Ubuntu 8.10 has been installed on my computer for over two weeks now. The tests began with beta version through RC and finished with the final release today. Usually I do not install test versions, however, favourable opinions of my friends convinced me it was worth trying. I have to admit, I am not disappointed [...]
Archive October, 2008
KDE4 apps: digiKam
[ Tuesday, 28 October 2008, Tomasz Dudzik ]
DigiKam is an application to manage your digital photos professionally, with a claim of: “Manage your photographs like a professional, with the power of Open Source”.
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KDE4 apps: Gwenview
[ Thursday, 23 October 2008, Tomasz Dudzik ]
Reading through comments of an article featured on the jakilinux.org site I’ve stumbled upon somebody complaining that Gwenview is underexposed. Let’s take it on then, using a SVN pullout for KDE4.
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Review: Pioneer Dreambook Light IL1
[ Monday, 20 October 2008, obi_gl ]
Cheap notebooks with preinstalled Linux distributions conquer Western markets. Polish hardware distributors did notice it and one of them launched a new subnotebook in the Polish market. They call it: Airis I-Design IL-1 Nanobook.
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Quick Look at KDE 4.2-SVN
[ Thursday, 16 October 2008, riklaunim ]
As the work on KDE 4.2 turns out to be on quite an advanced stage, I’ve decided to test the current development version. For the purpose of this test I used the Archlinux distribution, that features the KDE 4.2-SVN packages repository. It is just enough to add appropriate entries into pacman.conf at the top of [...]
Yakuake — yet another pop-up terminal
[ Monday, 13 October 2008, Adrianot ]
Meet Yakuake, another pop-up terminal program. Contrary to Tilda (which I have covered recently), the Yakuake is the renowned and appreciated one. It supports many features - like tabs - which serve not only as eye candy.
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OpenOffice.org in the City of Katowice, Poland
[ Saturday, 4 October 2008, michuk ]
We have begun this series of articles focusing on Free Software deployments in Polish government departments with the article OpenOffice.org in Łeba. Today we are introducing yet another example of a well-done implementation of OpenOffice.org, in Town Council of Katowice.
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