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I Go With MeeGo!

Only time will tell what the market impact of the formation of MeeGo from the merger of Nokia’s Maemo and Intel’s Moblin projects will be. But for the moment, it clearly appeals to me as a developer far more than the iPhone or Android platforms have.  So I have joined the MeeGo site – look [...]

Getting Started With Linux - the openSUSE Education Li-f-e Live DVD

I recently wrote two articles on getting started with Linux, featuring the openSUSE Education Linux for Education (Li-f-e) Live DVD. The first is called Best Linux software for new users, and the second is called The best Linux games for kids. Both are now available on the DownloadSquad blog. Comments are enabled on the DownloadSquad [...]

Appliances for Algorithmic Composition, Synthesis and Video Editing

As you know if you’ve been watching my other sites or Twitter, I have spent the past few weeks in a shakedown cruise on openSUSE 11.2. You can see the details here and here. I’m still doing a lot of testing on the main algorithmic composition appliance, but I expect to have a release ready [...]

Top Five Open Source Projects of 2009

Every year, I single out what I think are the Top Five open source projects. This year, there’s only one hold-over from previous years, and it’s likely that I’m just going to give it a Lifetime Achievement Award and pick five others next year.

5. NetBeans

NetBeans is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It’s a comprehensive tool [...]

What's the Best Version of Linux?

Full disclosure: the following represents my personal opinion, based on nearly ten years of hands-on experience with most of the major versions of Linux. I am not now employed by any entity with any financial stake in Linux products or services, nor have any entities of that nature supported this blog post in any way, [...]

Coming Soon: SMART@znmeb 0.5!

There’s been quite a bit going on here at the Bar Nothing Ranch, and the SMART@znmeb project is no exception. I’m pushing towards release 0.5. I don’t have an exact date yet, because I don’t know how long it will take me to update the SUSE Studio processing to the openSUSE 11.2 repositories after they [...]

First Impressions of openSUSE 11.2

I’ve been testing openSUSE 11.2 for the past couple of months. Now that Release Candidate 1 is available, with the final feature set and look and feel, I’ll share my impressions.

Look and Feel

The thing I like most about openSUSE is that the developers have gone to great lengths to enhance the Linux desktop experience. Whether [...]