New Linux User

November 7th, 2007

Nifty mplayer

I know that I recently just said I use vlc for almost anything and everything. After the poll, however, I started using Audacious for music files and I’ve switched back to mplayer for watching videos. Why? Here are certain reasons why I’ve switched back to mplayer:

Subtitles. - I’ve been watching a lot [...]

By Clair -- 2 comments

November 6th, 2007

Bitnami - find the web app stacks you need

Thanks to one email from Pieter Temmerman, I learned about bitnami.org. It’s a site featuring various web app stacks which you could install without much pain. As they say, it would take only a few clicks. Neat huh? :D
The site gives only a brief description of the app stack so if you want [...]

By Clair -- 0 comments

November 5th, 2007

Why do we have hardware troubles with Linux?

Yeah, I know. I just started a new poll on our troubles with using Linux. Honestly, I’ve been thinking about why I am actually having troubles with my laptop and Ubuntu, why we had hardware problems in my former workplace, etc. Here’s a list I came up with:

Some hardware vendors simply don’t have [...]

By Clair -- 3 comments

November 2nd, 2007

New Poll: What difficulties do you experience with Linux?

Check out the sidebar. I made a new poll wondering what difficulties you are experiencing with Linux. It would be a good place to start talking about what needs to improve in how we use Linux, as well as what developers could continue in improving.
Personally, it’s wifi that I’ve been bothered with. But [...]

By Clair -- 5 comments

November 2nd, 2007

Linux distro poll results

PCLinuxOS
247% of all votes

Ubuntu
14441% of all votes

Mint
72% of all votes

SUSE
257% of all votes

Fedora Core
298% of all votes

Kubuntu1
3510% of all votes

Slackware1
82% of all votes

Xandros1
41% of all votes

Mandriva1
93% of all votes

Arch1
31% of all votes

Mandriva1
41% of all votes

Debian1
3410% of all votes

uhu1
10% of all votes

CentOS1
51% of all votes

Pardus1
31% of all votes

RedHat1
41% of all votes

gentoo1
41% of all votes

Xubuntu1
41% of all [...]

By Clair -- 5 comments

November 1st, 2007

The Halloween Documents

Happy Halloween!
And it’s better late than never to greet you guys a happy halloween. Anyhow, here’s a piece of Linux trivia: in the last week of October 1998, memos were circulated in Microsoft and they talked about Linux and open source software as threats to their business. As Eric S. Raymond points out [...]

By Clair -- 0 comments