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try Google Chrome!

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Published on Friday, 05 September 2008 00:00

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Google Chrome is the latest answer from Google to the market of browser. I plan to use it at the moment for its privacy feature (you should be able to browse without leaving any cookie or trace) fro my e-banking. After 2 days of usage, I still feel not ready to give away my other browser: Firefox (at work) targeted for development: Firebug, web developer, tamper data, fast dial, http fox, fire gesture Opera (at home) as I always keep 25 windows open and refresh them when needed all together! I like Google chrome, as it work perfectly and always give the best search result. I will switch if any engine is able to deliver better results, but since 9 years, I am still waiting... http://www.google.com/chrome

Linux is Not Windows

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Published on Sunday, 16 April 2006 13:23

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A very good article; worth reading to better understand the difference between Linux and Windows and motivate an eventual switch...

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"Too many people think that migrating from Windows to Linux is like switching from a BMW to a Mercedes. They think that the controls should be the same, their experience should transfer directly, and all differences should be largely cosmetic. They think that "I need a car to use a road, I need an OS to use a computer. Cars all work the same way, therefore OSes should all work the same way." But this is not accurate. "I need a vehicle to use a road, I need an OS to use a computer. I know how to drive a car, I'm ignorant about motorbikes. I know how to use Windows, I'm ignorant about Linux." - this is accurate."

Read more here; also tranlate in 8 languages

SuSE 10.1 released

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Published on Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:10

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SUSE Linux 10.1 is available for download at the following mirrors. This release is SuSE 10.1 and not different from what you will later be able to buy in a store. The boxed retail comes with 5 CDs for x86 and one DVD9 for x86 and x86_64 and it also includes non-OSS software. It also comes with a nice, thick printed manual and 30 days of support. You won't get that with the free download. The free download comes on 5CDs without non-OSS software and one add-on CD with this non-OSS software. Later (hopefully not much later) there will be two DVD5 releases, one for x86 and one for x86_64 that are almost identical with the retail DVD9 and that include OSS and non-OSS software. TORRENTS http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-10.1/ TORRENTS (MIRROR) http://ftp-1.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/ http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/ http://keith.hostmatrix.org/SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-i386.torrent http://97k.ath.cx/ul/SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-x86_64.torrent Product Highlights XGL on SUSE 10.1 For those who prefer the DVD version, You ll have to buy the box version or use a small LINUX utility called 'makeSuseDVD' out. It will take the 5 CD ISOs and build a single DVD iso.

Java is free software

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Published on Monday, 13 November 2006 21:34

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From Joshua Marinacci Blog

"The big announcement today: Java will be open sourced under the GPL. I think it makes a lot of sense because it protects Sun's interest in preventing forks and also the community's interest in knowing that Java will forever be available in the public sphere. The GPL has always provided an option to fork just in case someone takes the code in a bad direction. Historically having this option available ensures that it never needs to actually be used, letting the community grow and thrive.

So what does this actually mean? What is the benefit to open source Java? How will things change? Here's what I think will change and what won't. I say this as my own opinion, not an official statement from Sun. I also say this as someone new to Sun, coming to Sun two years ago from an open source background. I'm sure that engineers with more experience than I will have different opinions. So with that, let's hear it:

