Tag Archives: desktop

GNOME 2.22 and other awesome

Somewhat belated celebration of our latest release, but hey, I just wanted to see the release love continue to roll by on all the Planets. Check out Dave’s release linkage for some bricks and whole bunch of bouquets.
Definitely great to see Cheese (of which I am quite the fan) so prominently featured in the release […]

Happiness is a warm cache

If you haven’t celebrated New Year’s in Sydney, you haven’t celebrated New Year’s… and remember, kids, 2008 is the year of Linux on the des — kidding! Happy new year!
Photo courtesy SMH. Click the image for more.

Jinxed again for 2008

“No doubt you’ve heard the prediction before — ‘this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop’. At the risk of being repetitive, though, I’m going to go ahead and say it: 2008 really could be the year of the Linux desktop.” — Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier, Is 2008 the Year of the Linux Desktop?

So if you’re […]

Thank you, Cheese!

Pia & Jeff say thank you to Daniel for Cheese!

GNOME: Ten years of Freedom!

A one month, world-wide celebration of GNOME’s tenth anniversary begins this week, culminating in mid-September with Software Freedom Day and the release of GNOME 2.20.
During the celebration month, GNOME contributors will create a scrapbook wiki recording their ten year history, and a commemorative cookery book with “Open Source” recipes contributed by GNOME community members from around […]

QoTD: Paul Nowak

“Software will increasingly compete on ease of use in the total software experience more than on features. The future will be more about being simple than about any other dimension. […] This is a classic case of experience changing perception and it’s got me to thinking about a seamless platform from server to desktop to […]

GNOME in The 5th Wave

Shreyas noticed that the The 5th Wave’s June 17, 2007 strip includes a homage to GNOME! Rocking!

Update: Melissa points out that UserFriendly was pretty awesome on the 17th too.

Firefox: Still Saving the Web!

Steve Jobs’ vision for the web, rendered as a pie chart.

Safari on Windows

Leopard’s Safari on Windows? Really puts the cat among the foxes.

Looking for a simple GPS receiver

Dear Lazyweb,
I am looking for a simple GPS receiver for my laptop. Ideally, it would disappear into one of the PCMCIA or SD slots, but I am having a tough time finding something like this. Alternatively, if Bluetooth is the only sensible answer, tell me I’m dreaming, and perhaps suggest one that will work well with […]

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