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Archive for June 2007

What is so great about Feisty

Posted by: Anurag Panda on: June 9, 2007

Released on April 19 through the world, Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn has arguably become the best version of the world’s most exciting distro yet. This Ubuntu release has introduced major changes which was unanimously felt needed by users all throughout the world.
Great New things in Feisty

The Ubuntu 7.04 installation setup has been much improved. Included [...]

Dell’s Ubuntu PCs

Posted by: Anurag Panda on: June 7, 2007

Last few weeks I have been one of the biggest linux newsmaker has been Dell’s decision to offer Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. My initial reaction was being very pleased. It had always been irritating for me to see the screwed up faces of dealers followed by a shaking of head when I asked them about Ubuntu [...]

GeeXboX – The ultimate Home Jukebox

Posted by: Anurag Panda on: June 6, 2007

If you find yourself staring pitifully at a pile of metal, your old PC yellowed by dust, lying unused for months or and do not want to bother with movie codec issues, then read on. You can use any ancient hardware to the very latest to make it your very own jukebox, and with no [...]

How piracy hurts open source

Posted by: Anurag Panda on: June 5, 2007

Just the other day I conducted a survey among my friends about the genuine status of their Operating System. And the result of the survey was:

Genuine Windows 9%
Pirated Windows 89%
Linux/Mac 1%

This did not come a surprise to me as I live in India, here pirated software rules thanks to high prices [...]

Why I no longer use Kubuntu

Posted by: Anurag Panda on: June 5, 2007

Along with Ubuntu which has GNOME by default, Canonical also offers Kubuntu which is KDE by default and also Xubuntu which is Xfce by default.
Though Kubuntu and Xubuntu are available as separate distros. It is easy to transform Ubuntu to Kubuntu or Xubuntu or vice versa.
My first experience with Ubuntu was Dapper Drake which included [...]

The SiS incompatibility in Feisty

Posted by: Anurag Panda on: June 5, 2007

The new Ubuntu Feisty Fawn arrived at my doorstep through ShipIt this month. Pleased and excited I popped in the CD and waited with excited breaths about the new Ubuntu Feisty. But a terribly when the Live Cd had booted (after a wait of 15 minutes in my PC – a pentium III), I was [...]

How I ended up using Ubuntu

Posted by: Anurag Panda on: June 4, 2007

My first experience with Linux dated back in 2004.
I was using Windows XP and and was anything but a satisfied user. Mainly because my machine was an ancient Pentium III with 64 MB RAM. It was tedious even to run basic programs. It took at least fifteen minutes to boot up Windows (along with the [...]


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