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  1. Apple announce new iPhone

    in Portal News

    Posted · Edited by Darkelve

    Here's why I think the iPhone will be a good thing for (embedded) Linux.

     

    Mobile Phone companies are very competitive. They generally don't like surprises

    like this one. If it can deliver, than the iPhone will be important competition to

    the mobile phone maker's own similar products. The iPhone as it is demo-ed right now

    looks like it's unlike any other phone. And the patents, although I don't like (software)

    patents, will block competitors from making products that are too similar.

     

    So they'll have to come up with a reply (probably already are) and for this they need

    something that is highly flexible and full-featured. And Linux certainly meets those

    requirements. I doubt WinCE will cut it.

     

    So maybe in the future we might see some Linux-based 'smart' phones that actually look good.

    This is much speculation on my part, but I can see it happening. The competitors in the mobile phone

    market need to respond in some way.

  4. Interest in a magazine for Linux newbies - by us

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    I wanted to ask if there is any interest in a magazine by Linux users, for Linux newbies (people new to Linux).

     

    Since Tuxmagazine will not be free anymore, I think that created a void that should best be filled as soon as possible. Also, Tuxmagazine was good, but could use improvement as well. For example TuxMagazine didn't have any Gnome coverage at all. And even though I'm a KDE user, I think that's a shame.

     

    But before starting on anything, I would like to poll the members of some forums:

     

    - are you interested in such a magazine

    - would you willing to contribute and if so, how? (and how regularly)

     

    Some goals for the magazine (I'm just brainstorming):

     

    - frequent: at least bi-monthly

    - unbiased: Gnome & KDE, vi & emacs :P

    - sustainable: should be relatively easy to transfer tasks to other persons if this is really necessary

    - focus on the end user: the total newbie and the more experience "Linux n00b"

    - a number of recurring popular features (e.g. distro reviews)

    - freely downloadable

    - collaboration between different forums/distro users

     

    Your thoughts and opinions are very welcome!

     

     

    Darkelve

  5. My New Website!

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by Darkelve

    Ah yes, I'll add that little nugget now :)

     

    EDIT:

     

    OK, added that now :P

     

    I'll get the banner done sometime soon. I figured I'll get some content first before I start bothering too much about the cosmetic side ;)

     

    Great!

    (by the way, that banner IS content :P)

     

    Oh, and you can code a list like this (ul means 'unordered list'):

     

    <ul>
<li>item 1 of the list</li>
<li>item 2 of the list</li>
<li>item 3 of the list</li>
<li>...</li>
</ul>

     

    In your WYSIWIG program, there should be an icon with (a) bullet(s) on it, use that to make a list. You will get a marker before each one of your list items, and it's easier to read because the list marker separates all the items.

     

    For ordered lists, its "ol" instead of "ul" and in your WYSIWIG there should be a button with (a) number(s) on it.

     

    I saw that you didn't on this page:

    http://linuxsolutions.org/index.php?option...4&Itemid=26

     

    Of course, you use unordered lists when the order doesn't matter, and ordered when the order matters e.g. because one has to be done before the other.

  9. My New Website!

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by Darkelve

    Some quick points:

     

    - Your menu is a bit small if I enlarge the text. Try to make the container for it a bit bigger/wider.

     

    - You need a header for your website (in the empty area above) with a byline telling who your site is for and what it does. For example the http://www.xandros.com/]Xandros website[/url] is a nice example: "Xandros - Making Linux work for you", but in their site the header and byline are too far apart. Ideally this is also a link back to the homepage on every page (except for the homepage itself)

     

    - It is great that you offer a "Latest Updates" summary right on your homepage. Very good habit to do.

     

    - You need to structure your texts a bit more. Nearly none of your visitors will start reading the text immediately. Most people scan it. Meaning they jump with their eyes from one point of interest to the other (menus, headings, lists, ... )

     

    Be concrete and to the point. Work with subheadings and lists. Use whitespace (your doing it already). Stuff like that.

     

    For example I rewrote your homepage a little bit (I'm not saying this is the perfect text, should be more scannable though):

     

    Welcome to Linux Solutions

     

    Goals of this website

    Linux Solutions is my personal website that offers frequently updated FAQ's and interesting news about Linux distro's and software.

     

    I hope you enjoy the content on the site and find it informative and useful. I shall be adding more and more to the site as it develops further and as my knowledge grows!

     

    My background

    My first experience with Linux

    My first experience of Linux came in about 1998, when I installed Mandrake Linux 7.2 on my machine at home. I think I had it for a few days, because at that time, I didn't have the time to try and learn it fully, so ended up going back to Windows full time, and removed Mandrake from my system.

