by Virginia
Turboprint is a utility that lets you use various printers that don’t yet have a Linux driver.
The TurboPrint printing system for Linux not only offers high-quality printer drivers, but also comfortable tools for printer monitoring, error diagnosis, color profile management, printer configuration etc. No need to adjust settings like gamma, color saturation, color balance etc. Simply choose your printer, paper type and print quality – the rest is done by TurboPrint’s intelligent printer drivers.
Michael Dolan posted his informative review on the new features of the TurboPrint 2:
I’ve tried just about ever trick in the book to get my Canon just to print. Last year I gave up and finally just paid for TurboPrint. It’s a decent program and while it’s not cheap, it is cheaper than buying a new printer.
by Virginia
Bill Buros and few friends were playing around recently counting up how many “portals” they could find for information in and around Linux for Power systems.
For the portals, we did find an amazing assortment of web pages available. We hit classic marketing portals, hardware and performance information, generic Linux information, technical portals, a couple of old and outdated portals, various download sites for added-value items, lots of IBM forums on developerWorks, IBM Redbooks (always good information), and pointers to wiki pages spanning a number of subjects.
You can find more links in his post Linux on Power.. links and portals.
by Virginia
courtesy of NeoDaVe
Intrepid Ibex was released on 2008-10-30, was Canonicals ninth and latest release of Ubuntu. It will be supported until April 2010. Ubuntu 8.10 has several new features including a new default theme, improvements to mobile computing and desktop scalability, increased flexibility for Internet connectivity The desktop installation of Ubuntu 8.10 includes, among other programs, GIMP 2.6, GNOME 2.24, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, OpenOffice.org 2.4, and Pidgin 2.5. The server installation will include MySQL 5.0, PHP 5.2 and Python 2.5. Ubuntu 8.10 uses Linux 2.6.27 and X.Org 7.4. The fast-user-switch-applet has undergone major changes as well.
Clair from the new Linux user-blog writes a short review on the Intrepid Ibex.
It’s been a quirky day 1 of using Intrepid Ibex. For one thing, F-spot seems to be opening the directories in the “Places” menu. For another the updated version of Gimp is a bit different already because it uses “Create” instead of “Acquire” for one of the menu items.
by Virginia
All about Linux-blog has brought to my attention that kingston the major global players in the USB storage and memory market had unveiled the USB drive calld DataTraveler 150. The USB flash drive offers the largest capacity in the line: 32GB. Forget carrying a few dozen MP3s, a couple photos, and some Word docs. That kind of storage puts a digital media collection in your pocketand it is also linux friendly . go to all about linux for a full review.
by Virginia
Bear in mind this is the choice of Linux vendors and developers so I might not be the top 3 on the list of an home user.
You can read the whole discussion with the comments here. This is the context for Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols post:
San Francisco, Calif.–While at LinuxWorld at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, I chaired the panel on what the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) that are pre-installing Linux on their PCs are up to and I attended another panel on what the Linux desktop architects have planned. One theme that showed up at both functions is: “What does Linux need to do to compete more successfully on the desktop?” We came up with several pain points, but some of them are clearly hurting Linux more than the others.
The big three were power management, applications and device drivers.
The responses of the reader depended greatly on their perspective. Adan Kane on Foogazi.com supported the conclusions while many others that use Linux for other purposes suggested a very different list.
I wonder what would be the big three of the Linux home user?