How will open source change Java

• Real bugs will be fixed faster and non-bugs will be closed faster than ever.
• Java won't fork. Few developers will have incentive to fork Java. It's a lot of work for little gain. Branches for new features or new platform support: yes. A true fork: no. Not even MS has much to gain from this anymore.
• The JCP will grow and change. As before, big decisions about the future of Java will go through the Java Community Process. However, with more interested developers the ranks of the JCP will grow and change in some very good ways.
• Java will have first class support on Linux, Free-BSD, and other 100% open operating systems. This is huge. Hugely, huge. I'm hoping we'll finally get a KDE look and feel as well.
• NetBeans will open the entire JDK sources all at once. It's true, we're working on it for NetBeans 6. With the new editor infrastructure this will be possible. You might not actually want to do this, but it should be possible if you've got enough memory.
• We will see lots of small crazy experimental versions of Java that add different things. Imagine a JDK with Find Bugs, MySQL, SwingX, JDIC, JInput, JOGL, Java3D, Tritonus MP3, jSDL, KDE-Java, Gnome-Java and a bunch of other cool libraries pre-integrated. We might even see an entire downloadable VMWare virtual harddrive with Ubuntu + Super JDK + NetBeans preinstalled for the ultimate prefab development environment.
• More adoption of Looking Glass. Now that Java can be freely run on Linux desktops out of the box, there is incentive to ship Looking Glass bundled in with the OS. There's a lot of good 3D cards out there. Let's use'em!
• More 3D Java Games for all platforms. I expect that people will start shipping an optimized copy of Java embedded in their applications. The end user will never need to know that Java is involved. JOGL + Java3D is now available for Win, Mac, and any copy of Linux with the right X configuration (which is more common than ever).
• Burnable Java. Imagine a tool that burns a photo slideshow application preloaded with your photos, plus a copy of Java, straight to a CD. Hand the CD to your Mom, she pops it into her computer, and the photo slideshow starts right up. You'll never need to worry about the version of Java because it's shipped with your app. You don't need to worry about the OS because you code against Java, not against native APIs. (hmm. perhaps 'burnable java' isn't the right name for this. :)
• Java will grow to fill every available computing niche and finally achieve the goal of total world domination.

Okay, so maybe that last one is a stretch, but it's true that this will help to bring More Java to More Places."

Gimp 2.4 is available

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Published on Monday, 26 November 2007 18:59

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 GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages (77).

Version 2.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program is now available.

The release note contains the list of new features and some nice screenshots. You can download this semi professional tool at no charge

GIMP  run on any NT-based version of Windows (NT4, 2000, XP or Vista download HERE), and also on Macintosh  (download HERE)
Windows binary can be grab here while linux version are available at the main site

Some useful links to finish this small blog post GIMP Documentation

Raspberry Pi model B

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Published on Tuesday, 19 February 2013 20:39

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Some notes about my experience using the Raspberry Pi model B…and you get it running Linux Debian on it!

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming.

[…]

We don’t think that the Raspberry Pi is a fix to all of the world’s computing issues; we do believe that we can be a catalyst. We want to see cheap, accessible, programmable computers everywhere; we actively encourage other companies to clone what we’re doing. We want to break the paradigm where without spending hundreds of pounds on a PC, families can’t use the internet. We want owning a truly personal computer to be normal for children. We think that 2012 is going to be a very exciting year. [About Raspberry PI]

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A desktop review

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Published on Thursday, 26 August 2004 00:00

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SUSE 9.1
a desktop review
installing and/or migration to Linux SuSE 9.1

WORK IN PROGRESS, running SuSE 9.1 since tuesday 11 May 2004....
SuSE 9.1 soon running on compaq nx7000 notebook

Test system:

One more time, here is my system, The Linux experience you will have is very depending on hardware (and also drivers).....

What does SuSE 9.1 brings?

I wont go through the list of changes and goodies shipped in this release since SuSE itself has also a great page HERE (professional edition) and HERE (personal edition). Note that SuSE is selling at a very attracting price the personal edition (49$) with limited server capabilities and no commercial programs.

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Migration from 9.0 to SuSE 9.1

This time I retrieve the SuSE professional DVD from colleague and did not buy it, as I prefer to wait for another major release. But wait this is a major release of Linux, I think that the release number is really not so well adequate and do not reveal the number of changes does both in kernel (2.6) and desktop (kde 3.2)

If you copy the DVD, You will get no support from SuSE directly (but you will always find help on internet), also a great help section is provided in electronic format, downside it wont be readable without a working SuSE.. FTP online update is due around the 6 June 2004....

Since I have a running version of Linux, I decide this time to update the previous SuSE 9.0 through the YaST menu (Boot and choose Update System), after 21 min update, I was booting into my new desktop with my old settings. The boot time seems to take forever, it "SEEMS" to me that it is a loooot slower.

With this version, SuSE and Novell are now showing us their commitment to the open source community and have also GNU their famous configuration tool: YaST. This is also a strategical move since they want that the maximal number of third companies develop new modules for it (IBM, ....). That is a good news since a lot of people always complains on the licensing scheme of YaST. In the meantime, YaST is now a lot more polished...understand the ubiquity of the YaST logo and eye candy colors. Even the installation process has been redesigned with fancy graphics.

