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Seattle Times Reviews Desktop Linux Distros

Posted by timothy on from the are-we-there-yet dept.

prostoalex writes "Seattle Times section on Personal Technology compares Xandros and Lindows as two alternatives to Windows for desktop computing. Their verdict: installation - excellent; OpenOffice - good enough; digital cameras, printers and other peripherals - excellent; CD burning - no problems; video playback - could be better (with more progress bars and support for Apple's formats); digital camcorders - poor; burning audio CDs - poor; Net access and Web browsing - no problems."

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  1. Gnome 2.6 beta 1 released by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In related desktop linux news, Gnome 2.6 beta 1 has just been released. Its got that new file dialog that everyone has been waiting for, so go and get it!

    full details here

  2. Enquiring minds want to know..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All I wonder, is how Billy likes others playing in his back yard?

  3. Integration with windows by TheScorpion420 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I had absoultely no problem connecting my Linux box to my parents windows machine, but the funny part is I had problems connecting another windows machine to my parents PC. Hmm isn't that something. . .

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  4. It makes you... by el-spectre · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bogus!

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  5. Slashdot rendering by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anyone else have problems with Slashdot failing to render properly like >50% of the time with Firefox? I always have to reload the goddamned front page once or twice, lest everything be pushed off to the side.

    I'm using Firefox on Linux and OS X, and it happens on both. Remember that story a few months back about the modern, compliant XHTML 4.whatever rewrite of the front page? Too bad that never got implemented. Guess Malda gave up on improving slashcode years ago.

    Hey, it's Monday morning and I love to bitch. Seriously, though, the whole slashdot user experience is starting to suck ass.

  6. Re:Partioning by p_millipede · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Feel free to mod me down for going off topic and ranting on - and misspelling the second word in my post!

    I think the NTFS partiton was actuall only 8GB, since this was a 30GB disc and the above totals to around 32. :)

  7. Re:What about Gaming? by Greyfox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the past week I've talked to 4 Windows users I know whose systems have become infected with worms or spyware. I tell them that Linux is much less succeptable to those and they laugh and say "Yeah but it won't run all my games." And that's just people I know. And some of these people have complained at great length about the cost of a Windows upgrade too (Oddly enough I never hear them complaining about the cost of those games...)

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