An article on Netbook Review compares the battery life of numerous popular netbooks, e.g. the Asus Eee, MSI Wind, Dell Mini (Inspiron 9 and 12). What I found quite impressive was the long battery life of the MSI Wind (almost 7 hours!). On the other hand Dell’s mini laptops proved to be a great disappointment, [...]
Image by 176 via Flickr I got some very interesting comments on my post about Linux projects that need more attention, so I decided to feature a few of the readers’ recommendations. They have mentioned very interesting and useful applications, some of which I have never heard of. A warning though: this is a very [...]
I’ve been playing with this idea for a while now and wanted to share it with you guys. While I think that Konqueror is a great browser there is sadly no real KDE 4 support for my favorite browser, Firefox, except the Nokia beta Qt4 port or the theme, so I’ve been thinking: lots of [...]
Posted on November 29, 2008, 11:39, by Greg, under
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Even though I am a strong advocate of learning as much as you can about using the command line, I admit I like my GUI a lot (and Compiz of course ). The CLI can be really useful for repairing your system or just doing some task that takes far more clicks in the graphical [...]
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Some people will argue with me in that these GNU/Linux distributions are as advanced as you want them to be. Well, of course Linux is all about choice. I took the user base perspective though and what I have for you today is a few distros which do not hide the manual (or for people [...]