In Ubuntu Linux’s new Head-Up Display (HUD ), menus come second. Instead your primary interface is the search bar. A first look at Ubuntu Linux’s Head-Up Display (Gallery) More >
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A first look at Ubuntu Linux’s Head-Up Display (Gallery)
January 26th, 2012 · No Comments
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Linux Mint releases Cinnamon, GNOME 2.x style desktop
January 25th, 2012 · No Comments
Clement Lefebvre, lead developer of Linux Mint, has announced the first “fully stable” version of its new GNOME 2.x-like “Cinnamon 1.2? fork of the GNOME 3.x desktop environment is now available for not only Mint, but for Ubuntu 11.10, Fedora 16, OpenSUSE 12.1, Arch Linux, and Gentoo. The Cinnamon interface looks and works a lot [...]
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Beyond the desktop: Ubuntu Linux’s new Head-Up Display
January 24th, 2012 · No Comments
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, has announced that Ubuntu will be adopting a radical new change to the interface that will do away with the “menu” in the Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer (WIMP) interface, which has defined the desktop for the last thirty years. Shuttleworth states, “The menu has been a [...]
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NGINX: The Faster Web Server Alternative
January 20th, 2012 · Comments Off
Picking a Web server used to be easy. If you ran a Windows shop, you used Internet Information Server (IIS); if you didn’t, you used Apache. No fuss. No muss. Now, though, you have more Web server choices, and far more decisions to make. One of the leading alternatives, the open-source NGINX, is now the [...]
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Too big to fail? Microsoft, ARM, and Windows 8.
January 16th, 2012 · Comments Off
In 1912, three of the ten biggest companies in the world were J&P Coats, Pullman, and U.S. Steel. They were giants in their day. Today, they’re either business history footnotes or shadows of their former selves. Why in the world should we think Microsoft will be any different? I wrote recently about Microsoft trying to [...]
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