Ubuntu regularly claims to be the most popular Linux distribution. But, if so, Fedora is a competitive second. Both have thriving communities and are a major source of free and open source software innovation. But how do the distributions really compare?
Read more »Ubuntu vs. Fedora: The Latest Versions Square Off
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Fedora 13 delay fixes Linux GRUB bug
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For some users (myself included) GRUB is a critical screen where you can select which operating system you want to load. That could be a different Linux kernel on the same OS, a different Linux distribution altogether or even Windows. Usually the way GRUB works by default is the user gets to select which kernel/OS they want to load with a time delay before a default kernel OS loads.
Read more »Porting Osmos to Linux: A Post-Mortem (part 2/3)
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Welcome to the second installment of our three-part Linux post-mortem. Part 1 lay the foundations for the article and where we’re coming from. Today’s post directly addresses the question “What worked and what didn’t?”
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One of these things is not like the others
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One of the things I noticed from just about all the high-end, top-shelf, front-line distros is how similar they all look in their default forms … with one exception.
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Wine 1.2-rc1 Released
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The Wine development release 1.2-rc1 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations. This is the first release candidate for Wine 1.2. It marks the beginning of the code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 1.2 as good as possible.
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Creating diagrams in OpenOffice.org Draw and Impress
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OpenOffice.org's tools for creating diagrams are easy to ignore. For one thing, their controls are extremely small. For another, they are pitifully under-documented in the online help, which plods through the options without explaining what they are or why you want to use them.
Read more »Plasma Netbook 4.5
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So, it was pretty a long time since the last time I blogged about the KDE Plasma Netbook project... what's going on on that? you wanna videos?, you'll get videos
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Eth
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The ethtool utility provides ethernet card information and management to die for. Do you think you have a network bottleneck that’s somehow related to your NIC’s speed or other settings? If so, ethtool might be the utility that will save the day and many painful conversations.
Read more »The end of the (Linux) desktop as we know it
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What if the Linux desktop as we know it was a thing from the past ? Major players like Asus, Google, Canonical decided to create their own desktop in order to provide a Zen, very fast environment for millions of users. What are the consequences for the "legacy" windows managers (Gnome, KDE, etc.) ?
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Linux Tip: Simplifying Commands
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There are a lot of things that I do to simplify things when using Linux, and I decided that I would start writing about them. First, I’m going to describe a method I use personally to make Linux commands easier to remember.
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Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring RC Released
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This is the last development release for Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring. A few days left now before final release planned for 3rd of June. Included are Linux Kernel 2.6.33.4, KDE software compilation 4.4.3, GNOME 2.30.1, Amarok 2.3.1, Firefox 3.6.3, OpenOffice.org 3.2, and more free software.
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David Koepsell on Ethical Problems With ‘Intellectual Property’
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A new talk which criticises copyright and patents of particular types
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Life with Linux: Notes on installing Ubuntu 10.4 LTS
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Last night and this morning I installed the latest Ubuntu Linux desktop, version 10.4 LTS Lucid Lynx. LTS stands for “long term support,” though I usually update to new versions when they come out every six months.
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CentOS 5.5 USB Device Mounting Annoyance
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What do you expect the next version of your favourite distribution to be? Better or worse. For me upgrading CentOS 5.2 to 5.5 became a worse experience.
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New Features In Firewall Builder 4.0
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Firewall Builder 4.0 is a major upgrade, it adds many improvements across all components of the program.
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