Google Chrome was released this week. Another browser in the fray, just when I needed one. Firefox (yes, 3.0) was acting up lately and since I use it everywhere I needed a good solution to my bookmarks (Del.icio.us is neat, I use it a ) , extensions and other functionality and something that didn’t [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Open Source’
April 29, 2008
“The Great Ubuntu Girlfriend Experiment”
http://contentconsumer.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-enough-for-my-girlfriend/
A pretty interesting post about what makes Ubuntu’s latest avatar (Hardy Heron) usable (or unusable) for people with average computer skills. It hit me that whatever we geeks assume as being self-evident is in reality quite disconnected with what is presented to us in the system. This post, to me, was more illustrative of how [...]
April 15, 2008
Everyone Installs Ubuntu!
I read a post on The Reg yesterday called “The missing five minute linux manual for morons” and was struck by one observation on it, which I found to be quite true of Open source converts.
The conscientious would-be Linux user should take time to mull over the pros and cons of the Red Hat versus [...]
