurous can already try out the support in the current 2008 Spring pre-release repositories, by following the instructions here.
Linux vendor Red Hat's first Linux desktop product aimed at small businesses will be available to system builders in Australia at the beginning of 2008, according to a senior executive at the company.