It seems this debate has been discussed over and over again, with no end in site. It often looks like the only people fighting are the Gnome guys, but its the same on both sides. I cannot tell you how many times I visit a forum and ask question, and somehow everyone starts fighting.
Read more »The Eternal Battle: Gnome 2.26 and KDE 4
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The best Linux media players
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Recently I have had a lot of people asking how to play various media files in Linux. I thought it would be smart to write about the best tools to play certain media types.
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Unnecessary Fanboys ( or, As The Pendulum Swings)
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I use MS Windows. It's true. I use it almost daily. I was originally trained using Novell Netware. I have used Apple Mac to a pretty good extent. Been known to work on a 'pure' Unix system or two as well. I use Linux every single day at home and at work. find there are pros and cons for every OS.
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Linux Will Never Ever Have The "Killer App"
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I see a lot of articles, comments and blog posts regarding Linux and how to increase it’s user base. The reasons listed to switch to Linux are invariably the same and occasionally I’ll see someone mention some “killer apps” for Linux as an incentive to change over. Well, guess what?
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ZaReason Readies Ubuntu 9.04 PCs, Servers
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After a business trip to China, the ZaReason team is back in the US preparing to offer Ubuntu 9.04 on PCs and laptops the day Canonical's latest Linux distribution launches. But that's not all: ZaReason is preparing to expand its Ubuntu server lineup. Here are the early details, based on an email interview with ZaReason CTO Earl Malmrose.
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Technical Review Calls OpenSUSE a “Beast”, Recommends Other Distros
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To sum it all up: in my opinion openSUSE is not well suited for Linux newbies. Maybe businesses, but not newbies. Not even newbie businesses… unless they’re l33t Linux superh4xx0rz. And I just personally didn’t like openSUSE — just an opinion from a Linux newbie, so it shouldn’t reflect on whether openSUSE is good or not… but Linux Mint is WAY better.
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KDE Brainstorm: 30 days, 700 ideas
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As we have had the KDE Brainstorm running for almost a month, reaching its 700th idea today. 27 pages of well discussed ideas that are voted upon by users.
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Novell Partners Promote Silverlight, Zeitgeist at Risk of Mono(polists)
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Microsoft software spreads from familiar places and enters some new places
Koenig, which works along with Novell [1, 2, 3], is promoting Silverlight right now. [all emphases in red are ours by the way]
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package management with ELPA
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"Today, the two major surviving branches on the emacs family tree are GNU Emacs, and XEmacs [...] but the one thing I remember that it still somewhat missing in GNU Emacs, is package management [...] This has changed now with
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Profile and visualize Linux boot process with Bootchart
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Bootchart is an extremely simple, extremely handsome application that allows you to profile your Linux boot process, to measure the loading times of different services, to compare kernels and distributions, to identify bottlenecks and improve the performance of your system, and then to display the results in a professional-looking chart.
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Confessions of a former Linux fanboy
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I am no longer a Linux fanboy, thus changing my philosophy on Linux and operating systems in general. I changed because I really asked a fundamental question about operating systems, “What should an desktop OS do?”
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Using OpenOffice.org as an Outliner
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Although OpenOffice.org Writer can't replace a dedicated outlining application, there are two ways to turn the word processor into a lightweight outliner.
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EU Commission: SCO’s “Contractual Relationship with MS Invoking Restraints of Competition”
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An interesting document from the past speaks about SCO and Microsoft
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12 Open Source Games that Don't Suck
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From entire operating systems to just about any sort of application under the sun, you can find open source and/or free software. This even includes games. Here are some of the best open source/free games out there today:
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Prioritizing bugs to boost Linux adoption
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What are the problems that need to be solved to boost Linux adoption? And in what order? If we get the order right, we can make more users happier faster.
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