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Tag Archives: Linux
8 OpenOffice Extensions, Add-ons and Templates for Writers
Image via Wikipedia Over the past couple of years, OpenOffice seems to have gone from “That Free Office Clone For People Who Can’t Afford MS Office to “Why Pay For Office when I have OpenOffice?” There’s a couple of good reasons for this beyond the price. OpenOffice is multi-platform. You can run it on Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. It runs off a pen drive if needed. It has features missing from Office like the ability to export in PDF. …
Posted in OPenOffice
Tagged Creative Commons licenses, Google Doc, Google Docs, Linux, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Open Office, OpenOffice.org
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Spread Evil for Free: Ubuntu Satanic Edition
Image by themactep via Flickr Ready To go All the way into themed Operating Systems? How about a Dark Metal skin for the Popular Ubuntu Operating System? I’ve sound this neat little thing called Ubuntu Satanic Edition. Awesome. Ubuntu Satanic isn’t really a remix. It’s a series of Well executed screensavers, splash screens and desktop themes that change your linux box into a horror themed monstrosity. Fun for the entire family, if your family’s like mine. Here’s a couple Screen …
Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and More
Image via Wikipedia One recipe, many flavors of the the popular linux distribution One of the reasons Newcomers to Linux are scared off is the sheer number of choice-Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, Arch, Debian, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS…And all the variants and forks and amateur releases and specialties and on and on… So Let’s take a look at one popular branch and see if we an figure some stuff out- Debian- Our tour starts with Debian. The new release, Debian 5.0 was just …
Posted in Linux
Tagged GNOME, KDE, Linux, Linux distribution, Linux Kernel, LinuxMint, Ubuntu
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5 Enlightened Linux Distros
Image via Wikipedia Regular readers know I’ve been using Linux, trying to get another year or two of decent performance out of the Coal-fired pentium I use around the house. (ed.- It died in Sept, 09. Since then I’ve been Running Satanic Ubuntu and Windows 7. ) This led to Live Linux CDs of the various “Major” distributions, a few stabs at dual-boot installations, and finally a full bore, Linux only reformat with Fedora, quickly followed by PCLinuxOS. I’ve been …
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Tagged Distros, Fedora, KDE, Linux, Linux distribution, Linux Mint, Live CD, Ubuntu
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Linux for Senior Citizens and Computers
This Showed up on Reddit today: 82 year old runs Linux I was interested. I’ve been running PC LinuxOS for a couple of months and thought I’d update readers on what’s happening. First, I’m Using Open Office and Celtx pretty exclusively for Word processing. I still use Firefox for the web and Thunderbird for Email: Both of these work pretty much the same as Their Windows Counterparts. I’ve got a whole slew of Strategy games that I play Pretty Regularly: …
Linux Update: 2nd Month and Going Strong.
Well, How have you guys been? Me, I’ve been doing great. Using a few new programs, playing a few new games. feeling like the king of the Leets on Linux. Couple of updates: Got rid of Fedora.based on the responses from the 5 Favorite Linux Distros I thought I’d try PCLinuxOS. Stupid name. Great Product. Based on Mandriva, it’s extremely easy to use. Can’t get the printer to work under it. I’ve tried to alien the rpm to a deb …
