Category: Ubuntu
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Living in Stallman’s World
Recently, Richard Stallman posted that we should now shun Ubuntu because it includes (in his exact words) spyware. He’s referring to the fact that the most recent (12.10) release of Ubuntu includes the Shopping Lens by default, which integrates search results from Amazon into your Dash. Of course, this is hardly “spyware”. Such a term
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Ubuntu in the Corporate
I’ve been using Ubuntu 11.04 in the corporate environment for over a year now and this post will attempt to summarise the frankly disappointing state of affairs that is “linux in the corporate environment”. Thumnbnails Such a little thing – getting a thumbnail for your images, videos or office documents. In Windows, once a directory
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Chromium (Take Two)
It was September last year when I last properly tried Chromium in Ubuntu. Back then, there was no bookmark sync, extensions were a glint in the dev’s eyes and GTK theme support was a new feature. I didn’t particularly elaborate in that article about why I didn’t make the switch back then. In fact, I
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Blogilo
After a bit of research, spurred on by this OMG Ubuntu! article, I bit the bullet and installed Blogilo. Before doing so, I tried BloGTK and Gnome Blog. The former had potential, but no WYSIWYG editor, so you had to know your HTML. I don’t. The latter was incredibly basic and doesn’t even download previous
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Great Ubuntu Software
Just a quick list of top-quality Ubuntu software that you may or may not have heard about. In no particular order. Many are installable from the repository, while others might require a little google/search for their PPA (I’ve kicked you off with a link for each). This post revolves around Ubuntu 10.04 – the Lucid
