Ubuntu Look

Here are one good critycal review og gNewSense and GNU project.

I am posting a Critique of gNewSense from technical viewpoint. I am strictly in agreement with RMS on the concept of Free/OpenSource Software. I was happy when after a long time, finally, a 100% Libre distro named gNewSense was released. For this post I have kept Free Software issues aside and talk purely in terms of technical achievements.

Did FSF not want to support a better distro (technically) ? I found 3 places of information that I think describe the decades of experience of GNU/Linux in as few words as possible:

Read more at original source

At first the iMac was a cool product, all shiny, all aluminum. The construction was the selling point; I also liked OSX Tiger. I went all-in too. I bought Photoshop CS3 and a dozen other paid applications like Transmit, Textmate, etc. Everything went well for a while. I tried Quicksilver and found it marginally useful at best (experts disagree). Fortunately Quicksilver is free so I didn’t loose anything by trying it out. Unfortunately, the other apps I bought were not free and I found them to be only marginally useful as well.

Everything I was doing with Transmit I could do with gFTP. Everything I was doing with Textmate I could do with SciTE. I wasted around a hundred dollars on software that had equally good open source alternatives.

Read more at OpenSwitch

In the latest Ubuntu weekly newsletter the Ubuntu folks announced the release of the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course. The modular course should take two days to complete all 10 of the lessons offered, but it is possible to cover topics and lessons independently of each other, learning whatever is of interest.

Coming in two versions, both downloadable as PDFs, there is a student guide and an instructor guide. The instructor guide comes with instructor notes and answers to the exercise questions together while the student guide has no instructor notes and the answers are provided separately.

Read more at Tectonic

Mauricio Freitas writes, that in New Zeland sells Acer laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled. From Blog:

They are some late 2004 Acer Aspire 4315-100508Ci models, based on an Intel Celeron M 540 1.86GHz Processor, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 80GB 5400 RPM SATA HDD, 14.1″ Widescreen Display, DVD+CDRW Combo Drive, Intel Media Accelerator X3100 Graphics Card and wireless LAN.

The laptops are running Ubuntu 7.10.

Read more at  Mauricio Freitas Blog

KDE 4.0 is now out and there is allready first Kubuntu based LiveCD (http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.0.php). New KDE 4.0 with Kubuntu is amaising, but lets look now back to history with some screenshots. I search all kind of news from DistroWatch , Google and Internet Archive.

First Kubuntu 5.04 was released  8 April 2005.

Here is the original announcement, what is right now availible at Internet Archive. This was first Kubuntu.

Features of Kubuntu 5.04:

• KDE 3.4
• HAL support for removable devices
• Ubuntu-powered out of the box hardware configuration
• OpenOffice.org office suite
• Gwenview image viewer
• amaroK music player
• K3b CD and DVD burner
• Konversation IRC chat
• Kaffeine video player
• Also available as a live CD

Its hard to find now some screenshost of Kubuntu 5.04, but I found some from golem.de website. Here is the main desktop of Kubuntu 5.05 LiveCD:

The next Kubuntu 5.10 was released 10 October 2005, codenamed ‘Breezy Badger’. This release comes with the very latest KDE 3.4.3 and includes the new Guidance configuration tools. From original announcement: Read the rest of this entry »