You may already have seen it, but it’s worth recommending: IEs4Linux is excellent resource, allowing you to run IE6 (and, if you choose, 5.5 and 5) on Linux. Worked perfectly for me first time, that’s running Ubuntu Feisty.
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You may already have seen it, but it’s worth recommending: IEs4Linux is excellent resource, allowing you to run IE6 (and, if you choose, 5.5 and 5) on Linux. Worked perfectly for me first time, that’s running Ubuntu Feisty.
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Why does this news that Canonical and Linspire are “teaming up” for future Linux distribution, put me so much in mind of this Penny Arcade strip?
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Metisse describes itself as “not focused on a particular kind of interaction (e.g. 3D) and should not be seen as a new desktop proposal. It is rather a tool for creating new types of desktop environments.” It’s project page is also very keen to stress that it is “not a 3D desktop.” Check out the videos for this, it looks extremely promising.
The work will be made part of Mandriva Spring 2007, and Mandriva already has a page for them.
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WiiLi is a site with the long-term goal of running Linux on the Nintendo Wii. Of course, this is an inevitability, Linux will eventually be run on everything, but I think WiiLi is notable for it’s humble approach:
They’re building a live cd for the pc allowing users to use the peripherals, then aiming to port the whole thing to the Wii. This seems like a much more sane method than just jumping in there and trying to run code on the hardware. |
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I’ve been taking a great interest in either using my PC as, or building my own, PVR. Naturally, I would prefer to use Linux for this purpose, and so my attention had been drawn recently to MythTV, but now Elisa has caught my eye. It’s rather immature right now, but the plans for it sound great - with VoIP/videoconferencing as a core feature. With the recent new release of MythTV and the general enthusiasm in this area, I’m reassured that by the time I get around to doing anything for this I’ll be able to :).
Tags: Linux, tv
New Gnome release, haven’t used it yet, but sounds like this is a pretty solid release, mostly bugfixes and GTK+ enhancements.
Interesting:
Metacity has new 3D effects mode. Disabled by default, and doesn’t appear to support any nVidia anyway, but still nice to know someone is thinking about this. Not sure how it relates to XGL.
New power management information. Have been thinking about getting a laptop, this would be helpful.
DVD burning within Nautilus. Handy, but didn’t realise this wasn’t included already.
Orca, screenreader. I have no real use for it, but am always interested in screenreaders (have spent ages playing with festival).
Recursive file permissions dialog. Excellent feature, not sure why it wasn’t included before.
Deskbar. Press Alt-F3 to open the search dialog, simple change, but useful I think.
All that seems worth upgrading for on it’s own. The bigger news really in this release doesn’t concern me much though: Tomboy, Alacarte and Baobab are now included by default, but I’ve been using them for months. Still, sounds like a great release - have to decide whether to upgrade now or wait for Edgy. More likely to wait for at least an RC of Edgy, I’ve been a bit out of the loop on the testing of this one.
Tags: Gnome, Linux
See this MSDN article for a Microsoft solution to the Linux “problem”. Not sure why I find this funny - I think it’s the fact that Linux is dealt with so matter-of-factly, as though Linux were something that an unwitting user had accidently infected their machine with, like some kind of malware…
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Arstechnica recommends that Vista be delayed again in order to improve the quality of the final product. I think people will sympathise with this. Sounds awfully familiar, too.
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Just occasionally the Slashdot comments turn up something insightful. A concise reason why this person uses a Mac (it just works and he’s got work to do.)
N.B. I use Linux near-exclusively (started using XP for work recently), and have done for many years. When Ubuntu 4.10 was released I switched almost instantly, but that doesn’t mean I don’t sympathise with those who have good reasons for preferring other systems - especially OSX users.