The fracture between Canonical (the company that brought Ubuntu on to the mainstream) and the team developing the Gnome desktop resulted in the so-called Unity desktop that is now part of the basic Ubuntu distribution. However, many users (including me), shun the Unity desktop for being bloated and slow. Gnome 2 works better but looks [...]
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This tutorial shows how to install your Edimax EW-7711lN WiFi PCI card on Ubuntu Natty Narwhal 11.04 under Unity. In my case, I used the x86 distribution installed from an USB drive. However, this tutorial should apply to any current Linux distro that is able to compile C code (do a "make"). Tested on: Ubuntu [...]
Tablet vs Netbook has been the new “Chuck Norris vs Bruce Lee” type question ever since Microsoft advertised the tablet PC concept back in the day. For once, Microsoft was ahead of its time. In a reversal of the old Windows vs Mac dispute when Bill Gates pulled the rug from underneath Steve Jobs, it [...]
That Microsoft Windows is dated is not longer something thrown in by Apple fanbois to start a flame war on forums. It has become a fact proven by the sharp decline of the Windows brand on computing devices. Setting Apple aside as closed system integrating hardware and software, the Linux world has delivered a heavy [...]
