I believe both have a role to play in helping an end user make the most of their system. I don't however, believe a person's inability to use the CLI actually makes them dumb. Neither do I believe that you'd be diminishing your status by using point and click to get things done for the sheer reason that you're a CLI guru.
Read more »An interesting look at the Linux CLI-GUI debate once more
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#61 Jazz, Jazz Standards, and Open Source
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But that only leads us to a different mystery: what did all the software programmers do before there was software to program?...He gave me a pitying look, and stated what to him was obvious: "They were car mechanics and jazz musicians."
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Uget My best Download Manager
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I have been using GNU/Linux for two years so far, and I'm using Ubuntu (GNOME). Over this period, I have tested a lot of download manager applications; unfortunately, I can't find the one that suits best for me, because what I have in mind was a program which more or less is simple, lightweight and practical.
Read more »Exploring New Nepomuk Features in Mandriva Linux 2010
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You have probably heard of Nepomuk, the semantic desktop technology we've been shipping for a while as part of the KDE Platform. However, so far, you may not have noticed it really doing very much useful for you. So what is this thing called Nepomuk, what can it do for us now and what will it bring us in the future?
Read more »Open source virtual desktop protocol from Red Hat
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Red Hat has open sourced a virtual desktop protocol, called the Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment (SPICE), in the hope of fostering its wider adoption.
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Google DNS: the giant puts one finger on your pulse
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From web search to mail to operating systems to applications in the cloud, Google is slowly making its way into nearly every aspect of public life online.
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IBM: Manage Data Like Cash
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IBM today released a report tracking the effective use of business analytics at successful businesses. The report, "Breaking away with business analytics and optimization," said that all businesses can differentiate their performance by analyzing data better and by delivering insight to decision makers at all levels of an organization.
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NVIDIA Anti-Aliasing, Linux & Lenvik
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Recently via email we were asked to run a comparison of the different anti-aliasing and image rendering options between the ATI/AMD and NVIDIA Linux drivers and hardware. Well, we have now run a few quantitative and qualitative tests at different anti-aliasing levels under Linux.
Read more »French military contributes to Thunderbird
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A new email client unveiled by Mozilla this week contains code from an unusual source -- the French military, which decided the open source product was more secure than Microsoft's rival Outlook.
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Windows and Red Hat pricing on Amazon EC2 vs. on-premise
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After my previous post, "Cloud to boost proprietary software use?," Tim Bray questioned whether the pricing comparison of "WebSphere/SUSE vs. JBoss/RHEL on EC2 was a transient anomaly." Let me try again with Windows versus Linux.
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Sugar software environment gets sweeter with version 2
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Sugar Labs has announced the availability of Sugar on a Stick version 2, a major update of its Linux-based operating system for education that was originally developed for the One Laptop Per Child project. The new version introduces an ebook reader and a number of other important features.
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Hold that (trojan) horse!
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The current news making a big splash around the Linux community is of a trojan that has been created and deployed on the Gnome-look website. For a start this trojan can not automatically install itself. It is not a virus and relies on social engineering to be effective.
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Free Software Fanatics
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Over at Desktop Linux Reviews, I recently wrote a review of Mandriva Linux 2010. I certainly never intended to insult anybody with my choice of words, so I apologized in the comments section. But, in a way, I'm very glad that this issue came up as I think it's one worth exploring.
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Linux Professional Institute Expands Training Partner Program to include 44 nations
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The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that it had expanded its training partner program to include 44 nations--up from 33 a year ago.
Read more »Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 Screen Shots
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Welcome to Lucid Lynx Alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. New features: updated packages, Linux kernel 2.6.32, KDE 4.4 beta 1, HAL removal Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Lucid development cycle. Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 Screen Shots at SEO Expert Consultants Inc.
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