Entries tagged with “suse” 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
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...
Tags: desktop publishing · linux · open source · opensuse · pdfcast · scribus · suse
Posted by Daniel Stout on April 8, 2007 3:52 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
The fair shake: Ubuntu vs. SUSE Linux
I hadn't really given Ubuntu a fair shake the last time I looked at it. I decided to go another round with Ubuntu to see what it was all about. Ubuntu, as you may know, is a flavor of Linux,...
Tags: dapper drake · linux · suse · suse linux · ubuntu
Posted by Daniel Stout on October 25, 2006 8:06 PM · Permalink
Get the desktop of the future now with Xgl and Compiz
Ever since I installed SUSE Linux 10.1, I've heard rumblings from here and there about something cool called Xgl. I wondered what all the buzz was about. It had something to do with translucency, effects, spinning cubes. Well, I installed...
Tags: apple · ati · chris brown · compiz · linux · nvidia · opengl · opensuse · suse · suse linux · transparency · xgl
Posted by Daniel Stout on September 14, 2006 8:23 PM · Permalink
The biggest mistake you can make if you’re new to Linux
I'll be the first to admit that Linux appeals to the technically inclined. It also appeals to people who believe in the freedom of ideas. People are cruising along on their Mac OS X laptop or their Windows box, and...
Tags: linux · linux documentation project · mac os x · poweruser · suse · suse linux · switch · ubuntu · windows
Posted by Daniel Stout on September 8, 2006 9:05 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
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...
Tags: developers · linux · open source · planet suse · suse · suse linux
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 1, 2006 7:08 AM · Permalink
An O’Reilly book on SUSE Linux? Indeed!
There are a variety of books out there for SUSE Linux, but it's only just now that legendary tech publisher O'Reilly has chimed in with a title of its own. SUSE Linux: A Complete Guide to Novell's Community Distribution...
Tags: books · chris brown · linux · o'reilly · suse · suse linux
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 25, 2006 6:56 AM · Permalink
Geeks Gone Bad: Switching from Mac OS X to Linux
You'll first note my lengthy and highly entertaining post from December 2005 entitled Celebrity Deathmatch: Windows XP vs SUSE Linux. In that article, I talked about my switch from Mac OS X and Windows XP over to SUSE Linux...
Tags: linux · mac os x · opensuse · suse · suse linux · ubuntu · windows xp
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 19, 2006 9:26 PM · Permalink
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...
Tags: 10.1 · desktop linux · linux · novell · open-source · opensuse · oss · suse · suse linux
Posted by Daniel Stout on May 10, 2006 7:23 PM · Permalink
Why choose Linux over Windows?
Often when I'm walking down the street, people come up to me and say, "Dan, I've been afraid to try Linux. Robert Scoble has me whipped. I've been using Windows for so long, I don't know anything else." It...
Tags: grub · half-life2 · linux · microsoft · novell · opensuse · suse · suse linux · ubuntu · windows · winxp
Posted by Daniel Stout on February 11, 2006 10:23 PM · 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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