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KDE SC 4.5 Falls Short

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Jeremy
 – August 31, 2010Posted in: Featured Stories, Opinion, Reviews

Last week, I finally had a chance to check out KDE SC 4.5.0. I’ve used it before with the official Live CD, however there was a delay with my distribution (Arch) receiving this release due to some packaging issues, so I’m taking a look at it a bit late. The verdict? KDE 4.5 had promise, but a lack of new features and the introduction of brand new regressions keep it from perfection.

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The War Against Jailbreaking

By
Jeremy
 – August 24, 2010Posted in: Featured Stories, Opinion, Tech News

DRM (digital rights management) has never made sense to me. You can purchase content, and have no rights whatsoever as far as what you do with it. Perhaps locked devices are even worse, imagine buying a piece of hardware, and being limited to only being able to use it as the manufacturer allows you to. The worst part is, this is already a common thing, especially in the phone business.

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Five Tips To Get The Most Out Of KDE 4.5

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Jeremy
 – August 10, 2010Posted in: Featured Stories, Howto, Opinion

Today should mark the debut of KDE SC 4.5.0 (providing it doesn’t get delayed again). To help you make the most out of this new version, I decided to compile a list of tips that I feel makes the most of this revolutionary desktop. Some of these tips are old, and some are new. Either way, I’m hoping at least one of these tips will be of some benefit to you.

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Ubuntu 10.04: A Second Look

By
Jeremy
 – July 29, 2010Posted in: Featured Stories, Opinion

After I review an operating system or Linux distribution, it’s always fun to go back and try out the product again, with all updates, and see how it’s improved. Ubuntu 10.04 was something I thought was pretty decent, but not decent enough to steal me away from Arch. However, I know others that are Ubuntu users and my wife is a big fan as well, so I still continued to have exposure to it even after having reviewed it. Here are my thoughts on Ubuntu 10.04 and how it stands today.

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GNOME 3.0 Delayed Until March

By
Jeremy
 – July 28, 2010Posted in: Linked Stories, Opinion, Tech News

GNOME 3.0 was supposed to make it’s debut this fall, but instead has been delayed (again) to March 2011. At first version 2.30 was supposed to be 3.0, but it was delayed and 2.30 remained 2.30. Now that GNOME3 has been delayed again, version 2.32 will be coming out this fall instead.

To me, this is no big surprise at all. As ambitious as GNOME3 is, I didn’t see any way it would be ready in time by this coming Fall. There is just simply too much for them to accomplish in such a little amount of time.

I’m hoping that this extra time in development will be used to make the GNOME Shell good. (For those that don’t know, the GNOME Shell is quite possibly the biggest change in GNOME3). Personally, I absolutely hate it, and I cannot imagine GNOME purists flocking to it from those that I’ve worked with. I find GNOME Shell (as it currently is today) to be a usability nightmare, but maybe that’s just me.

Still, I wish the GNOME hackers all the best in making their new generation as awesome as they can.

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