July 11, 2008
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Who knew that the biggest desktop Linux show of 2008 would turn out to be the June Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan, where the next generation of Linux desktop hardware was put on display? In fact, Linux was at the … Continue reading
July 10, 2008
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Recently, my colleague James Turner reviewed openSUSE 11 and he liked it. It’s hard to tell from some of the notes he got back-shame on you people!–but he really did. I, on the other hand, love openSUSE 11 and since … Continue reading
July 9, 2008
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Let’s say you want to write an easy-to-install program for any Linux distribution. That’s a a problem. There is no single, easy way to install software for all versions of Linux OpenSUSE thinks it has an answer: the openSUSE Build … Continue reading
June 25, 2008
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I wanted to like KDE 4. I really did. I can’t. It is the most annoying GUI (graphical user interface) I’ve used in years. And, yes, I’m including Vista’s slow as sludge Aero in my evaluation. Since openSUSE 11 offers … Continue reading
June 20, 2008
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In case there’s anyone left out there who doesn’t get that the UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) is a big deal for the Linux desktop consider that arguably the most important business Linux desktop, Novell’s SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 … Continue reading
June 3, 2008
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Novell made some, but not a lot of money from Linux in its second fiscal quarter, which ended April 30, 2008. The real news though isn’t the Linux income itself–$29-million–it’s that Novell year-over-year growth in Linux is up a healthy … Continue reading