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Heard at the Ubuntu Developer Summit: Goodbye GIMP, hello ... nothing – and why every Linux user should consider gThumb over F-Spot

The OMG!Ubuntu blog reports on the decision, however preliminary, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Dallas to remove the GIMP image editor from the 10.04 Lucid LTS release of the wildly popular Linux distribution. Read the well-wrought entry linked ...

From STEVEN ROSENBERG, LXer,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

WorksWithU: Dell cozies up to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - read the comments for an interesting take on the LTS as a 'rolling release'

Notice how I'm doing quick entries on WorksWithU just about every day? That's because WorksWithU is one of the very best sites out there on Ubuntu and the enterprise, with a lot applicable to the average user as well. What interests me more than the ...

From STEVEN ROSENBERG, LXer,  19 Nov 2009

For her, jobless checks are little consolation

LAWRENCE - Irma Rendon says the bad luck began 11 months ago. That’s when her factory boss in North Andover told her that after four years of assembling cables she was no longer needed. Then last month, after she took a job at a Bedford factory through ...

From STEVEN ROSENBERG, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

No work for the weary

It’s 10 o’clock on a Monday morning and about 100 solemn-faced people crowd into a gray-walled waiting room in an old brick building hard by the railroad tracks in Lawrence. The group is nearly silent and the faces are glum and filled with tension. The ...

From STEVEN ROSENBERG, Boston Globe,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lucent Technologies, Inc.

Today in 'Latest Ubuntu Karmic fails': USB drives automount with UUID instead of 'disk' as their device name

Normally a change in the automounting of USB drives in Ubuntu wouldn't be a big deal. But in my case I've been using shell scripts to back up my Ubuntu box to USB drives via rsync. And before Karmic, those USB drives automounted with the name "disk" ...

From STEVEN ROSENBERG, LXer,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Skype

Tech-no-media blogger asks, 'Is Ubuntu broken?'

This is the kind of thing I'd normally just tweet about, but the problem with Twitter is that if it's not doing anything for you, i.e. bringing you (or me) traffic, you're just giving away your time. Hence I pretty much have relegated Twitter to ...

From STEVEN ROSENBERG, LXer,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc

Hearing of a veteran’s plight, couple personify the kindness of strangers

Debra Freelove lives in Salem, works in carpet sales, and is not a philanthropist. Arthur Foster is a Korean War veteran who has been drifting from city to city across America for years. The two were not acquainted until last Sunday. That’s when ...

From STEVEN ROSENBERG, Boston Globe,  14 Nov 2009

Thunderbird and Lightning (very, very frightening ... or not so much) in Ubuntu

Here's my problem. I need a calendar app that rudely beeps to tell me when to go to meetings and such. In Ubuntu, that means the Evolution mail client, which has an extensive calendar function, or so I'm told. But I don't run Evolution. I use ...

From STEVEN ROSENBERG, LXer,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.

Canonical's Jono Bacon on the agony, ecstacy of Ubuntu Karmic - and my rant on the state of Linux today

Read the 10 or so entries below this one and you can see the problems I've had. It's time to put this in perspective. I've had plenty of problems with all manner of Linux and other Unix-like operating systems over the past few years. Given all the ...

From STEVEN ROSENBERG, LXer,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Toshiba,  Intel

Ubuntu One: Not the Holy Cloud Grail but useful enough and with a lot of potential

Canonical has been touting its Ubuntu One cloud-storage solution, which allows you to mirror up to 2 GB of files for free and up to 50 GB for $10/month. The service also allows you to sync Tomboy Notes and Evolution contacts across multiple Ubuntu ...

From STEVEN ROSENBERG, LXer,  11 Nov 2009

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