Andreas Jaeger sent an email to the openSUSE mailing list last night to announce that the new version of openSUSE Linux, that is, version 10.2 has gone gold and is ready for release. Our build folks have created the first...
Tags: 10.2 · 2.6.19 · ext3 · ext4 · kernel · linux · opensuse · reiser · suse linux
Posted by Daniel Stout on December 2, 2006 10:12 AM · Permalink
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
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
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
Interesting article over at DesktopLinux.com by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols entitled The state of the 2006 Linux desktop. He notes a sudden rise of people running Linux on their laptops over the summer. My unscientific survey revealed that about a third...
Tags: desktop linux · fedora · freespire · linux · red hat · suse linux · ubuntu
Posted by Daniel Stout on August 21, 2006 6:56 AM · Permalink
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
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
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
Manufactured Environments is an active, living site. I'm often looking for better and newer ways to code things on the site. I made three tweaks to the site today that I wanted to give you the lowdown (down low?) on....
Tags: archives · fonts · linux · rss · suse linux · tags · technorati
Posted by Daniel Stout on July 22, 2006 6:36 PM · Permalink
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
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
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
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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