Category Archives: Linux

Broadcom Sees the Linuxy Light at Last

By doris | Published: January 14, 2011

Full Story at TechNewsworld.com Good things come to those who wait, as the saying goes, and recently the Linux community had occasion to observe a vivid illustration close to home. Specifically, after years of ill repute as one of the primary wireless chipmakers that didn’t support Linux, Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) on Monday showed the community [...]

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The Next New Year of Linux on the Desktop: 2011?

By doris | Published: December 17, 2010

Full Story at Technewsworld.com Those of us who have been part of the FOSS community for more than, oh, say 10 minutes, are no doubt already familiar with the recurring “Year of Linux on the Desktop” debate. It’s a topic that comes up again and again in the Linux blogosphere, typically fueled by some new [...]

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Has Linux Reached the End of the Line?

By doris | Published: December 6, 2010

Full Story at Technewsworld.com Fans of FOSS are already all too accustomed to the many barbs and insults Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) tends to sling at any free competitor, but one of the latest was so mystifying as to leave many Linux bloggers scratching their heads. To be precise,”Нужно иметь в виду, что Linux не является [...]

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12 Ubuntu Derivatives You Should Consider

By doris | Published: November 22, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com It’s no secret that Ubuntu 10.10, or Maverick Meerkat, is one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions of all time for business and home users. What many people don’t realize, however, is that there are several other Linux distributions out there that are also based on Ubuntu and offer many of [...]

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Could the Windows Comparison Game Hurt Linux?

By doris | Published: November 19, 2010

Full Story at Technewsworld.com It’s a rare thing indeed to hear Linux discussed without some comparison to Windows. That may not be surprising, given Redmond’s effective monopoly in the operating system arena — but is it harming Linux? That was the question being mulled over here in the Linux blogosphere in recent days, even as [...]

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Linux Video Editing Apps: The Simple, the Slick and the Stumbly

By doris | Published: November 18, 2010

Full Story at Techneworld.com It used to be that only hard-core film buffs carried video recording equipment on vacations. Unless your job required working with film, film editing software was not on most computer users’ must-have list of tools. Maybe that is why until recently, few really useful film editing apps existed for the Linux [...]

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Maybe Linux Should Cost Something

By doris | Published: October 9, 2010

Full Story at TechNewsworld.com Discussions, theses, theories and memes abound around Linux’s inability to gain traction in the desktop marketplace. Some think the Linux Desktop is too hard to learn (it’s not). Others say Linux Desktop is deficient (it’s not). Linux elite (or 1337) say Linux wasn’t really meant for the general users anyway (not [...]

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Linux Wi-Fi Gets Easier with New Broadcom Driver

By doris | Published: September 11, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com Wireless chip maker Broadcom on Thursday announced good news for Linux users in the form of a fully open wireless driver that’s compatible with the operating system. Wireless networking has long been a sticking point for Linux users with netbooks and laptops including Broadcom chipsets, which have traditionally used proprietary drivers [...]

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The numbers don’t lie: Mobile devices overtaking PCs

By doris | Published: August 13, 2010

Full Story at tech.Fortune.cnn.com Here it comes: Mobile will soon outsell PCs. Tim Bray last week attempted to conceptualize the market change that is happening in computing in a post called the Great Game. In a nutshell, what we are seeing in smartphones is bigger than anything that has come before it. Much bigger than [...]

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Is Linux Too Much for One Mere Mortal to Handle?

By doris | Published: July 26, 2010

Full Story at TechNewsworld.com Well it may be a wild ride these days for those on Apple’s (Nasdaq: AAPL) side of the fence — gotta love those bumpers! — but for those of us here in the Linux blogosphere, things have been remarkably calm, cool and collected. Much, in fact, like the Father of Linux [...]

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Linux Doesn’t Cost Anything – But Maybe It Should

By doris | Published: July 10, 2010

Full Story at TechNewsworld.com Discussions, theses, theories and memes abound around Linux’s inability to gain traction in the desktop marketplace. Some think the Linux Desktop is too hard to learn (it’s not). Others say Linux Desktop is deficient (it’s not). Linux elite (or 1337) say Linux wasn’t really meant for the general users anyway (not [...]

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Ubuntu: Harder to Use, or Just Harder to Spell?

By doris | Published: June 27, 2010

Full Story at TechNewsworld.com At first glance, it’s easy to be taken in by Jeff Hoogland’s recent post entitled “Why Ubuntu Is Harder Than Windows.” “I use Ubuntu on all my personal computers and I even recommend it to friends,” Hoogland began. “I am starting to think maybe I shouldn’t though, because it is obvious: [...]

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