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Coming from Windows?

- In order to help users to make the transition to Linux, drives (in Linux world, it is better to say devices) are a now stored under the famous icons "My Computer" and mount a lot more faster than under the 9.0. I only regret that the system choose so bad name as default (Is it needed to display a cryptic UUID in the name of devices????).

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- Dual Booting Windows and SuSE is as easier as before, and has not changed. the boot loader grub with its fancy colors is a lot better than M$ one. That should at least convince You to make a try ;-)

- SuSe is now earlier hiding, during the boot, all ouput statements done by the kernel. I must agree that nearly no one can understand all barbarians technical terms, I still recommend to press sometimes the key 'F2' to newbies, seeing if a devices did not init. may be valuable under certains conditions. (mainly hardware crash)

- the most disturbing things for a newcomer is that you do not need to double click on folder or file to do an action, to approach the windows phylosophy, go the KDE control panel, in  "peripherals", "mouse", and checked the radio button "Double-click to open files and folders (select icons on first click)". Maybe SuSE should set this as default...

- During installation, the auto login feature is checked as default. Forget this bad windows habit. If SuSe is already login the system automatically, start YaST, in "security", "Edit and create groups", select your user and click on button "Expert Options" and select "login settings", uncheck "auto login". Remember security come at a cost.

What I dislikes

• I was one more time catch by the death black screen, (I must be really dumb because that is the second time ) the autodetection of monitor (my SAMSUNG 191N was detected as SAMSUNG 4N) lead to a black screen, Maybe SuSE, should always test (with SAX2, the graphical display adapter cntrol panel of course) what it has autodetect and ask the user to confirm the detected settings.
• Icons in the taskbar are a little bit oversized as default, bigger and it look like a desktop for kids who need to click on big icons in order not to click beside :-)
• DVD playback is still not working (but in Knoppix, and Lindows it is), one more time You will have to hunt for the library libdvdcss2 (packman is no more providing binary rpm, you must compile them now due to a change in germany).
  Here you can find a tutorial and ALL library for XINE (with libdvdcss2) Daily xine RPMS
• Since SuSE is a big supporter of Reiserfs, why not providing a graphical tool for repairing devices? with a expert system? one more time typing some cryptic commands may discourage a lot of users.
• Impossible to write on NTFS drive, I have not found any captive rpm for SuSE 9.1.
• Packages conflicts....why not embeding apt-rpm? or providing always package statically compiled in order to avoid dependancies?

What I like

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• KDE 3.2.2 with its speed blow away any previous release, and is alone worth the upgrade (But You can update SuSE 9.0 to KDE 3.2 through FTP, easy to do but then you lose the online SuSEwatcher tool and new patches).. KDE 3.3 should be available in August 2004
• The default walpaper is a lot nicer and the desktop control panel is a lot more polished too.
• A up to date JDK 1.4.2.02 is also installed as default. Nice if you plan to use java base applications like eclipse, jedit or set P2P Freenet node
• Using SMB 3.0, it is so fast and so easy to access a windows drive! in comparaison, under M$ XP, the system seem to take forever to locate by IP a share (moreover it freeze your PC :-( during seconds)....
  (example in Konqueror smb://elta68:aJ_zU16B@192.168.0.3/Share1 )
• The kernel 2.6 even if it is running in the background all the time is not as eclatant as KDE, also it didn't have a so big visible effect as KDE speed, windows are poping so fast that it push by a magnitude the pleasure to use this release. The list of online update is quite huge (but not bigger than M$ ;-) ), but that prove the reactivity of Linux and SuSE, I've update at least 50 packages and without any OS restart. Each update has also a brief description, so You know what are the benefit of each updates. A release note is even accessible in the right corner of the screen.
• Since Novell is now bringing its expertise to Linux support, the KDE help center, is showing a better uniformity, colors, fonts and quality of documentation: 2 main sections : Administration guide and user guide. Followed by application manuals, administration; development and online ressources. One major regret: inpossibility to cut and paste some line of text/code in a terminal: copy is not possible!
  
