I was a huge fan of BeOS and was extremely dissappointed by the slow demise of Be and its eventual sale to Palm. Ever since the death of Be I have been closely watching the various attempts to keep the dream alive. Many projects have come and gone in an attempt to recreate the magic […]
I recently installed the latest Ubuntu Dapper release (6.04 Alpha 4). The first thing I did was use the following instructions to install the new Xgl/Compiz packages.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XglHowto
Earlier in the week I also installed OpenSuSE 10.1 beta 4 and surprisingly getting Xgl/Compiz to work on Ubuntu was a thousand times easier than trying to get […]
What can I say…LTSP is cool! I have had a plan in the works for a while to implement LTSP at work for a key group of users. Over the last couple of weeks we have been expirementing with various distributions and setups to see which would best server our purpose and give us the […]
I was interested to see this Information Technology Bulletin from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Office for Information Technology. The bulletin lays out the Commonwealth’s policy regarding a standard for which Linux servers can be used within the State government.
This does not specify that they are standardizing on Linux, it simply states that as far as […]
There has been a lot of chatter across the net lately about Novell showing off its Novell Linux Desktop 10 which is due out later this year. After watching the videos and viewing the screenshots I must admit I have mixed emotions.
The screenshots are just mockups but after watcing the videos they seem to be […]
It’s been a while since I made a post on the ol’ blog and there has been a lot I have wanted to say so I will try to quickly do a little catch up post. So without further ado, and in reverse chronological order…
[Netbeans 5.0]
I just noticed that Netbeans 5.0 final has been […]