Wondering what other distro to check out? Well, there’s the upcoming second beta of Mandriva 2008 this spring. :D Mandriva as a distro is quite different from Ubuntu but I’ve used it earlier (when it was still Mandrake) and it has a nifty set of default packages included in it.
Here are the major […]
Everytime I hear or read someone’s happy review of the Asus EEE with the bundled Linux, I can’t help but smile. :) And I also say to myself that these people are the reason why manufacturers musn’t limit themselves to bundling their computers with Microsoft Windows Vista or XP.
As Richard Ingram says on […]
I just read this cool guide on how to integrate VirtualBox’s Windows XP desktop with Ubuntu. Of course, you need VirtualBox first and they also gave a link to the article with the guide if you want to try it out.
You need to be familiar with adding a user to a group, changing permissions […]
Limo - commonly known as the shortened form of the word limousine isn’t just about cars. After all, there’s LiMo - a foundation that is focused on Linux on the mobile. They want to make mobile Linux accessible to mass market phones and not just limit it to the top mobile phones in […]
There will be a hacking contest in Vancouver next month and the three operating systems will go against each other to prove that they ‘pwn’ the others. This will be during the CanSecWest Vancouver 2008 security conference.
Every geek will have his/her own agenda. And of course, you all know which OS I am […]
Been seciously typing using that layout and it has been tough. I wish I could type faster but can’t because of the getting used to it part. I still switch to QWERTY sometimes but I know I must wean myself away from it so I could give my wrists the rest that it needs.
One […]
If you’re thinking on how to spread your Linux love to friends who are staunch Windows users, you could try using KDE on Windows. There’s a project which allows KDE4 to run on Windows. Sounds cool huh? Apps which are packaged include the educational apps as well as tools like Umbrello and […]
Some call it Single Awareness Day, but February 14 is typically known as Valentine’s Day. If you’re not sure what gift you could give to your friends, it’s Linux! ;) Hehehe. Well, I am not kidding. This is especially for your friends who are cramming for their papers in school or those who […]
For a while there, we had some server problems and you might have been having a hard time accessing this blog or some of the blog entries you wanted to read. But thanks to b5’s team of sys ads, we’re back~! Did you miss us? Well, I sure missed reading the comments you […]
… they’d rather let things stay that way.
That seems to be the gist of the Wired article as to what Linus Torvalds thinks are reasons why people are not shifting to Linux.
But according to Torvalds the reason Linux hasn’t taken off is that most people are happy with the way things are. “If you act […]
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