Archive for the ‘ Ranting ’ Category

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.

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2009
01/15
CATEGORY
Ranting
26 comments

Ubuntu 8.10 beta review

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

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2008
10/18
CATEGORY
News
Ranting
17 comments

Ubuntu 8.04, newbie material?

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

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2008
05/05
CATEGORY
How-to
Ranting
12 comments

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 it.

Who knows, they might start listening to their users.

I guess someone should add an “make it open source” bug … (insert evil laugh + knuckle cracking)

2008
04/27
CATEGORY
News
Ranting
4 comments

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 bad move and will only add another step in the customizing process.

I had to remove the package from synaptic and install “sun-java6-jre” and the plugin from synaptic to get frostwire running.

2008
04/27
CATEGORY
Ranting
7 comments