Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 2 Impressions
Couple of days ago, Mozilla released the second Beta for the third version of their immensely popular browser, Firefox. Now generally I stay away from beta versions of software, but when Subbu told me it’simproved a lot over the first beta, I just rushed to download it & try it out.
Let’s have a look [...]
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A Look At Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
Ubuntu Gutsy has been receiving a huge amount of hype and fan fare recently, and I’ve been following Gutsy closely, from Ubuntu Fridge’s 10 Rocking Features in 10 Days to fellow bloggers and Linux users posts on Gutsy. Naturally after their Feisty launch, expectations were high(from my side). Now I’m not Ubuntu’s biggest fan(I’m a [...]
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KDE 4, KDE 4.0?
KDE Developer beineri writes in blog about the general confusion among people between KDE 4 and KDE 4.0. To quote him,
The last feature release of KDE is just over a year old, is well maintained and gains selected features about every two to three months. Still people long for the first release starting with the [...]
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My Laptop Chronicles: Installing openSUSE 10.3 on my Dell Inspiron 1520
When I got my Dell Inspiron, the first thing that I wanted to do was install openSUSE 10.3 on it. After all openSUSE has been serving me well all these years! Because of time restrictions and office workload being too much, I couln’t do it. So when the weekend arrived, I decided to install it!
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My Laptop Chronicles: It’s here!
Yup! Finally my laptop is here, delivered to my office at OMR, Chennai! After all those hassles(read this and this post to know more!) I received it 12 days after my order was registered(ie, the day the amount was realized). In case you’re wondering, my Laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1520, featuring an Intel Core2Duo [...]
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Torvalds on where Linux is heading in 2008
In an interview with the IT news magazine, InformationWeek Linus Torvalds speaks on where Linux is heading in 2008. He says that he is very gung-ho about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of interest in the area.
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10 Reasons why Command Line is better than GUI
“Penguin Pete” gives 10 reasons as to why the command line is far better than GUI. And yeah, I do agree with him. Something as simple as installing as application is a lot easier! I mean c’mon tell me, which is better, telling someone to type “sudo apt-get install xxx” or “Click on the Button, Click [...]
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Must Try Linux Distro’s
This for all those guys who don’t know which linux to try. These are the ones that had us awed at their usability and features.
Aditya’s Picks:
Ubuntu
Xubuntu
Puppy
My Picks:
openSuSE
Kubuntu
DreamLinux
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