Ubuntu

Only illegal copies are more dangerous.

OSnews tells us, that Microsoft fears Linux more that Apple. And they mean the desktop market.

There are two reasons for that:

1. According to Microsoft, Linux has a bigger market share on the desktop market than OS X. That sounds interesting, does it not.
2. Linux is an open system, that can be adopted by anybody. Especially by hardware vendors that want to produce a plattform of their own. OS X is exclusively used by Apple, which is not a Microsoft customer anyway.

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:

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.

You all know the shortcuts <Ctrl>+c, <Ctrl>+v and <Ctrl>+x to copy and paste content from the clipboard. If not you should change that immediately.
A great disadvantage of the standard clipboard is, if you want copy different text passages you have to change between the source and the target back and forth.
Parcellite creates an history of the clipboard for you.

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This is a new version of my Lastdocs plugin for gEdit. I improved the performance a bit.The Lastdocs plugin exposes a simple dialog that shows you the last opened files which can be edited with gEdit. It is inspired by Scribes a very promising editor that is in an early development stage.

What is the advantage over the recent files menu entry?

The the Lastdocs plugin is better suited to my workflow. I just press <Ctrl><Shift><o>,

In the first installation of this series I told you, that I think that the command line is the second important tool, to get you faster with your Ubuntu usage. Actually the command line is the most powerful toy you can use in the Linux world. Today I want to show a terminal emulator that has its root in the ego-shooter Doom.

I want to write a little series about how I use Ubuntu and what I got used to speed up my work with Ubuntu. This article is written for people who have just migrated to Ubuntu or Linux and as well for more experienced users. These series is based on my personal experience.

The first episode will be about Gnome-Do. Gnome-Do speeds up my work like no second application. At most the command line is as useful for me.

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