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Student research report: Desktop Linux in Government —
by David B. Rankin (Apr. 25, 2006) —
Foreword: This research report by a third-year graduate student examines the growing use of desktop Linux among governments in the U.S. and globally. Drawing on published research and comments from industry analysts, the author hypothesizes that desktop Linux may be nearing a tipping point within government settings, ...
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Curmudgeon deems SUSE 10.1 "really cool and solid" —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Apr. 19, 2006) —
This is one really, really cool and solid distribution. OK, before I go any further I should point out that SUSE 10.1 (code name: Agama Lizard) isn't actually released yet. I've been kicking the tires of the first SUSE 10.1 "Release Candidate."...
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A Linux desktop fairy tale —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Mar. 21, 2006) —
Once upon a time, long long ago, everyone who was anyone in the Kingdom of Linux used SlackWare. Then, along came Red Hat, which many people in the kingdom thought was neater and had a great package manager....
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Top 10 reasons Linux pwns your OS —
by Scott M. Morris (Mar. 16, 2006) —
You've probably heard the talk and seen the articles from Linux enthusiasts on how virtually any Linux distro can run rings around Windows. To help clarify things, Scott M. Morris, the editor of Novell's CoolSolutions website, has complied all the key reasons in one handy, bookmarkable article....
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The other big Linux office suites —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (March 13, 2006) —
If you're new to Linux, you may be excused for thinking that there are only two note-worthy Linux office suites: OpenOffice.org and its commercial brother, StarOffice. Nothing could be further from the truth. By my count, there are three other significant Linux office suites....
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Old OEMs, new Linux tricks? —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Mar. 13, 2006) —
I've been thinking a lot, lately, about PC manufacturers and desktop Linux. I've long believed that for desktop Linux to really get going, it needs big-time vendor support, with OEMs like Dell, HP, and Gateway putting Linux PCs on the shelves of Best Buy, Circuit City, and CompUSA. ...
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OpenOffice is ten years behind MS Office? That's just fine! —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Mar. 6, 2006) —
In an interview with Australian online technology newspaper IT Wire, Alan Yates, general manager of business strategy for Microsoft's information worker group, said that OpenOffice.org is about where MS-Office was 10 years ago. That is to say, Microsoft seems to think OpenOffice.org is only good for single-desktop users....
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WordPerfect for Linux lives on —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Jan. 30, 2006) —
Corel Corp. may have given up on bringing WordPerfect to Linux, but that doesn't mean Linux users have to give up on running WordPerfect on Linux....
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Why we need Windows apps ported on Linux —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Jan. 27, 2006) —
Novell has had one of those amazingly simple ideas that make you ask: "Why didn't I think of that?" The Linux vendor is using its Cool Solutions community-relations website to conduct an online public survey to determine which Windows-only applications people want to run on their Linux systems....
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Getting scanners to work with Linux —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Jan. 26, 2006) —
I recently received a note from a disgruntled Linux user. He was having an awful time trying to get his unidentified USB Canon scanner to work with his copy of Xandros Desktop 3. He's not the only one stuck in that position....
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Choosing a desktop Linux distro —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Jan. 24, 2006) —
Probably everyone who reads DesktopLinux.com -- and certainly yours truly -- encounters the same question over and over again: "What's the best Linux desktop distribution?" Now, while some people will swear up and down that Slackware or Fedora or even Puppy, for that matter, ...
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How one reviewer approaches the art of reviewing —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Jan. 6, 2006) —
I've been receiving a fair amount of e-mail from people who are sure that I don't know Linux, but their notes are really showing me that they don't know reviewing. I don't hold that against them. Few people know how reviews really work....
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Reviewer finds Ubuntu good, but not good enough —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Jan. 3, 2006) —
 I can understand why many people love Ubuntu and its KDE-interfaced brother, Kubuntu. However, neither one is a perfect fit for me.
First, the good news: although they go by different names, there's really no fundamental difference between the Ubuntu brothers. ...
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Hunting for the perfect Linux Media Center —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Dec. 29, 2005) —
Over at NewsForge, Jay Lyman does a good job of explaining why HP's Media Hub, a Linux media system, came to nothing. He also talks with some analysts and people in the business about why Linux media centers haven't appeared.
That's all well and good, but Lyman doesn't ...
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The Great Drupal Web blogging project, Part 1 —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Dec. 28, 2005) —
I may be good at some things, but I'm lousy at making Web sites. Oh, I know my way around HTML, and I'm decent at Macromedia's Dreamweaver, but just because I know how to paint, doesn't make me Van Gogh. ...
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Using a liveCD as your Linux Desktop —
A guest column by Frank Richards (Dec. 22, 2005) —
Most of the "Desktop" Linux liveCD distributions (distros) are meant to to be used for trying out or demoing Linux before installing them to your hard drive. Popular distros like Ubuntu, Mepis, and PCLinuxOS are good examples and in my mind are some of the best offerings. I've been there ...
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A sneaky Linux present for a Windows-using friend —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Dec. 20, 2005) —
Want a really, really sneaky way to get your Windows loyalist friends to give Linux a try? Boy, does Chris Ward, an IBM software engineer, have an idea for you!
In an IBM DeveloperWorks article, Ward describes how to put together a Linux LiveCD.
What's that, you say? ...
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Taking KDE 3.5 for a ride with SUSE —
by Steven J. Vaughan Nichols (Dec. 19, 2005) —
 If you're like a lot of KDE users, you probably want to give the latest and greatest version of the popular Linux desktop environment a try. However, if you're like a lot of newer users, you're also not quite sure how to go about ...
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Damn, I like Damn Small Linux —
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Dec. 5, 2005) —
Some Linux distributions are more just clever tricks than anything useful.
Take, oh I don't know, the Free60 Project, which means to bring Linux to the Xbox 360 game console. Interesting to do? Sure, for those with a hackerish turn of mind. Useful if, like 99.9 percent of ...
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Hacking OpenSUSE —
by Jem Matzan (Dec. 2, 2005) —
Foreword: There's more to SUSE Linux than simply installing it and going to work. To get the most from the operating system, you'll probably want to do some post-install fine tuning. This article by Jem Matzan explains how to: add download sources to YaST; install the Mozilla Thunderbird email client; ...
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Installing SUSE Linux 10.0 on a laptop —
by Steven J. Rosen (Dec. 1, 2005) —
Foreword: Thinking about installing the latest SUSE Linux? If so, be sure read this excellent, comprehensive article about installing SUSE Linux 10.0 on a laptop. Author Steven J. Rosen, a software developer for two decades, has primarily used Linux on his home machines for four years, including Mandrake/Mandriva and Fedora ...
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