Random thoughts and observations
After several months of not using Linux I recently installed Suse 11.2 on my home PC. Rather than download the file and chew up a month’s worth of data I bought the DVD on eBay for about $10 including postage, and obtained a bonus copy of Ubuntu as well. The great thing about Linux is [...]
It’s hard to believe there was once a world in which Microsoft wasn’t the dominant developer of software for word processing and spreadsheets. I actually don’t use MS Office much these days, but its presence is ubiquitous. I like Atlantis for quick documents, saved to RTF format and OpenOffice is my main choice in Linux. [...]
This isn’t meant to be a geek blog, but I want to vent a little here. I contacted the manager of a commercial website yesterday to point out the site didn’t render properly in Linux. It’s the first site I have ever come across which does not view sensibly in Linux. The response: “Thanks for [...]
I was always a fan of Kanotix. It’s a Debian-based Linux distribution which forked from the popular live distro Knoppix to offer a solid desktop system. Somewhere along the line, I messed up an upgrade and moved away. By the time I revisited Kanotix it seemed to have lost impetus. Indeed, the last news items [...]
I was just looking at the 15 program icons on my Linux desktop and noticed that 12 of them are cross-platform applications which also operate in Windows. The three Linux-only programs are Digikam (photo organiser), Bluefish (web editor) and Kontact (organiser/email). The 12 cross-platform applications are: Firefox (web browser) OpenOffice (office suite) The Gimp (image [...]
