As WorksWithU reported last week and Canonical announced the following day, the company has released a new set of support services targeted at Windows and Mac OS X expatriates migrating to Ubuntu.

The open source version of Chrome is far from perfect; the recently enabled plugins which permit the usage of Flash and so on are regularly disabled and/or non-functional, the rendering engine still has its occasional issues, and too many poorly designed browser-sniffing sites give it a hard time. But it’s just so damned fast.

Four years ago, I wrote an article about OpenOffice.org writer called "Fielding Questions, Part 2 - Cross References and User-Defined Fields." I regularly receive mail about it, but these days I have to preface each reply by explaining that the article is obsolete. Repeating the explanation gets old quickly, so I decided that an update is necessary.

I heard about Linux Mint numerous times and even tried out a few releases. The major “selling” point of Mint is its main focus: to provide a ready-to-go, user-friendly desktop.

Applications that use the GTK+2 library to provide their user interface have some very powerful user interface migration functionality at their disposal. With just a few API calls, an application can migrate its entire user interface to a different screen on a multi display host, or even to another X Server entirely.

Since KDE 4.3 has been released, various reviews have appeared on the web. The DOT had a look at some of them. Polishlinux once again offers an extensive review with many screenshots showing what is new in KDE 4.3. According to Korneliusz Jarz?bski, "Finally the day has come, when the curiosity about the KDE4.3 development branch took the better of me.".

Sun's Glynn Foster has announced today on the OpenSolaris Forums that they will be discontinuing the Solaris Express Community Edition (SXCE) builds.

This is the first in a series of posts on just what the title says: The command line. The main point will be this: Stop worrying about the command line.