Saw this on digg today. You can try out KDE 4 snapshots using a specially built live CD for that purpose. If you don’t feel like compiling it from source, this is a good way to see the latest and greatest KDE has to offer.
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APC Mag’s Ashton Mills comes out with a critical look at the latest Ubuntu release and discusses some of the things it gets wrong. One of my pet peeves, display settings, seems to be one of the areas Ubuntu is not so great at dealing with still:
I have to come down on this hard here — widescreen monitors are ubiquitous now, and after all these years of X development (not to mention official driver support from Nvidia and ATI, though the latter are lacklustre) why does it not ‘just work’ under Linux? Five years ago this could be forgiveable, today there is no logical reason why the resolution of the monitor shouldn’t work out of the box — and if not automatic, then at least to have the option in the settings dialog. We all like to show off how Vista’s snazzy effects were already done by Compiz and Beryl before Vista was released — but at least it gets the resolution right first time.
I have to agree completely here. Of all the distributions I have tried, only Sabayon Linux was able to detect my monitor’s native resolution and configure it and my Nvidia card perfectly.
It is good to see a critical review of Ubuntu 7.04’s flaws as all the reviews I’ve seen thus far have been quite glowing. I’m looking forward to trying it out myself this week.
In any case, read the entire review here. You’ll see that it’s not all bad, however.
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Hi and welcome back to TriedIT. This post is a brief summary of how and why I have looked to Linux as my computer operating system of choice. I don’t claim to know Linux inside and out. But I have played with the system for over 10 years now and more convinced that ever that it has been time well spent.
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The One Laptop Per Child computer is now $175 up from $100 and will also be coming to the U.S. officially. They also plan to support Windows. This will seriously change how OLPC was going to help Linux spread throughout the world. Considering that Microsoft plans to offer Windows and Office for $3, I can’t see many people choosing Linux over that.
In any case, check out the article.
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One of the funniest things I’ve seen on the Internet in awhile is The Real Mouse Mouse. It is a fully functional mouse, made out of a formerly fully functional mouse. My girlfriend found it to be pretty disgusting. I think it’s awesome. Someone was bound to do it eventually. I wonder how you right-click though.
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A new release of one of the oldest window managers in existence has come out, AfterStep 2.2.5. Check out their announcement for the download link.
Also, Wine 0.9.36 has been released. Check out Wine’s 0.9.36 announcement for more details and a download link as well.
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OzHardware takes a look at the slimmed down 8000-series line of Nvidia cards. While the 8500 and 8600 in no way compared to the performance of the 8800 cards, their price is less than half that of the currently top of the line Nvidias. Take a look a the OzHardware review for the benchmarks and conclusion of whether these cards are the best bang for the buck.
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Apologies once again for the delay in reviews and new content to the site. Things are still quite busy for me lately, but I’m doing my best to get new reviews up. I have added a good friend as a contributor to this site, Steve Thate. I have known him for many years and he, like myself, enjoys testing out new Linux distributions and seeing what they are about. Expect to start seeing some postings by him in the very near future once he gets acquainted with things.
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Like srlinuxx over at tuxmachines, I was contacted by a guy who was wondering why I hadn’t done a review of Arch Linux 0.8 yet. Well, the simple reason is because I hadn’t gotten around to it! Finally, I have. Here’s my review of the 64-bit version of Arch Linux 0.8.
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Ubuntu has a lot going for it these days. It has just released a new version and has a great community following. It also gets a huge following on digg and other sites. In any case one of its drawbacks is that it isn’t the snappiest Linux distribution. Check out this list of guides for speeding up your Ubuntu system. There is some very useful information contained in these guides.
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Ubuntu 7.04 was released on April 19. I have not had a chance yet to review it myself. Unfortunately I have been busy lately, but a new review should be out soon. In any case, I have taken the liberty of linking to a number of other reviews that have already come out about this popular distribution.
Based on these reviews, it looks like Ubuntu has made some really great strides. I want to see how the latest compares to Sabayon.
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