. . . from the TechRepublic 10 Things Blog. Several of these are pretty important!
I’ve been missing TweetDeck on my main office system, which uses Ubuntu Linux, ever since Twitter bought it and eliminated Adobe Air. I was suspicious of the stability of Air, but I liked TweetDeck, and it worked. I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t think of the solution myself, but rather found it here–TweetDeck for…
Ubuntu Productivity provides a good list of apps, short reviews, and links (HT: OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas).
I just want to put this in there for those who may be searching for help. After I upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10, my localhost server, which I use for a number of databases, quit rendering PHP pages. HTML continued to work. I found this page, Apache PHP no longer working after upgrading to 19.10 from…
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…
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…
This Amazon list will be regularly update with things I find that are particularly designed for use with Linux: Designed for Linux.