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Archive for the ‘The Free World.’ Category

March 21st, 2008

Share your ideas on Ubuntu Brainstorm

Ubuntu users have an outlet for their ideas on Ubuntu Brainstorm. If you’ve been thinking about a feature that would help you and fellow new Linux users, you could pitch in your ideas and even receive comments and votes on it.
The guidelines for submitting an idea:
Just register, click ‘Submit idea’ and enter a title […]

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March 13th, 2008

1-2-3: Say Cheese!

It’s a common expression when people are taking pictures and maybe you would probably end up saying it a lot with the new release of Gnome. There’s an application called “Cheese” which basically lets you play around with images taken by your webcam. (Who says it’s just the MacBook Pro owners who have […]

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March 12th, 2008

Brother printer drivers for Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Yay! There will be packages for Brother printers in Ubuntu Hardy Heron. This is great news for us who have Brother printers at home and at work. :D We have them in the repositories. Awesome :D And Brother made sure it is an open licence, so that means developers could work […]

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March 12th, 2008

Wal-Mart pulls out the gOS bundled Everex computers from retail shops

I read on ZDNet that the manufacturer should worry because it affects the image of Linux. The quote that disturbed me was:
“No, it’ll be remembered as a Linux failure, and that’s a shame.”
Hmmm. I think that it doesn’t really have to come to that. Linux wouldn’t be a failure per se because it’s […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

March 1st, 2008

PCQuest gives a list of useful free and open source apps

Wondering what free and open source apps to use? PCQuest gives a useful list, categorizing the applications you might need for your day to day computing or running your business. If you’ve enjoyed using Linux and the various applications that you got via your package manager, you might be interested in a whole […]

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February 16th, 2008

Mandriva 2008 beta 2 slated for spring!

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 […]

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February 14th, 2008

What do you think when you hear “limo”?

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 […]

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February 5th, 2008

When people are happy with the status quo…

… 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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February 3rd, 2008

But what about vi(m)?

So, yeah, thanks to Timelady I checked out the xkcd comic she was talking about. Some people would say that Emacs users are too fanatical about the text editor which has anything and everything but the kitchen sink. Though I prefer Emacs over other text editors it doesn’t mean that vi wouldn’t get […]

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January 31st, 2008

Linux advocacy doodles

Sometimes you can’t help but doodle on your notebook while you’re waiting for someone or maybe you doodle on an index card which you use as a bookmark. Why not doodle something that would advocate Linux? :D
I was doodling on one of index cards and it was a penguin so I noted something to […]

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