Cussing and Praising Kubuntu

I took the plunge and decided to upgrade my two Gutsy boxes to Hardy. These are real working PCs, not experimental test boxes, so I was hoping for a straightforward dist-upgrade that preserved all of my settings and applications. Doing a complete wipe-n-reinstall on real working PCs is for Windows luzers; real geeks dist-upgrade forever.
I [...]

Vespa: My Pink Dell Mini9 w/ Ubuntu

I’ve wanted a pink laptop for ages, this Christmas a few of my friends got together and pitched in to buy me the pink Dell Mini9 I’d been drooling over for months. Wow! Thanks again guys, you rock.
First off, here are the specs. Which makes it twice as powerful with many more features than my [...]

Linux4one Ubuntu for the Acer Aspire One

The Acer Aspire One netbook comes with the Linplus (customized Linux) Operating System pre-installed, which isn’t that good. Linux4one – a modified Ubuntu – offers a good alternative for Linplus.
Read more at EeePC

Ubuntu vs Windows

While i focus on web development in my articles this post is not related to web development in anyway, however i feel the need to post it here, after reading a bunch of articles comparing Windows and Ubuntu. For me it seemed that, authors writing this articles never used Ubuntu, they just installed it because [...]

The Xubuntu Difference

There are many different operating systems based on Linux: Debian, SuSE, Gentoo, Red Hat, and Mandriva are examples. Xubuntu is yet another contender in what is already a highly competitive world. So what makes Xubuntu different?
Xubuntu is part of the Ubuntu family of Linux distributions, and is based on Debian, one of the most widely [...]

Time For Ubuntu To Move To Stability

This morning I went to find the name of a piece of software through Add/Remove programs, only to find that there was only one category (”All”) and there were no applications listed at all. It took me less than 10 minutes to find and implement the solution, but I shouldn’t have to deal with this [...]

Mint 6 Review: TechieMoe

Introduction
TechieMoe reviews a lot of distributions and he’s consistently reviewed Mint since the release of version 3.1, Celena. He was the first to review Linux Mint 6 Felicia. Although he usually only scratches the surface (which I understand considering the number of reviews he publishes) he knows how to be harsh in his criticism and…
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Mythbuntu 9.04 Alpha 2 now available

Welcome to the Mythbuntu Christmas Special! Mythbuntu Jaunty Jackalope alpha 2 has now been released.  With this release, we are providing mirroring on sponsored mirrors only.
It is very important to note that this release is not compatible with Mythbuntu 7.10 or any other MythTV 0.20.2 based distribution.
Changes from Mythbuntu 9.04 alpha 1:
Not Much
* Alternate disks [...]

mintCast – Episode 3

Charles Olsen and the mintCast team published the third episode of their podcast. Happy listening everyone!
In Episode 3:
Note-taking software under Linux
Linux Mint 6 Felicia released
Rothgar’s overview of Linux Mint 6
OpenSuse 11.1 released
Economist website recommends Linux for netbooks
Linux is holding our kids back…
Read more at Linux Mint Blog

Thoughts on Ubuntu 8.10.

Recently I finally got enough hardware together to build a new computer that will be used to test all the latest games and windows software on. When I built the new machine that meant I had my old main machine to do something with.
So I took my old main machine and thought I would stick [...]