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The 7 Irritations of GNOME and KDE

Life in an Olympics-occupied city has left me grumpy. Ordinarily, I'm a tolerably contented desktop user, spending about three-quarters of my time in KDE and the rest in GNOME, with occasional forays into other desktops. But in the last two weeks, ...

From BRUCE BYFIELD, LXer,  6 Mar 2010

Working with Graphics Text in OpenOffice.org

One of the least understood features of OpenOffice.org is graphics text. People understand vaguely that it differs from regular text, but exactly how it differs or why anyone should care is mostly unknown. However, if you know the distinction, graphics ...

From BRUCE BYFIELD, Linux Journal,  25 Feb 2010

OpenOffice.org: The Need for Style

Office applications like OpenOffice.org can bring out the worst in people. The same people who wouldn’t dream of driving a car without a few lessons will start pounding away in a word processor as though it were a typewriter, ignoring basic features ...

From BRUCE BYFIELD, LXer,  19 Feb 2010

KDE Review: KDE 4.4 Comes in from the Cold

Between radical changes and limited functionality, the KDE 4 series got off to a rough start. However, with each release, KDE 4 has improved steadily and silenced more critics. Now, with the KDE 4.4 release, the series has reached first maturity. Those ...

From BRUCE BYFIELD, LXer,  17 Feb 2010

GNOME's Evolution Gets a New Face for Netbooks

February 9, 2010 One unforeseen benefit of the rise of netbooks is the rethinking of desktop interfaces. Compared to workstations, netbooks have smaller screens and less memory, and developers generally assume that users do less demanding tasks on ...

From BRUCE BYFIELD, LXer,  10 Feb 2010

The Small Picture: More OpenOffice.org Extensions

Every few weeks, I like to browse the site to see what is available, and what people are using. New extensions that are both useful and well-designed seem to be getting few and far between. However, if you search patiently, you can still find ...

From BRUCE BYFIELD, LXer,  4 Feb 2010

Fedora vs. Ubuntu: Is Either Better?

Fedora or Ubuntu? That is a question that Linux users are asking with increasing frequency. The question is not random -- the two distributions have consistently topped the downloads on Distrowatch for the last two years. Read Fedora and Ubuntu mail ...

From BRUCE BYFIELD, LXer,  3 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Mark Shuttleworth

The choices inside Ubuntu

I’m all for a linux company making money. But regardless of how this deal money flows, it will make it back to microsoft, as yahoo is in bed with them. How much longer until we are changing everything in linux to suit corporate interests. It ...

From BRUCE BYFIELD, LXer,  29 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Yahoo!,  Novell, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

The right to comment

Several times in the last few months, I’ve closed discussion on one of my blogs. Each time, some people have howled in outrage. Their anger makes them nearly inarticulate, but their position is apparently that I have no right to stop discussion. I am ...

From BRUCE BYFIELD, LXer,  16 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Linus Torvalds

KDE vs. GNOME: Photo and Music Management

Most comparisons of the KDE and GNOME desktops focus on usability and productivity apps. However, they often neglect what might be called the leisure apps -- specifically, those used for image and music management. But in the modern online culture, ...

From BRUCE BYFIELD, LXer,  13 Jan 2010

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Flickr,  Facebook Inc.

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