Tag Archives: linux
Suse 11.2
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, … Continue reading
Life before Microsoft Office
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 … Continue reading
Operating system compatibility
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 … Continue reading
Ubuntu Hardy Heron
I’m using Linux again for the first time in about nine months. The release of Ubuntu Hardy Heron caught my attention and I decided to give it a go. I recently revisited Puppy and Sidux without satisfaction. The main problem … Continue reading
Sidux Linux
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 … Continue reading
Cross-platform applications
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 … Continue reading
PCLinuxOS
I went for a couple of months where I hardly used Linux at all. I had Suse on my laptop and Puppy, but for various reasons I stuck mainly with Windows XP for that period. I think I had less … Continue reading
