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Positioning Linux In The Desktop Market (or Why Hendrix would have used Linux) 28. July
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| Would he have used Linux? by furibond |
At the moment some people are telling us Linux would have finally lost the battle for the desktop. For justification they claim Windows 7 is overtaking the netbook market. In this essay I will argue, Linux has not lost the desktop market and it should not position itself in the low-end PC market but in the high-end.
Linux can not lose the desktop market.
As I said before, Linux can not be beaten in the market as long there are curious programmers all over the world contributing to Free Software. For the success of Free Software it is not important how many people are using it. It is important how many people are contributing to Free Software. This argument stays true for big projects, like Gnome and KDE, and for all the small projects, like Scribes, Impressive, Gnome-Do, etc., that make Open Source Software so exciting.
Wine for Ubuntu Users 27. July
A few days ago I spotted a wine for Ubuntu users. Unfortunately the shop was closed. But I think I will come back and taste the wine. € 9,99 is not to bad. Cheers!
Linux Users Are Software Pirates 27. July
Why are Linux Users Software Pirates?
In one sentence: Linux users are software pirates, because they don't pay for their software. Period!
We all talk about the awesomeness of Linux, Ubuntu and Open-Source-Software, but who of us is willing to pay for OSS? Nobody! Everything has to be free of charge. But Linux and OSS is about freedom, not free beer! We, who want everything for free, aren't any better than those who illegally leach software and games.
Why this is a fucking problem!
Software for Linux sucks!
Tell me about one high-end graphic suite, tell me about one state of the art game, tell me about one top business software!
web2py book now free 26. July
For all who doesn't know: theweb2py is free now.
A great move by Massimo!
That's the way an file manager should look like! 26. July
Izo shows an awesome Nautilus mock-up in his blog:
I hope the Gnome team is considering his ideas. Thanks Izo!
Design By Izo | The online showcase of Ian Cylkowski
The perfect vocabulary trainer 26. July
Most of us have trouble to learn vocabulary, technical terms or facts. But why is that? Becauese we don't repeat things we learned often.
Mnemosyne helps
At that point vomes Mnemosyne to the game. Mnemosyne works like an intelligent vocabulary trainer. Who knows what to repeat when you should repeat it.
If you want to memorize something Mnemosyne is your perfect match. For example add some vovabulary. Mnemosyne will test you on that words and you will have to grade your answer. Mnemosyne will then try to estimate the next time it test you on that words.
Tipps
I use Mnemosyne to:
- learn Englisch words that I don't know, when I'm on the internet
- memorize facts from a textbook.
Download
For installation on Ubuntu and other Debian based OS klick on that button:
Faster with Ubuntu Part 4: Impressive 25. July
Today I want to show you a tool that will raise your presentation power and makes you faster getting what you want. Impressive shows presentations, saved as pdf , with tasty animations between slides. Impressive has a lot of additional functions. Two highlights are:
1. Overview Function:
The overview makes it easy to jump back to a certain slide after the presentation. You just hit the <Tab>-key and you see an overview of all the slides of the presentation. Now you choose the desired slide via mouse or arrow key and hit <Enter>.
2. Highlight Function:
If you want to highlight a certain part on a slide, you can paint a rectangle with your mouse and this part will be highlighted.
Impressive has a ton of other features that you can read about in the included demo presentation.
ghotkey - Set Hotkeys in gnome easily 25. July
This is a little Python program I wrote. It lets you set the 12 Metacity (the gnome window manager) hotkeys for any application you like. Set any command you like in the left entry field of a row and the corresponding hotkey in the right entryfield. The format for the hotkeys looks like "<Control>a" or "<Shift><Alt>F1". The parser is fairly liberal and allows lower or upper case, and also abbreviations such as "<Ctl>" and "<Ctrl>". If you set the option to the special string "disabled", then there will be no keybinding for this action.
Download ghotkey and rock Ubuntu today. Download: ghotkey-0.1.tar.gz
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