Whether you have been using a computer for years, or if you are totally new to it all, this guide can help you get to grips with all the important parts of using Linux, as opposed to Windows (or Mac OS) in order to operate your computer.
Albeit slightly late news, better late than never: The OpenOffice suite, version 3.1 has been released offering a good number of enhancements. Including improved screen appearance (smooth anti-alised graphics, especially good for OpenOffice Draw), Improved file locking, Overlining, Improvements to comments, better grammar checker integration, zoom
A lot of people who are either trying out Linux for the first time, or are thinking about using Linux but haven't yet taken the leap often hear some pretty crazy misconceptions about Linux. Some of these myths are old truths of years gone by or are completely made up. Whatever the reason for the distortion, this article gives the facts.
Whether you have been using Windows or Mac for 10 years, or if you are totally new to computers, this guide can help you get to grips with the basics of the Linux operating system, a great open source operating environment for your computer.
A lot of great artwork has been submitted to Ubuntu for selection for the upcoming release of the latest Ubuntu release, 9.10 which is due out in October. Most of the really nice artwork goes unseen, so here are a few submissions, plus a first glimpse at what will probably become the boot screen and login screen for Ubuntu 9.10:Here is a nice
Here is a video tutorial specifically covering how to install software in Linux. It talks about the differences between installing software on Windows and Mac OS X to Linux making a point of showing that there is no more laborious trawling the web to find that essential download, or hunting your CDROM library to get that software installed!
It had to happen sooner rather than later! Dell presents Microsoft Operating System: Ubuntu 8.04 :) - Available at Dell's website now!
A lot of folks know that FFMpeg is a great tool for converting video including flash, quicktime, ogg, windows media (wmv) as well as plenty more formats. Only problem is, FFMpeg is a command line utility. This article talks about winFF, a free easy to use front-end for FFMpeg for Linux and Windows.
In a day of big releases, Version 1.0 of Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop was released today. Ulteo is a product built on open source technologies that allows an enterprise or smaller company run a Linux server that holds both Linux and Windows based applications and presents them together as one cohesive solution running in a web browser.
I found this site a few months back when I was looking out links for newbie friendly Linux sites. The author has recently made some videos that show the average mom & pop user how to put Ubuntu on their PC. I really like how he makes it simple and goes through each point in turn. 10/10 for effort.
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