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By Timothy R. Butler
Seven years ago this week I published my first online commentary piece. The topic was the predicted death of the Linux desktop brought on by the demise of Eazel, the original developer of GNOME's Nautilus file manager. A lot has happened since that time, but not precisely how I would have predicted it would. Let's review.
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By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 21, 2008 at 23:4:47Media bias is a topic almost everyone seems to have an opinion on, particularly when high profile examples occur, such as the New York Times’s refusal to run John McCain’s editorial this week. Many people will get quite upset about big media’s “bias,” yet depending on a person’s political orientation, the alleged bias will typically land on the opposite side of the spectrum. For those on the same side of the spectrum, the typical response is a thorough scratching of the head and a response of, “Bias? What bias?”
By Ed Hurst | Jul 11, 2008 at 22:37:58Take a deep breath and repeat after me: A computer is just a
tool. It is only so good as it serves to make life better for
users. A “better” life is obviously not the same thing for
everyone. For me, it means making my Mac more like Linux, as I began to discuss
in my last article.
By Timothy R. Butler | Jun 30, 2008 at 20:56:2A year ago, page after page of ink was spilled by prophets of doom fretting about the iPhone and how it would surely not be as good as this or that other phone. It doesn’t have a keyboard! It can’t do voice over IP calls for really cheap international calling! It isn’t open enough to allow Quake to be installed on it! Oh, the humanity! A year later, were the critics right?
By Ed Hurst | Jun 20, 2008 at 23:13:14Sometimes you stumble across a decent system, still working fine,
but getting old. If the price is right, you might take it anyway. For
most people in non-profit work, which is like running a business on a
very poor budget, this is about the only way to get enough computers to
get the job done. A few weeks ago I stumbled upon an eMac running
Panther. It cost almost nothing, so I took it.
In the Archive: The Stealth Desktop
Eduardo Sánchez looks at the usage of the oft forgotten, but long running
Slackware Linux distribution as a desktop operating system.
(Part I,
Part II,
Part III)
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