One of the biggest plus points to Linux is that it is free. Truly, $0, nillium free. The only costs involved are those of downloading, and perhaps burning onto a CD or DVD. Compare that to the hundreds of dollars you dish out for a copy of Windows. The premium beef (the Ultimate editions) cost [...]
Q: How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None, they just define darkness as an industry standard.
Q: How many Apple engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: 13, 1 to do the screwing and a dozen lawyer-types to prepare for the recall.
Q: How many Linux developers does it take to [...]
Finally.
Today, I completed my download of openSUSE 11.0 (after my recent Vista failure) and set about installing it. It was a DVD of the latest ISO from openSUSE. My machine is the same Acer Ferrari 5000 (2.0 GHz X2 AMD Turion 64, 2GB RAM, ATI X1600 Mobility Radeon).
I had said earlier that I was really [...]
There have been plenty of reviews deriding KDE 4 (the Linux Desktop Environment). I decided to see if it were really the case of KDE 4 being a bad nut, or just the distributions that shipped it.
My emphasis is on the desktop pliability of distributions, with a minimal use of the command line. So if [...]
One of my old interests has recently gotten very strong. I have been trawling the wikis of different distros, forums and the Distrowatch.com comments page. I hope to be able to post reviews of different things in my own emphasised line – desktop usage. Hopefully, I’ll be able to give a thorough review of Kubuntu [...]
