I may have to write how I did this at some point. I use Archlinux x86_64, with a custom kernel from Zen. It's got most of the stuff I need built in, and all other crap is thrown out.
Finally, there's Amarok, which easily gets my vote as best music player. Not only does Amarok sport a boatload of excellent features, it also has an incredibly intuitive and easy-to-use interface. The main player's interface tabs provide a ton of information about your current artist and song including lyrics, related artists, suggested songs, Wikipedia's artist info, and the band's other albums. For those that prefer DIY management of your library, the tree-style collection view is a welcome addition, and provides an extremely easy way.
With all the hoopla that has been surrounding KDE 4, I’d almost forget there’s another major piece of software working on a milestone release. Okay, maybe not as major as KDE, but Amarok is arguably the best and most popular media player on the linux desktop.
The truth is, there are quite a few games for Linux, but the problem is - not that many people are aware of them or willing to take the plunge. This is becoming less and less of any issue every day, as the games are moving from console nightmares and WINE hacks toward stable packages, some already being shipped via repositories of the larger distros.
He went on his way and I plugged in the usb cable. Getting ready to go into the menu to configure the thing a notification thinger pops up and told me the printer was ready. It didn't even ask me a question. NOT A THING.
I put this article from Law.com's Legal Technology page, "Commentary: The Penguin Doesn't Fly, Avoid Linux" in News Picks because I found it hilarious, in the Rob Enderle kind of way. But then I thought I'd look up the author on Google, and lo and behold, I find he said something that appears to be not exactly true. I'm not talking about the FUD stuff.
1. “I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
2. “Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).”
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Those are the words Mahatma Gandi used to describe the states of resistance to non-violent movements for change. {00:47}
This afternoon, I’d like to introduce you to one of those movements: the free software movement. The free in free software stands for freedom; it’s the same free as in the terms free speech or free market. {01:00}
I’m pleased to tell you that the enemies of free software are very clearly fighting us, placing us only one step away from victory according to Gandi. But the enemies of free software have also ignored us and they’ve laughed us, and I want to start my speech by telling you about how we overcame those challenges. {01:20}
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Comments
Le
2008-08-10 05:34:35
funny....
http://darksidefoss.blogspot.com/2008/08/open-source-war-is-over-microsoft.html
Tech
2008-08-10 05:35:07
Roy Schestowitz
2008-08-10 07:18:50