Windows 7, the Linux killer?

On many tech blogs/sites I have read a lot about Windows 7 and a lot of articles say the new OS from Redmond could be claim back some Linux converts.

Ubuntu 8.10 beta review

As promised a while back, I’m doing a review on 8.10.

Ubuntu 8.04, newbie material?

Ubuntu is considered as one of the most “newbie friendly” linux distro’s today. But is it really?

Had enough with the crappy flash player for linux?

It’s time to act on it.
It’s come to my attention that adobe now has a new bug system.
Get an account and vote for the problem.
- bad full screen playback together with cpu eating
- slow frame rates (non full screen)
- text encoding issues
And don’t forget the most important one.
- Flash player crashes and takes firefox with [...]

Restricted extra’s in hardy, there’s a catch!

As most of you know, installing the “ubuntu-restricted-extras” is a fast and easy way to install lots of much needed stuff in ubuntu.
Well, in the hardy release they decided to put “open-java” in there instead of java6.
Why, why?
People install the restricted extras so their media and apps would work. Putting in open-java was a [...]