• KDE is highly configurable and without adding any sharewares or using some obscure tweaks, of course: icons, splash screen (as desktop start, a pictures with progression of peripherals detection is shown), fonts, windows decorations and ...wallpapers can be set in kde control panel with a few clicks. Dont forget to visit www.kde-look.org  It is worth the visit!
• Konqueror can now retrieve, copy, rename data on ftp server, I still prefer the default FTP tool KBear /opt/kde3/bin/KBear
  
• I've installed today 17.06.2004 the latest kernel version 2.6.7 with source code, require a restart, but the systeem is running faster since, or at least seems to be faster.

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What I like/dislikes

• The default install provide a lot less user choice: only one chating system (Kopete) instead of the plethore in SuSE 9.0
• No 3D hardware installation as default, you need to complete the installation and then in YaST grab the latest proprietary Nvidia/ATI drivers. It is only annoying.
• YaST warn You of conflicts and dependancies but do not propose a "real" alternative, either "do not install" or "continue with risk of instability", why not:
  • Adding a third possibility: "download the missing dependancy now" or
  • Propose a UUID link on which user can click to locate the ressource (through a UDDI server), normal users don't want to write down the name of some library libdvdcss2 -1.0.6.7 p23.rpm is a pain to retain !
  • Export the list of dependancies to resolves in a new windows to shows You which library are missing, or has been installed in realtime
  • Do nothing an find a better approach...
• The only "GOOD" repositories of RPM are not given by SuSE. (understand full of rpm not approved by companies : dvd support, win32 codecs, ....) but I think this is common to all distributions: without volunteers building rpm, it will be quite difficult to live in a wwhole linux world, or at least at the beginning since not all users want to know how to compile sources versions of their favorite programs.

What I would like to see

• The ability to download any program through YaST (even non free or non supported: codecs, aMule and others), why not like in eclipse having internet page providing a XML descriptor for installing new packages and that YaST can understand?. I mean this can be a great step forward for the average user.

• Better commitments of Nvidia, Linux can be a great playing plattform if hardware manufacturer develop or give some technical help to the community for improving drivers.

Exploring Multimedia capabilities:

• Noatun is no more installed as default, Kaffeine (another interface to the famous XINE multimedia engine) is present but no interesting codecs are installed. Multimedia is, at least for me, UNUSABLE, and you need to quickly install MPLAYER/Kplayer with the full range of codecs if you want to read any DIVX, XVID, Indeo contents... I was searching Kplayer in /opt/kde3/bin/ and in YaST installer, but didnt find it. That's bad! You can find the latest version at sourceforge
  www.sourceforge.net/kplayer

mPlayer running with a special skins

• Inserting a blank CD and K3b pop up and propose You to do your compilation

• Gimp 2.0 is also included with SuSE Linux Professional, this version 2.0 has a new GUI and nicer icons.

preliminary Conclusions

WORK IN PROGRESS, running SuSE 9.1 since tuesday 11 May 2004....

With SuSE 9.1, you get a high quality distributions, and even if all the cons and drawbacks apply to this new release. It is definitely worth the update! Suse is getting even better with every release. Novell buying them has it seems already a positive affect with how the applications are running.

Even if this release is nearly filling all my expectations I am already excited about the future of SuSE, when will the version 10.0 be shipped?

Links

http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ how to set up atp 4 rpm for SuSE.

RPM
http://packman.links2linux.org/
http://rpm.pbone.net/
http://www.suserpms.cjb.net/
http://guru.linuxbe.org/

BeOS

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Published on Tuesday, 31 August 2004 00:00

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BeOS

News and forums

http://www.beosonline.com
http://www.beunited.org/		beunited.org is an international, non-profit organization working to define and promote open specifications for the delivery of the Open Standards BeOS-compatible Operating System (OSBOS) platform for personal computers in consumer and business environments. The mission of beunited.org is to proliferate these open specifications through the sponsorship of technology, market, user education, and support programs throughout the world.
http://www.beosjournal.org		Reporting the news of the BeOS Community
http://www.bebox.nu/		Club of BeBox proud owners
http://www.beosbible.com/
http://www.betips.net/ or in french http://betrayer.free.fr/astuces/index.html

