Entries tagged with “gnome” from Manufactured Environments
The best of all possible fonts: Subpixel hinting on openSUSE
As an openSUSE Linux user and a budding typographer, I'm always interested in ways to make screen-rendered text more legible. You may have a similar obsession with the clarity of text. Or maybe I'm the only person this side of...
Tags: fonts · freetype2 · gnome · kde · linux · opensuse · suse
Posted by Daniel Stout on May 10, 2007 7:47 PM · Permalink
openSUSE 10.2 released
Well, the new version of openSUSE has been released. It's version 10.2, and initial word is that it's great. You can download the entire operating system and applications as a single DVD image or 5 + 1 CDs here....
Tags: 10.2 · ext3 · gnome · kde · open source · opensuse · release · suse
Posted by Daniel Stout on December 7, 2006 8:02 AM · Permalink
Taking Ubuntu to a Higher Power
Have you been feeling the blues lately? Been feeling like your life has no direction? Ask yourself this question: What OS would Jesus use? Why, Ubuntu Christian Edition! That's right. If you think there isn't enough spiritual firepower in...
Tags: gnome · gnomesword · ichthux · kde · linux · open source · ubuntu · ubuntu christian edition
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 30, 2006 10:13 PM · Permalink
Linux is Beautiful, or Why Robert Scoble Needs to Take Another Look
Robert Scoble wrote an entry about what he sees as a reason Linux won't be adopted by the masses as their desktop operating system: the fonts. I couldn't disagree more with him. I'm looking at Gnome via SUSE Linux 10.1...
Tags: fonts · gnome · linux · microsoft · open source · open suse · robert scoble · scoble · suse · suse linux · typography · vista · windows
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 19, 2006 1:06 AM · Permalink
Celebrity Deathmatch: Windows XP vs SUSE Linux
Long before there was Windows XP. Long before there was Windows 95. There was an operating system that rose up out of the Finnish primordial ooze. A young man named Linus Torvalds had the pluck to want to write his...
Tags: cleartype · debian · desktop linux · fedora · gcc · gnome · gnu · linus torvalds · linux · mac os x · microsoft · novell · opensuse · red hat · suse · suse linux · windows · winxp
Posted by Daniel Stout on December 25, 2005 5:39 PM · Permalink
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