    Further Linux experience - biting the bullet

    Then back in February 2005, I decided to make a more concerted effort to use Linux completely. I installed Mandrake 10.0 Official, as Mandrake was something I had briefly used before, so thought it would be a good starting point for me. Since then, I've had Mandrake 10.1 Official, Mandriva LE2005, and 2006 on my systems. Now I'm using Mandriva 2007 on all my systems at home.

     

    What I use at home

    My work systems tend to be a mixture. My laptop is currently running Mandriva 2007. My desktop system is running Fedora Core 6. My VMware Server is running CentOS 4.4 and my email server is running Gentoo 2006.1.

     

    Other distributions that I use are Red Hat, Arch Linux, Debian and Slackware.

     

    Learning something new every day

    I've gained considerable knowledge in the last year or two, now that I use Linux solely on my systems. But not only that, from my job as well, which has helped in acquiring knowledge on various different distributions as well as getting to a higher level of understanding quicker. I'm due to be Red Hat Certified in the near future, of which I'm waiting for my course and exam for RHCE :-)

     

    You can see the headings and sub-headings plus I've reordered it a little bit.

     

    "LinuxSolutions.org has been active since 1 September 2006."

     

    Maybe if there is more of this information you'll need an "About Us" section?

  11. OpenSUSE 10.2 is ready

    in Portal News

    Posted

    Let's just judge OpenSuSe on its merits for now, not on emotional/ethical/... arguments. OpenSuSe is not identical

    to the commercial offerings of Novell, although I do realize

    they have a lot of impact on it.

     

    Besides, this release can't really have all that much "M$ IP" in it, now can it? Maybe this is the last SuSe I will try out as well, I'm not sure, but for now I'm just interested to see how good/bad 10.2 turned out to be.

  12. Ulteo Linux

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    It's because there are other webbased operating systems out there, and most of those actually do not work (well). It is understandable that people will compare a product they never saw, with products similar to it that are already out there.

     

    Personally I'm curious, but having tried other webbased OS'es I hope it's more efficient.

  14. Postal Fudge Pack!

    in Portal News

    Posted · Edited by Darkelve

    Willis?

     

    Anyway, Wine has come so far as to play a number of recent titles (even if they have 3D) either "out of the box", or with some additional configuration (patch/crack/copying of some files, ...)

     

    Dreamfall, as I reported, works with a crack and some extra configuration... not perfectly, but it's playable although with a crash every now and then (and it looks really good too).

     

    Today, I was surprised to find that "Secret Files: Tunguska", works under Wine without any extra configuration (except for a crack to get around the copy protection, which wine has difficulty handling).

     

    :luv: Wine

  15. ipod nano and Mandriva

    in Everything Linux

    Posted · Edited by Darkelve

    I have a Nano, 4th generation (1 generation "before" the new, 5-colored ones)... Amarok works good for me. Banshee works too, but it does not have as many features as Amarok.

     

    I do think you'd do wise to backup her music collection somewhere though. You never know and it's a good idea in any case.

  17. Show Off Your Desktop - November 2006

    in Art And Design

    Posted · Edited by Darkelve

    Hey Foz de Iguacu, right?

    <snip>

     

    Yes! Truly brilliant sights :)

     

     

     

    Taking Ubuntu for a spin... still feels weird to be using Gnome.

     

    If you need tips for setup eyecandy (or other things), I'll gladly help.

     

    Do you know anything about getting fonts to look the best under Ubuntu? I've already messed with the subpixel hinting (set it to 'medium'), text is better but I've got the impression it's still worse than some other distros that I used.

  21. PCLinuxOS installation: partitioning

    in Other Linux and Unix Distributions

    Posted · Edited by Darkelve

    I'd like to try out PCLinuxOS. (Looks good... hope it works just as good :) )

     

    Right now I am running Windows XP (daily use)+SuSe 10.1(near-daily use)+Kubuntu (don't use it any more but partition is still there).

     

    I'd like PCLinuxOS to use the partition "space" now occupied by the Kubuntu installation. I'm not familiar with diskdrake (anymore) though.

     

    Questions:

    - Any tips you can give me on the resizing, replacement, protection, ... of all partitions?

    - Is the boot manager PCLinuxOS installs good at detecting/setting up triple-boots?

    - Can I install PCLinuxOS yet use another boot manager (preferrable SuSe's Grub implementation)

     

    - Any other things I should consider installing PCLinuxOS?

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