http://friendlylinux.org Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 03 Jun 2007 20:43:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I got my MacBook almost a year ago, I instantly fell in love in OS X - it's Unix, it's compatible and it's pretty, but the love wasn't truly returned. Sure, OS X has some cool stuff bundled, and sure, it's easy to install and remove stuff in OS ... http://friendlylinux.org/2007/06/03/ubuntu-704-on-a-macbook/ MEPIS basically claims to beat all other distributions at the major aspects of desktop-computing, as it claims to feature "unique hardware detection and configuration superior to any others" as well as being "pre-configured for simplicity and ease-of-use, you're productive in a matter of minutes" and it claims to "include the ... http://friendlylinux.org/2007/04/25/simplymepis-65/ Gamers like to be able to play all their games and get right to gaming instead of messing with configurations. Even if their games were available for Linux, switching to Linux seemed like a bad choice until recently, as only a very small amount of commercial games have official Linux-support. ... http://friendlylinux.org/2007/01/28/windows-games-in-linux/ Some interesting stories and some good points were pointed out in the debate following my review of openSUSE and some extra notes was added to the review because of the comments. I've decided to highlight some of these good points and stories in this follow-up: The installation does potentially dangerous things ... http://friendlylinux.org/2007/01/27/opensuse-follow-up-teaser/ openSUSE is a widely known distribution for its huge array of unique tools for managing virtually every part of the system, without having to even think about using the console. It's also known for the stability of the official packages and releases, and it's known for a very stable package-system. SUSE ... http://friendlylinux.org/2007/01/22/opensuse-102/ I have done multiple websites for myself in the past and one of the major lessons I've learned, is that planning ahead is really important. That's why I've created a new page for upcoming articles, which lists all the future subjects I'm going to touch on this page and when. Click ... http://friendlylinux.org/2007/01/17/upcoming-articles/ Introduction When doing documents using general-purpose word-processing software like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org Writer, you are capable of doing just about every formatting you'd feel like and add just the type of content you would like, where you like. These editors are fine for most purposes and they are indeed often ... http://friendlylinux.org/2007/01/15/lyx-the-document-processor/ What is Linux? Linux is a free UNIX-like operating system. Linux is free like in free speech, which means that anybody can get it for free and anybody can modify it to suit their needs. It's been used for servers for years and has recently started to emerge on the desktop-computer ... http://friendlylinux.org/2007/01/12/about/