Free Implementations

http://www.cosmoe.com/		Cosmoe is a new user interface that runs on top of the Linux operating system (and soon others). Cosmoe implements a powerful but easy-to-use high-level C++ API that is quite similar to BeOS. In fact, many BeOS programs can be recompiled to run on Cosmoe with little or no changes!
http://www.blueeyedos.com/		BlueEyedOS is a BeOS-inspired operating system powered by a Linux kernel. The BlueEyedOS APIs are BeOS APIs rewritten with some improvements.
http://www.openbeos.org
http://www.yellowtab.com/		YellowTAB formed in order to fill the void created by the demise of Be, Inc., developers of the Be Operating System (short: BeOS) for personal computers. Review here http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3692 and here http://www.beosjournal.org/index.php?ct=r&ru=2003-06-03-zetab5 Why You Should Support YellowTAB's Zeta www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3809

Download

BeOS Free Download
http://www.bedrivers.com/		A website dedicated to BeOS drivers. To both help users find BeOS drivers and to help would-be BeOS driver devs write drivers for new hardware
http://www.beosmax.org/main.php		BeOS 5 PE Max Edition is like BeOS 5 PE a freeware version. It only contains freeware and shareware demos. All the code it contains is legal under the MIT, GPL or LGPL licenses. There is no charge for the actual BeOS, but there can be a charge for the media on which it is written on. (CD Roms cost about 50cents each).
http://www.bebits.com/		Ultimate resource for BeOS software. If there's an application you need, and it exists for the BeOS, then you've got a better chance of finding it here than anywhere else. We've put a ton of effort into making BeBits full-featured and easy to use, so feel free to look around! "Help Support BeBits! We've survived a long time, but advertising alone doesn't pay much these days and we need to pay the bills! So, any donations/tips that you could spare would be greatly appreciated so we can keep the site up and running." more on Donate to Bebits

Killing App

http://pixel32.box.sk/		Pixel32, the powerfull image/animation painting/editing and retouching application available for DOS, Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, Linux, BeOS, QNX and Solaris
http://bekaffe.freeservers.com/		Bringing Java to BeOS

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SuSE 10 and openSuSe 10 are out!

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Published on Friday, 07 October 2005 00:00

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 You can grab the latest SuSE version since the 5 october

So many names but more or less the same...

1. Box version: (buy it in shops) OSS core - licensed applications - commercial limited time applications, technical support - manual
2. Eval version: OSS core - licensed applications
3. OSS: is the OSS core only, if you decide to try this one but feel you can not live without Acrobat (instead of Kpdf), flash, real player, java etc, just add the directory suse/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-GM-Extra/ to YaST (this let you choose in YaST and install the missing package between OSS version and Eval version)

ISO filename explanations:

• SUSE-10.0-CD-i386-GM-CD*.iso 5 CDs i386 for installation from CD-R or from an ftp server with mounted iso images. Other network transfer protocols are available, too.
• SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso Same content as CDs on one DVD
• SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-x86_64-GM.iso Same packages for x86-64 as one the DVD above
• SUSE-10.0-LiveDVD.iso   Live DVD, boot from it and enjoy SUSE Linux without actually installing it (no data written to disk)

Download! Download! Download!

• ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/10.0/
• Bittorent SuSE 10.0 DVD 32 bits
• Bittorent SuSE 10.0 DVD 64 bits

Yast Supplemental sources for

• Kde: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_10.0/yast-source
• Gnome ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/GNOME/update_for_10.0/yast-source 

3rd party repositories:

• ftp.packman.iu-bremen.de/suse/10.0
• ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.0 (guru)
• http://pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/~schiele/suse/10.0 (Robert Schiele)
• http://opensuse.linux.co.nz/apt/suser-agirardet/10.0 (super)
• ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/usr-local-bin/10.0  (usr local bin)
• ftp.gwdg.de/linux/misc/suser-crauch/10.0  (GnuCash)

More soon, I will be updating 3 PC this week (ladtop, 2 desktops)

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KDE 10th anniversary

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Published on Sunday, 15 October 2006 18:32

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