IBM recently announced they are pairing up with Cannonical and Red Hat to develop a Windows 7 alternative (see “IBM Client for Smart Work“). This pairing makes perfect sense as IBM has been a supporter of open source and Linux for some time now. Not only that but IBM released their office suite, Lotus Symphony, [...]

Tags: cloud computing, ibm, lotus, smart work, symphony, windows alternative
Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Mobile Computing, companies, software

I’m sure by now everyone here knows about Hulu. If not, Hulu is a rather huge collection of television programs that can be viewed on line, for free, with few commercial interruptions. It’s brilliant. You can watch old reruns of What’s Happenin? or Mork and Mindy or Alf! Yes, Alf! But many of you may [...]

Tags: hulu, movies, multi-media, television
Categories: Browsing, Desktop Manager, Entertainment, Linux, Music and Video, The Web, software

In my most recent article “Five ways to ease the migration from Windows to Linux” I examined how you can help new users make the migration from Windows to Linux easier. Most know the very philosophies behind both of those operating systems are very different. Because of that, many often need a bit of hand-holding in order [...]

Tags: mac, mac to linux, os x, os x to linux
Categories: Advice, Apple, Desktop Manager, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Open Source, Operating Systems, software

With the ever-maturation of the Linux operating system there are more and more people considering a migration from their operating system of choice to the flagship of the open source community. For many this migration is a strange, but simple adventure. For others, however, the task is very daunting and one challenge after another. What [...]

Tags: linux adoption, migration, Windows to Linux
Categories: Advice, Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Windows, firefox

In my recent trend of covering Linux backup tools I have, so far, covered Flyback (”Quick and easy backups with Flyback“) and Backerupper (”Simple gui backup tool Backerupper“). Both tools are GUI tools that make the process of backing up your Linux files and folders a simple task. This time around I want to add [...]

Tags: auto backups, backups, cron, desktop backup
Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

In my last article I covered the backup GUI Flyback (”Quick and easy backups with Flyback“.) Although it seems development has stopped for that tool, it is still a viable solution. Does that mean it’s the best solution? No. There are far better GUI tools for easy desktop backup. One of those tools is Backerupper. Backerupper is [...]

Tags: backup, desktop backup, GNOME backup
Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

Of all the Linux distributions, the consensus is beginning to become clear that Ubuntu is, hands down, the most user friendly of the Linux distributions. Naturally there are people that claim other distributions like PCLinuxOS, and Linux Mint are even more user-friendly than Ubuntu. But what exactly makes a Linux distribution user-friendly?
I have been using Linux [...]

Tags: desktop, end user, Linux, ubuntu, user friendly
Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, ask the readers