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Category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD and Software you should try.
Microsoft has listed 100 reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista and to leave Windows XP behind. Thanks Microsoft for the list. While reading the list, a Linux user will mark all those reasons and a few more others as “I already have that in my Linux installation“.
…and after marking them all, he/she will add:
“I […]
Written by cdriga on October 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Category: General and OpenOffice.org.
Looking for a list of office suites available on the market to include in the poll for my blog, I ran across this Office suites comparison charts page on Wikipedia. It’s quite a good place to compare software options when it comes to office suites and it also adds to the competition between the suites. […]
Written by cdriga on October 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD and OpenOffice.org.
A company executive from Quickoffice claims that OpenOffice.org users mostly save their documents in .DOC (Microsoft Office) file formats. Slashdot is wondering, is this true ? The Slashdot article is located here.
The question remains and would be a good one to include in the next OpenOffice.org user survey. I personally save in ODF, the OpenOffice.org’s […]
Written by cdriga on October 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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Category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD and Software you should try.
Kim Brebach enumerates in an article in DesktopLinux.com 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop, I would add: even if you still have Windows installed.
The reasons in short:
Cost
Resources
Performance
No bloatware
Security
Dual booting
Installation
Reinstalling the OS
Keeping track of software
Updating software
More security
No need to defrag disks
A wealth of built-in utilities
The article is located here: http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5836989728.html.
Written by cdriga on October 18th, 2007 with no comments.
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Category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD and Software you should try.
6 years ago, I was already tired of viruses, blank screens, blue screens, malware, spyware, the need to reinstall the operating system from time to time and all sorts of other Windows goodies which for a user born in the Microsoft era consume a lot of his daily time.
I decided to investigate if there are […]
Written by cdriga on October 17th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Category: Uncategorized.
A friend of mine gave me the idea of asking readers what topics they would like to see covered in this blog. The result is this page in which you are invited to build up a wish-list of topics you are interested in. I am also adding there some topics proposals which I intend to […]
Written by cdriga on October 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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Category: OpenOffice.org.
PRESS RELEASE:
OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary
104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite
Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads have been increasing since the release […]
Written by cdriga on October 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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Category: Software you should try.
Years ago, while publishing a magazine for my school, I tried various applications for desktop publishing and complex documents editing. At that time there was PageMaker, Publisher, and a few others. At some point I also tried QuarkXPress, all of them having ups and downs either for a newbie or for a professional to tell […]
Written by cdriga on October 12th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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Category: FUD detector and OPEN SOURCE WORLD.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a talk at a company event in the UK last week saying that Red Hat customers need to pay Microsoft for its beloved Intellectual Property.
Written by theFUDterrier on October 10th, 2007 with no comments.
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Category: General.
8 months ago I was in trouble: I had very little disk space, tight bandwidth, only two mysql databases, limited number of subdomains, no shell access, even some downtimes AND especially, I could not host more than one domain name on the same account with my previous hosting solution. More, I was getting a lot […]
Written by cdriga on October 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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