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Archive for June 5th, 2007

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 [...]


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