Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

More on the Nokia n900 Maemo Linux Phone – First Look

And finally, we have more info on the upcoming Nokia n900 Linux-based phone. The new phone features a transition from the S60 platforms, Nokia decided to use their Maemo platform, originally used only on their Internet tablets. The new Freemantle (code name for Maemo 5) version of Maemo represents a transition to the QT toolkit, [...]

Linux Mint 7 Review, Screenshot Tour and Love

It’s been almost a year since I switched to Arch Linux, an elegant and simple Linux distribution. I had a Windows XP install on the other partition. I didn’t like this combination. Felt kind of like shoving the trash under the sofa instead of throwing it into the bin.
It was a love-hate relationship. While I [...]

The Pointlessness of Google’s Chrome OS

I was initially reluctant to write a post about Chrome OS, seeing as  Engadget and the other heavy machinery immediately posted murky “details” about Google’s new lightweight operating system, even though everyone fully knew that any screenshots and technical data were most likely fake (as a side-note, I find Gizmodo’s “deep reading” Chrome OS article [...]

A Quick Look at Two Opensource File Encryption Software

I received another guest blog article, so I’m posting this before I start. This very interesting article is by Ryan. Ryan’s other postings are at http://source.kohlerville.com where he mainly posts about problems he runs into at his work.
At my work, I noticed that I work on some documents that I felt needed to be encrypted. [...]

Why I chose GNU/Linux

This is a guest blog by Christian. You can read more of his work at his website, www.senshikaze.net
Many people will give you many reasons why GNU\Linux is better than Windows, Mac, or any other Operating System out there. I will not, I am just going to give the reasons I feel GNU/Linux is a better [...]