The Release Candidate (read: almost finished) version of everybody’s favorite Ubuntu-based Linux distro is up for grabs! Most improvements are highlighted on the Linux Mint blog where you will also find download instructions. Some new features that I particularly like: The Mint menu highlights newly installed apps and has GTK themes support The Update Manager displays [...]
Listening to a review of the new Ubuntu release I could not help but notice the amount of hype Shuttleworth’s little distribution can generate. Can you feel it? The buzz is orders of magnitude greater than with any new major distro release. I’ve criticized Ubuntu in the past, but there is no denying that Ubuntu [...]
I am writing this now because Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is still in beta and we can help, by letting Canonical know what is wrong with the distribution before the stable release hits the “markets”. Open source is not a democracy, but companies use beta versions to do “field testing”, right? We all want to make [...]
Who could have, just a year ago, predicted the dramatic changes in the netbook operating system world? The release of Windows 7 and cheaper hardware launched an exciting race for users between Linux and Windows, forcing both to take it up a notch, especially in the aesthetics department. This year might be the year of [...]
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 [...]
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