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Windows: Choice But No Choice
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| In the area of window managers Linux users
| are completely and totally spoiled rotten. We
| constantly debate the merits of one desktop
| environment/window manager over another. We
| argue over what programs are better than
| others, what versions of those programs we
| like over another and getting in world class
| pissing contests all the while crying about
| what we wish they would do better or
| differently. I wish Windows users had this
| problem, but they don't. Why? Because they
| have no choice.
|
| [...]
|
| We have gotten fat on the bounty of choices
| and drunk with the power of functionality
| they provide us. Go use a generic NT, 2000 or
| XP setup for a week and then try and tell me
| that KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Enlightenment etc. are
| really that much better or worse than each
| other. Because compared to the Microsoft
| window manager in any version of Windows, any
| Linux window manager blows it away.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/90285/
TSO Explainedââ
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| As I was going through some basic features
| supported by TCP, I came across the TSO
| feature which look very simple and has a very
| elgent design and implemnetation in Linux.
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http://tejparkash.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/tso-explained/
Recent:
Software Choices, Blocking
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| I had a TEDTalk recommended to me a few
| months ago called âThe Paradox of Choiceâ and
| itâs one of those must read books for people
| who want to do effective UI design. Itâs a
| very good scientific explanation of why
| presenting users with millions of choices is
| a bad idea.
|
| [...]
|
| Take for instance the number of choices
| available on Gnome Look for window decoration
| and themes. The problem is that there are
| thousands of possible themes to choose from
| and no matter what you pick, none of them are
| going to be perfect.
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http://doctormo.ubuntu-ma.us/2010/03/05/software-choices-blocking/
Contributing Upstream: An Editorial
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| The foundations of Linux, with how it has
| been developed and when we look at the Debian
| model on which Ubuntu is based, the
| contributions of developers by and large are
| because of their common interests and a
| willingness to accept conceptualizations. In
| recently viewing an interview with Mark
| Shuttleworth these contributions were stated.
| Passing on the valor per-say to that
| foundation and the current developers engaged
| in the Ubuntu project.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/132450/index.html
Linux Distro hunting
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| Basically the bases I need covered are,
|
| * Low profile, able to run in small amount
| of RAM
| * Fast booting
| * Python
| * Firefox 3.x, Opera 10.x or Chromium
| browser
| * Mplayer or similar for video playback
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http://meekgonkey.blogspot.com/2010/01/linux-distro-hunting.html
Too Many Linux Distributions?
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| NOT. No thanks. I want to live in a world
| where I have a choice. Where Jake can come
| along and tell me about a Linux distribution
| that I have never heard of before, but which
| is so right for his needs that he gets all
| excited in writing about it. A world where one
| of the major Linux distributions can stumble,
| and either make a major mistake, or just take
| a couple of years to get out the next version,
| and all the others just keep moving ahead, so
| I can use whichever one works best for me at
| the time.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014954o-2000498448b,00.htm
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