Posts tagged with "linux"

Like a warm ocean current, the tides of contempt are slowly eroding my enjoyment of Ubuntu. I've been using it full time for eleven months now but I feel I have to write down my grievances before I find myself jumping ship.

Posted by Oli 4 hours ago in linux. Continue reading »

Linux is often criticised for its over-enthusiastic community trying to convert everybody and their grandma. Today I saw another post asking why we should care if more people use it. In short: yes but I've got plenty of reasons to back this up...

Posted by Oli 4 months ago in linux. Continue reading »

Rather than listing 10 genuine reasons, I'm taking these points from an idiot fanboy. I use Linux as my desktop operating system but these reasons are just amazingly flawed.

Posted by Oli 4 months ago in linux. Continue reading »

By default the make command won't use more than one process to compile things. With a tiny bit of tweaking you can slice off precious minutes and save yourself a noticeable amount of time.

Posted by Oli 4 months ago in linux. Continue reading »

Well that's a bit of an overstatement. Nokia are buying the makers of the Qt library, by far the biggest component of KDE and KDE applications. Make no mistake, this is big news for both Nokia and Linux.

Posted by Oli 6 months ago in nokia, kde, qt & linux. Continue reading »

Another year, another time to ask the question: "Will next year be Linux's year?" So lets look at 2007 and what desktop Linux has managed to achieve and at what point this leaves us for 2008.

Posted by Oli 7 months ago in linux. Continue reading »

If you've read anything by me in the past month, you've probably seen that I moved to Linux. I'm extremely happy here but I still find myself loading Windows in VMWare for several tasks.

Posted by Oli 8 months ago in linux. Continue reading »

I once heard that good things come to those that wait and today Linux users who've been waiting for Skype to push out a video-chatting client finally got their wish, albeit in beta form. Download link included,

Posted by Oli 9 months ago in linux & skype. Continue reading »

Some time ago I wrote that Linux needed "golden applications" to succeed on the desktop. I was wrong because I've seen the light that is Amarok. Cross-platform FOSS will cause platform freedom.

Posted by Oli 9 months ago in linux. Continue reading »

The Gutsy-fever is approaching tangibility and unlike most other bouts of mass-enthusiasm, I'm actually enjoying this.

Posted by Oli 9 months ago in ubuntu & linux. Continue reading »

While there's definitely progress in the latest release of Ubuntu, there are still problems: some limited to Ubuntu, some ingrained in gnome and some endemic to Linux as a whole.

Posted by Oli 9 months ago in linux & ubuntu. Continue reading »

It's that time of year again: "Oli attempts to migrate to Linux"! This time (using Gutsy) I've got to say that it was considerable more successful that previous times and damn, it's just too pretty for words...

Posted by Oli 10 months ago in linux & ubuntu. Continue reading »

In short: Caitlyn Martin said last month that she was unable to review Puppy Linux. She claims today that a commenter in a Distrowatch thread issued her a death threat... Nasty stuff but I just can't see the threat angle of it. "Threat" included in the post.

Posted by Oli 10 months ago in linux & distrowatch. Continue reading »

Distrowatch's H.P.D. statistics are banded about by numerous factions trying to make the point that their distribution is the best. But do the numbers actually equate popularity and why do the fanboys care so much anyway?

Posted by Oli 10 months ago in linux & distrowatch. Continue reading »

Oli reviews the final of PCLinuxOS 2007 to see if all the commotion about this quickly rising newcomer is really worth the weight people are pushing it with.

Posted by Oli 14 months ago in linux & review. Continue reading »

Ubuntu Studio is a variant of Ubuntu that concentrates on three creative tasks: video editing, audio recording and graphics. Oli takes it for a test-drive.

Posted by Oli 15 months ago in linux & review. Continue reading »

After five years of abstaining from getting down-and-dirty with Gentoo, Oli revisits the distribution that was responsible for many a migraine all those years ago... But does it cut the mustard when compared to other modern distributions?

Posted by Oli 15 months ago in linux & review. Continue reading »

Another Linux review and in my sights this time, Mandrivaclub.nl's MCNLive 'Delft' Release Candidate 1.

Posted by Oli 15 months ago in linux & review. Continue reading »

Oli gives the PUD GNU/Linux project a run for its money over two computers and finds that the real let down is the XFCE window manager that, although fast, is nowhere near as usable as it needs to be to compete in the Linux desktop race.

Posted by Oli 15 months ago in linux & review. Continue reading »

To be successful in the short term, Linux needs to gain user from closed systems by having its own brand of unique applications.

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in linux, oss & gpl. Continue reading »

I've just been informed of this absolutely massive security hole in Ubuntu that allows any user to grab any passwords that were set during setup because they're stored in a log file for later helping users if they bump into problems. The

Posted by Oli 29 months ago in ubuntu, linux & security. Continue reading »