There's no way around it: the longer you run a Windows installation, the slower and less responsive it gets. On my year-old dual-boot laptop, I wait longer and longer for Windows to boot, and longer and longer for programs to do what I ask. Meanwhile, my Ubuntu Linux installation, on exactly the same hardware, installed almost as long ago, is as snappy as the day I set it up— faster, in fact, as I've tweaked it and geeked it.
Linux Professional Association on Kenya, a group of local software developers, has embarked on a sensitisation programme among government bodies with the aim of wooing them to use Free Open Source Software (FOSS).
Linux has been 64-bit for eight years, and Apple's operating system for five. But compatibility problems have dogged the 64-bit versions of Windows since its introduction in Windows XP.
Last week our annual Linux Graphics Survey ended. There were over 14,000 submissions this year to the eleven questions we asked pertaining to X.Org, Linux desktop usage, and graphics hardware. In this article are all of the results from this year's survey.
I’ve implemented a sort of Mac OS X ’sheets’ animation in the simple-animations plugin. It is designed to work with dialog boxes so that they appear to ‘roll out’ of the top of the window. The animation is there, I just haven’t got parent window detection to work with dialogs yet and haven’t put window placement code in. Once that is done it should look (somewhat) realistic without violating the hidden patent I probably don’t know about.
Wow we are so late this time -- probably some Debian blood is still flowing through my veins -- but this is really worth it, 2.25.3 is here and there is goodness overflowing.
This is my first post on these forums. It's going to be a happy one. For happy is the state I ended up in tonight. Because, you see, I made "The Switch". Bye Windows, hello Linux-world. Ubuntu. I am amazed. I am astonished. I feel like a total idiot for not having done this transfer before.
No doubt, Ubuntu will spill over from college IT departments out to student populations as more and more Netbooks (preloaded with Ubuntu) arrive on college campuses.
Palm will reportedly introduce new smartphones and a new Linux-based operating system for mobile devices, code-named Nova, next year.
Garmin's first cellphone, the nüvifone, has yet to see the light of the day. But the personal navigation devices maker is already working on its second handset--a Google Android mobile operating system-powered device.
OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE: Tux Paint is a computer drawing program that is great for kids. You can give open-source software for adults, such as Linux operating system or Gimp, an image-manipulation program.
