Manufactured Environments by Daniel Stout

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Maltese Cross Where have you been all my life, Scribus?

I was looking at this entry over on Vichar's Linux blog and was amazed. It's basically a list of a lot of open source alternatives to proprietary software. It's a very excellent list, and the software listed there is...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on April 8, 2007 3:52 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Glyn’s modest proposal

Glyn Moody has A Modest Proposal for Michael Dell. Dell recently launched a site called IdeaStorm that's based on the idea of user interaction. Like Digg, people can submit ideas to the site, and then people place votes on the...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on March 4, 2007 10:01 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross 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....

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Posted by Daniel Stout on December 7, 2006 8:02 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross 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...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on August 30, 2006 10:13 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross 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...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on August 19, 2006 1:06 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross Planet SUSE: Keeping up with the geeks

You all know my love for SUSE Linux. It's my platform of choice. I'm glad too that Novell has switched the default install to Gnome from KDE. As I've said before, KDE is like running a Windows clone. Why...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on August 1, 2006 7:08 AM · Permalink

Maltese Cross OpenDarwin shuts down: Mac OS X still proprietary

When Apple first released Mac OS X in 2000, they had the goal of seeding the operating system in open source style. The Darwin project released, and continues to release, the foundations for Mac OS X under an open source...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on July 25, 2006 9:25 PM · Permalink

Maltese Cross SUSE Linux 10.1 to be released tomorrow

openSUSE has the scoop: SUSE Linux 10.1 is due to be released tomorrow. There are two varieties that you can download for free or buy. There's SUSE Linux 10.1 the commercial product from Novell costing $59.99. And then there...

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Posted by Daniel Stout on May 10, 2006 7:23 PM · Permalink

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