Office suites comparison charts
| October 21, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under General, 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.…
Slashdot: Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?
| October 19, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, 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…
DesktopLinux.com: 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop
| October 18, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, 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…
Non Windows worlds – Linux stories part 1
| October 17, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD, 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…
Suggest a topic
| October 14, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under 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…
Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!
| October 13, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under 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…
Scribus: Desktop publishing software at no licensing cost – part 1
| October 12, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under 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…
Microsoft’s weapon against Open Source is IP
| October 10, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under FUD detector, 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.
Hostgator.com – my webhosting surprise
| October 5, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under 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…
Older news on SCO
| September 25, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
This article tells the story of SCO filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after the decision of a federal judge who ruled in August that Novell, not SCO, owns the intellectual property to the Unix operating system.
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