February 12, 2009
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You won’t find a word about it on Dell’s sales site for the Dell Latitude E4200 laptop or the Latitude E4300, but these Windows Vista, or optionally XP, notebooks come not only with Windows but with an embedded Linux desktop … Continue reading
February 5, 2009
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In a recent story, my fellow scribe Preston Gralla wrote, “If Linux has an Achilles heel, from the point of view of a Windows user, it’s installing new software.” Now, he’s seen the error of his ways about that, but … Continue reading
January 28, 2009
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Once I got a good look at Vista, I knew desktop Linux was in for good times. Vista was, and still is, a disaster of an operating system. I was right too. When netbooks started coming out, it was Linux, … Continue reading
January 26, 2009
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Where the heck am I?” I’ve asked that question many times as I’ve gotten lost on America’s interstates. It’s not as common a question now as it used to be, thanks to GPS devices such as Garmin’s Nüvi 200W, Magellan’s … Continue reading
January 26, 2009
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I tried, I really did, to like KDE 4.2 I really didn’t like the early versions of KDE 4. I then tried KDE 4.1. I hated it. I kept getting told by people that I just didn’t get it. OK, … Continue reading
January 22, 2009
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Obama, the first true 21st century President, and his staff have arrived at the White House to find themselves stuck with 20th century Microsoft software… and they’re not happy. According to a report in The Washington Post, Obama’s staffers found … Continue reading