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Switching to Linux Day 2: Remnants of Windows
So lots more win since yesterday. Pictured here, in a screen cap of my Desktop, you can see VirtualBox OSE, running a legit copy of Win XP. In the lower-left is a network share from my desktop computer...
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Switching to Linux Day 3: Gaming
This morning I played a full game (one-on-one, vs. AI) of Civilization IV. It ran awesomely. The graphics and sound both looked/sounded terrific. There was a small glitch with one of my save files...
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Switching to Linux Day 4: Syncing Outlook to gCalendar
Back to work today. Over the past 2 days, I’ve established this laptop’s pwnage as a gaming machine (it pwns). But how does it, and more importantly, how does Linux hold up in an environment that has...
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Switching to Linux: First Month Retrospective
Well, it’s been one month. I figured since I had blogged obsessively for the first week, it seemed only fair to see how things stand after the initial test-period. Before I get to the details, the...
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Karmic win, pt. 1
Karmic Koala, the alias for release 9.10 of Ubuntu Linux, was published last week. Until now, I had been running version 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and had passed on the two successive releases (Intrepid Ibex,...
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Karmic Win pt. 2, Google & your Desktop [Linux FTW]
Continuation of the Karmic Win series — part 1 was about installation and initial setup. One thing I noticed right away when I first started poking around in Karmic Koala was the little envelope icon...
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Karmic Win pt. 3, Playing Music
The previous post in this series discussed configuring the desktop to integrate with Google applications. Being able to play music while working is one of the nice perks of modern computers. On Linux,...
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Karmic Win pt. 4, Firefox Win
In the last post, we discussed using Rhythmbox media player and integrating with Last.fm. Karmic Koala installs Firefox 3.5, the newest version, natively. It’s pretty sweet. It runs a lot faster and...
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Karmic Win pt. 5, the Cloud
In the last post we discussed using Rhythmbox music player, linking it up to last.fm and configuring it. I will do a future post comparing it to Amarok and Banshee. With this new version of Ubuntu,...
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Karmic Win pt. 6, Gnome-do & Twitter
Yesterday, we discussed using the new “UbuntuOne” cloud service, and integrating it into numerous apps on Karmic. A while back, I discovered the Avant Window Navigator, a Mac-style docking program...
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