Xorg 7.3 in Gutsy or Not?

Published in August 22nd, 2007

Is Xorg 7.3 going to make it into Ubuntu Gutsy or not? First I saw this page linked to on Digg: 2007-08-17 bryce: as discussed at the developer meeting yesterday, we’re going to opt for leaving xserver 1.4 for Gutsy+1. In checking with some upstream xorg developers, they concur this is probably the wise approach [...]

Making My Grandparents Leet Linux Users – Part 3

Published in August 21st, 2007

Posted by Tom in specials

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Be sure to read Part 1 and Part 2 of this series also. I use some common Linux tools to remotely support my Grandparents’ PC. These tools are SSH and X11vnc. X11vnc lets me take over the display, and the VNC traffic is tunneled with SSH. They can be a bit of work to set [...]

Linux Grandma Talks with Leo Laporte

Published in August 20th, 2007

Posted by Tom in linuxnews

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This fits in with my series about Linux for Grandparents so well I just had to post it. On Sunday, August 12 Leo Laporte talked to Karin on his radio show. Karin is a Grandma who refused to pay more money to Microsoft and switched to Linux! All by herself, she tried various Linux distributions [...]

Making My Grandparents Leet Linux Users – Part 2

Published in August 19th, 2007

Posted by Tom in specials

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If you have not already read part 1, read it here. My Grandparentsâ€™ Linux desktop had to be super-simple for them to use. While default GNOME or Xfce are pretty straight-forward, I wanted something better. I decided to go with Xfce just because they would not be needing any of GNOMEâ€™s fancy features. Like GNOME, [...]

My Five Favorite Linux Games

Published in August 18th, 2007

Posted by Tom in software

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Here are my current five favorite Linux-native games, in order. Frozen Bubble 2.1.0 (ubuntu repository) Nexuiz 2.3 (download) Wormux 0.7.9 (ubuntu repository) Scorched 3D 40.1d (ubuntu repository) SuperTux 0.3.0 (download) It is impressive that a few people working together over the Internet can produce games just as fun and polished as those made by big [...]

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