One of the ways of making command line more usable is by providing auto-completion. It is a non-intrusive way of freeing the user from the burden of remembering options. Bash provides something called programmable completion which can be extended for your own applications. [Continue]
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The Unique Feature Of My Linux Box
What unique thing does my Linux box do that makes other OS jealous? The biggest feature that my Linux box offers is choice, and that helps me grab many more. This choice is not limited to desktop applications like editors or browsers or media players or email clients, it also works for desktop environments, window managers, sound daemons, firewalls, right down to a specific kernel version, even my own. [Continue]
Intel Hands Moblin Over To The Linux Foundation
Intel has turned over Moblin, an OS for mobile devices, to the Linux Foundation. Andy Updegrove has a nice round up, and explains why it might be better for Moblin to be governed by a neutral body. As a mobile user, I am waiting for the tight coupling between mobile hardware and mobile software to break. [Continue]
Recession Might Make This The Year Of Linux Desktop
The recession might bring an accelerated adoption of Linux, IDC survey says (pdf). Of course, as Andy Updegrove says, this is something good coming out of the bad times. I expected to see results like these to come out during economic downturns, because even today cost is seen as the biggest factor in favour of Linux. [Continue]
Will Google Chrome Be Late?
Google Chrome have decided to go with Gtk+ for the Linux version. However you still see mentions of Qt in the developers mailing list. I too had wondered the same after Qt went LGPL. [Continue]
The 1234567890 Day
It will be 1234567890 day this weekend. That is, we will get 1234567890 seconds old since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on Jan 1 1970), on Friday, Feb 13 2009 at 3:31:30 PM PST, which is Saturday, Feb 14 2009 5:01:30 AM Indian time. On most of the Unix systems you can find out your local time for this Unix time using date -d@1234567890. [Continue]
Linux, Without Command Line
What do you think of Linux minus the command line? HP Mini Mi is the netbook powered with Linux, sans command line. The general efforts of making Linux more usable seem to be going against the command line. [Continue]
Linux Education Is The Key To Popularity
Ryan Paul reports that Linux notebooks have not been a hit with the consumer world. They have a higher return rate than the Windows counterparts. And the reasons cited hover around hardware compatibility and usability problems. [Continue]
The Only Way To Not Copy Windows Is Educate
Bob Sutor, VP of open source and standards at IBM, has advice for Linux developers - do not copy Windows. True, I fully agree with him, Linux can be better than Windows only by being different. However, it is a tricky situation for people who want to lead people to migrate to Linux. [Continue]
Trying Out XFCE
I have been a KDE loyal for quite some years now. I had first taken to it on Solaris, and since then nothing else has worked for me. However, now I am trying out XFCE for some reasons. [Continue]
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