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.... 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...
...urers) 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 Li...
...ards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a productive Linux system for the desktop, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial soft...
  The question of taking a chance on open source in mission critical application is discussed by Christopher Dawson in the context of the decisions that had to be made in the library where he w
From CNET news: http://news.com.com/2100-1001-938685.html 'Breaking into the desktop market will be tough. Although Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft isn't dominant in servers, it has 94 percent of t
...is at least 45C for the day, I suggest that he fire up weather.com and have a look. He agrees, goes to his desktop Dell, and double-punches IE. A while later he types in 'www.weather.com' and it insta...
...nv: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:01:00 -0400 (EDT) /bin/sh: line 1: Desktop: command not found This is the contents of 'settime': /usr/sbin/netdate time-nw.n...
It's here, the one you've all been awaitin' for! http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/2.0.0/releases/gnome-2.0-desktop-final/
Hi, I'm generally a big fan of the linux desktop. But I have a usability problem that is really becoming a show stopper. I am very susceptible to fatigue/pain whenever I use a mouse, and I want to t
...Linux command shell (program name)? Also, how can I add that program to the RedHat start menu on the X-Win desktop (KDE)? Thanks in advance Morenga...
Sun has a very nice study on GNOME Usability up at http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/ut1_report/ It demonstrates, rather nicely, that GNOME still has a very long way to go. Many of the issues
...tion would belong to comp.os.linux.setup. Also, you need to supply more information, starting with which desktop you are using. Please visit the following web site for more info on how to ask good q...
...o load their own operating system.' ' However, the lowest-priced PC on the site is the $299 SYSMAR701 desktop. It features an 850MHz Duron, 128MB of RAM, a 10GB hard drive and a CD-ROM drive as w...
...experience using under Linux. My normal adventures with Linux usually involve network services and not the desktop/home entertainment arena, so I haven't played much with the multimedia stuff. First...
...id I pick up the right version? What do people currently use to run Java applications? I run RH7.2 on my desktop....
...station but would really like to be able to access the various shares and printers straight from the Linux desktop. Any help really appreciated as I'm new and this is probably really simple stuff to...
The 1st wIndependence Day celebration, DesktopLinux.com is inviting readers to send in their 500-1000 word accounts of how they have 'kicked the Windows habit' or implemented Linux as a Windows-altern
Hello, Anyone have any idea or suggestions on how to revert an 'upgrade' to ximian desktop 2 on a SuSE 8.2 system? This upgrade has been a horror show. Evolution 1.4 is completely unstable and cra
...ing anything for something like Linux, PHP, Apache, an SQL server, etc, in addition to having a functional desktop without something like Solitaire or Minesweeper taking up space, then why do we keep ...
Oh, I forgot, 0.24% of the market share... It'll never happen. It's too geek oriented. Geeks don't know what real users want and/or need. Figure it out, Columbo.
I have red hat 7.1 and windows 98 dual booting on one of my desktop computers. The problem I am having is that the time is wrong one or the other. If I set the correct time on linux for instance, the
...an they would ever need. Windows is on the cutting edge of making video, audio and multimedia technology a desktop reality for the average person. Linux has to reverse engineer codecs and crack copy p...
...t this *bulletin* and alerted him to the fact that php and apache own the web, that Walmart is now selling desktops loaded with Linux, that Google runs on Linux.... on and on.... See if he get's a c...
I guess Walmart got RedHat shook up over this whole desktop issue and the fact that Lindows and Mandrake are the only two to be offered. Redhat has decided to enter the desktop frey for real this ti
...es to the XF86Config file. And fired up the WindowMaker. All I do now is export the dispaly from my main desktop machine to the laptop. No flicker on the TFT screen. I have access to all my apps and...
Can we PLEASE get the government out of our computers? I don't want DOJ telling MS how to run thier business anymore than I want DOJ or any other agency telling me how to run my business. There is
... almost always IDE). Besides, laptops are more customized, and therefore aren't easily upgradeable, unlike desktop systems. With many laptops, things like video and sound are builtin, and can't be cha...
...ve got to say that there's nothing that can compare to this in Windows, especially not that joke of active desktop! Even with a movie playing and this running along with the other programs I have open...
You crack me up. X hasn't crashed on my machine since I switched at the start of '99.
...with Linux, it just works. Also!! I can run apps there or on the laptop, all seamlessly integrated on my desktop. It is a wonderful thing. It is truly amazing what a OS can do when it is designed....
HA! Look at this ZDNET poll on what desktop people prefer! http://cgi.zdnet.com/anchordesk/zdpoll/ question.html?pollid=25618&action=a
...y like Ximian, they really have made it almost brainless to install and use a very nice fully incorporated Desktop. Plus it's not as resource intensive as KDE for most things. I like KDE alot, and i...
...uldn't there be a way to treat a USB device sort of like how Linux treats a CD-ROM.... with an icon on the desktop but when only 'works' if you have a CD loaded? Thanks,...
...endering farm OS and is starting to move into the workstation environment! Get it? Workstations ARE on the desktop! Remember that it was the workstations were the Winvocates claimed the real work was ...
So, I have just installed Red Hat 8.0 on my Gateway 2500 laptop. I like the Gnome desktop, and OpenOffice looks like it might be really nice. My problem is in getting OpenOffice to communicate with my
...achine, or does it only upgrade software that is already installed? In particular, can I upgrade with the 'Desktop' option?...
I'm going to get a new desktop machine with a flat-screen LCD monitor. I know that Linux (most versions) have problems either identifying or working with some cards. Can anyone suggest a card (an moni
Hi, I'm using gdm to login into my RH 9.0 machine. I'm using kde 3.1.1 as my default desktop environment. When I log out all I get is a small window with two buttons : End Session and Cancel. Does gdm
...a samba file server from windows machines for ages (just taken it to bits cos I wanted a bigger hdd for my desktop!). Bear in mind that the linux box probably won't return info like ink levels......
Hi there, my problem is that in the RH9 - Settings for the Desktop Resolution and the advanced setup, where to change monitor and graphics cars, the Checkbox 'Hardware acceleration' is not checkable
...er market. I is eating Microsoft's lunch in the real CPU power game (clusters). It is lagging a bit in the desktop, but, then again, so is Microsoft. Let me explain, people don't see a reason to upgra...
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