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November 2006



If you can't beat them, join... no wait, don't let them license it...

2006.11.23 Thu 8:43 A GMT-07
Interesting move by MS to license the rights to create fancy new office 2007 uis. The one exception is that you can't use the ui in a competing product [ read OpenOffice ]. This just seems silly to me, but hey you gotta protect the cash cow somehow
Category: python linux open source KDE
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Gentoo, i810, AIGLX, Beryl and white screens

2006.11.03 Fri 9:25 A GMT-07
So, last night I tried installing Beryl (since AIGLX and are now in gentoo portage). It seems that the beryl fork of compiz is going well (I wrote about xgl/compiz's (slow) development models a while back). But even though the community has taken t
Category: linux open source KDE
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Tales of a real life switcher

2006.11.02 Thu 9:36 A GMT-07
I assume most have seen the Apple switch ads. So being the dork I was, I wondered what a Linux person would look like, if he was invited to the meeting of this odd twosome. Well after two or three years of trying with one person I'm finally going t
Category: linux open source
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