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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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Microsoft has announced that it will be making available an early test version of its next Windows OS, “Windows 7,” early next year (2009). According to Microsoft, Windows 7 will do away with most of the nagging problems that have plagued users with Vista, while maintaining Vista’s good features.
I don’t know if this early test [...]
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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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Then you will want to spend a few moments to listen to an excellent podcast, “Inkscape Part 1,” by my blogging friend Richard Querin of Renaissance Man. The podcast is a guest spot on LinuxReality and this may be your best chance to hear Richard before he starts charging for speaking engagements. 
Richard does some amazingly creative things with Inkscape and is also co-creater/contributer of the Screencasters site that has many excellent tutorials on using Inkscape.
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SoFoBoMo '09
