OpenOffice 3.1 for Ubuntu Jaunty
I’m sure a few people will be wondering. You can find good instructions here.
I’m sure a few people will be wondering. You can find good instructions here.
I upgraded by Feisty Fawn Ubuntu to Gutsy Gibbon yesterday and all went well. The only user note I have is that you do need to be there when the packages are installed to answer an occasional dialog or question in the terminal. I’m happy with the result. The current Ubuntu makes it extremely easy…
I have long been an advocate of OpenOffice.org, and have some of my commercial clients using it. For most business needs for an office suite, it provides more than enough capability, and saves companies large amounts of money, even if they make significant donations to the project. I was disappointed in the latest version of…
Since I recommend Firefox all the time, I thought I’d put a note about this. There are solutions in this Ubuntu forum thread, but for those who might not get there because they’re thinking of the problem as one with opening a new tab, let me note the solution that worked for me, which is…
. . . but you may. How to use more than 4GB RAM on a 32 bit Ubuntu installation.
Here’s a tutorial on one of those things experts often assume everyone will figure out. Nice instructions, well-illustrated.
Jason Hiner of TechRepublic, in an article titled The market has rejected Linux Desktops. Get over it shows that Linux market share in desktop computing has hung in the +/- 1% ranger for a decade and suggests this is unlikely to change very much. He cites a number of reasons, but I think the most…
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