Comments for Practical Technology http://practical-tech.com for practical people. Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:51:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Say hello to Canonical’s new Linux desktop: Ubuntu 12.04 beta review by craigparker http://practical-tech.com/infrastructure/say-hello-to-canonicals-new-linux-desktop-ubuntu-12-04-beta-review/5058/comment-page-1/#comment-1724 craigparker Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:51:53 +0000 http://practical-tech.com/?p=5058#comment-1724 I was looking to break my wife in to the new types of interface (we were running Lucid, but I'd installed Fedora16 on my laptop in December) and have had no trouble with this Ubuntu 12.04 beta since I threw it on our main box a few weeks ago. Unity is still weird (as is GNOME3 on my laptop) but we're getting used to it. We were not able to function without a taskbar, and I had to install Tint... :( I'm still unhappy with how windows are grouped; it drove me nuts in XP too. I was looking to break my wife in to the new types of interface (we were running Lucid, but I’d installed Fedora16 on my laptop in December) and have had no trouble with this Ubuntu 12.04 beta since I threw it on our main box a few weeks ago. Unity is still weird (as is GNOME3 on my laptop) but we’re getting used to it.

We were not able to function without a taskbar, and I had to install Tint… :( I’m still unhappy with how windows are grouped; it drove me nuts in XP too.

]]> Comment on The CIO and Patent Lawsuits by Patents Roundup: Oracle Lessens Android Demands, Red Hat Suggests Cure to Trolls, Debian Adopts New Patent Policy | Techrights http://practical-tech.com/business/the-cio-and-patent-lawsuits-2/4927/comment-page-1/#comment-1721 Patents Roundup: Oracle Lessens Android Demands, Red Hat Suggests Cure to Trolls, Debian Adopts New Patent Policy | Techrights Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:18:24 +0000 http://practical-tech.com/?p=4927#comment-1721 [...] so it they don’t choose Red Hat, then they are left in a different legal position. SJVN has this new article advising CIOs in case of patent lawsuits: The recent Bilski Supreme Court decision has made it [...] [...] so it they don’t choose Red Hat, then they are left in a different legal position. SJVN has this new article advising CIOs in case of patent lawsuits: The recent Bilski Supreme Court decision has made it [...]

]]> Comment on The CIO’s Nightmare: Intellectual Property Lawsuits by Reactive Lawsuits Brewing Against Microsoft and Apple | Techrights http://practical-tech.com/business/the-cio%e2%80%99s-nightmare-intellectual-property-lawsuits/4766/comment-page-1/#comment-1719 Reactive Lawsuits Brewing Against Microsoft and Apple | Techrights Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:08:31 +0000 http://practical-tech.com/?p=4766#comment-1719 [...] was also coverage in other languages. SJVN writes about this status quo where competition becomes more about lawsuits and less about production. The corporate press [...] [...] was also coverage in other languages. SJVN writes about this status quo where competition becomes more about lawsuits and less about production. The corporate press [...]

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