LXer Weekly Roundup for 31-Oct-2010

LXer Article In this week’s Roundup we have; What makes Linux compelling to use? Ubuntu moves away from GNOME, Learning Linux the hardcore way with Linux from scratch, Microsoft is a dying consumer brand, Why Unity in Ubuntu is good for the future and Ronald trip’s response to why Unity is clouding up the desktop. [...]

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LXer Weekly Roundup for 17-Oct-2010

LXer Article In the Roundup this week we have news of IBM deciding to back Oracle’s OpenJDK instead of Harmony, Phoronix releases the 2010 Linux graphics survey results, 5 mistakes Linux newcomers make and lastly John E. Dunn gets the crazy idea to ditch Windows for Ubuntu. Enjoy! IBM backs Oracle against Apache and Google’s [...]

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LXer Weekly Roundup for 20-Jun-2010

LXer Article In this week’s Roundup we have a battle between KDE3 and KDE4,Linux versus the world: The unwinnable war?, Dell removes “Ubuntu is safer than Microsoft® Windows® ” statement from website and today marks my three year anniversary as E-i-C for LXer. You know, I think my grammar has gotten a little better. KDE [...]

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LXer Weekly Roundup for 11-Apr-2010

LXer Article This week we have Jim Zemlin and SJVN weighing in on IBM’s supposed breaking of their own pledge to open source many of their patents. Are HP and Dell giving up on netbooks? What will come after Linux? Jack Wallen sees the future, a review of Tiny Me and much more in this [...]

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Windows: Choice But No Choice

LXer Article In the area of window managers Linux users are completely and totally spoiled rotten. We constantly debate the merits of one desktop environment/window manager over another. We argue over what programs are better than others, what versions of those programs we like over another and getting in world class pissing contests all the [...]

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