Life is seldom simple so we must make sense of the twist and turns
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In January ‘09 I wrote of installing Linux Fedora 10 on my newly acquired Asus Aspire One Netbook. Today I upgraded the Aspire One to the newly released Fedora 11.
Actually it turned out not to really be an upgrade. I at first did choose to let Fedora 11 upgrade the Fedora 10 installation but [...]
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In January this year I posted of installing Fedora 10 Linux on an Acer Aspire One Netbook computer.
I’ve been living with this combination for a month and thought I would share a few longer term impressions.
Pros
1. It’s still a joy to be able to carry this little computer about easily with no more bulk then [...]
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This past holiday season Netbook computers were a leading seller for Amazon, and thanks to my dear wife I was a lucky recipients of one of those sales.
I received a Sapphire Blue Acer Aspire One 8.9-inch (1.6 GHz Atom Proc, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HD, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) Netbook.
One of the most [...]
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The more I use my Nikon D700 camera the more I like it. However, according to Mike Johnson, Sony has made impressive inroads into the D-SLR world.
I’ve already been partially paid back from my first loan at Kiva. It feels good. I got turned on to Kiva by friends. It’s a site/organization which allows individuals [...]
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It’s one thing to talk about open-source software like Linux becoming easy to use and a joy to look at, but it’s quite another to actually fund the development of such improvements. Mark Shuttleworth has talked a lot recently about desktop Linux becoming as easy and beautiful as Mac OS X. Now he’s ready to [...]
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On 22 July at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention there was a call made by Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical-Ubuntu Linux, to improve the presentation layer of Linux to exceed that of Apple’s OS X:
“The great task in front of us over the next two years is to lift the experience of the Linux desktop [...]
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Confession: I haven’t always been a Mac user and I still sometimes stray from the path.
I’ve an older Intel P4 PC (one I built years ago) that I keep around for various purposes. For one, I believe Linux has promise and occasionally I like to install some of the newer releases and [...]
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It’s not turning out to be a good public relations week for Microsoft, as the following links indicate:
Gartner Says Vista Will Collapse. And That’s Why The Yahoo Deal Must Happen – TechCrunch
Microsoft Designed Vista’s UAC to “Annoy Users” – DailyTech
Gartner Analysts Predicting Doom and Gloom for Microsoft Windows – eWeek
Windows at risk of “collapsing,” say [...]
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The Asus Eee Xandros Linux Laptops have been a big hit due to their affordability and hack-ability, but can this laptop success transfer to a desktop machine and long term is this a positive influence for Linux on the desktop?
… On one hand Linux is getting a lot of exposure to many who could not afford a more capable and costly PC but is it presenting Linux as a cheap, not in the inexpensive sense, disposable OS?
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GNOME now includes mail notification in the Evolution mail client, the ability to fill in PDF forms in the Evince document viewer, improved file management, a revamped Appearance control panel applet, a revised help system, and many other enhancements.
…System files for the Live images are now under LiveOS/ , and a new README file has been provided as a short introduction to the live image.
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Ryan Paul at Ars Technica has published a detailed review of Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”.
Final thoughts from the review included:
Linux is now an appealing choice for many users who would never have considered making the switch a few years ago. Distributions have improved at an astounding pace, and Ubuntu leads the pack on the desktop. [...]
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SoFoBoMo '09
