"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."-James Dean
Dec 01
Nineteen days ago I downloaded openSUSE 11.2 Linux and installed it on my backup PC. I was so pleased that I decided to move it to my primary PC and replaced the RC version of Windows 7 and for the last eight days it has been my main system.
The layout of the desktop is very [...]
Nov 23
The title is not exactly correct. What I have done is to replace Windows 7 RC (the last free down loadable Release Candidate of Windows 7) with openSUSE 11.2.
I had been running Windows 7 RC in a dual boot configuration with Windows Vista for a few months. Windows Vista with all of the latest [...]
14 responses so far Linux, Software, Technology, Window's 7, Windows Vista
Nov 12
By the time you read this, openSUSE 11.2 should be released and available to everyone. Yesterday, I found a server in Spain that had already populated its libraries and downloaded the 64-bit KDE Live Cd and installed it on my backup PC,
SUSE’s implementation of KDE 4.3 it much better than the KUBUNTU version I [...]
Nov 10
openSUSE will release version 11.2 on November 12. Linux users, who are KDE advocates, should take a look at openSUSE. While UBUNTU get most of the press, if you like KDE, KUBUNTU usually isn’t as good an implementation.
Most people still think that Linux is only for geeks and to some extent, many versions are. However, [...]
Oct 29
It has been a while since I wrote anything on the Linux releases. Today UBUNTU publishes its 9.10 release. It comes in many versions, Gnome, KDE, as well as several other variants.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning ‘Humanity to others’ and when it came into being, UBUNTU became the leading Linux for novices. It has [...]
Oct 18
There was a recent thread on one of the Yahoo groups about the availability of English language operating system laptops in Panama. I have seen them in the past in some shops in Panama City and occasionally PriceSmart has had some.
Saturday, I was at PriceSmart and looked at what was currently on the shelves. They [...]
5 responses so far Hardware, Panama Journal, Software, Technology
Aug 19
In case you are considering Windows 7 and have a spare hard drive to try it on and a PC capable of running Windows 7, you still have today to download the last Release Candidate.
This is basically the version that has been released for production. I downloaded it and have installed it on a spare [...]
Jul 30
If you are a MAC user and feeling totaly safe on the Internet, don’t get over confident.
http://www.dailytech.com/Another+Major+Mac+Computer+Security+Flaw+Discovered/article15832.htm
Jul 22
I have had a few people tell me they can’t always see the photos as large as they would like in my posts, such as the photo of the menu in the previous post.
If you do not already know, you can hold down the Ctrl key and press the plus sign (+) repeatedly, the display [...]
Jul 20
While I still have more PCs running Linux than any other OS, I became a Windows Vista user because it was installed on the new PC.
With Windows 7 approaching release, there are a lot of questions being asked about the wisdom of upgrading.
Today I read an article in InfoWorld, which tells me that staying with [...]
