Well, Kubuntu got its chance on my notebook computer, and it came up short. No Tellico, no easy way for it to support my Wifi chip, and it is missing some of the applications I use all the time. So I have moved on.
I installed Mepis Linux 6.0 from a DVD. It has a lot more applications than Kubuntu, but I’m not sure if it will fill the bill, as it is also based on Ubuntu. It doesn’t have Tellico, either. Tellico is a must have for me, so I will see if I can compile it under Mepis.
I wish there were a distro out there that had as many applications in it as SuSE, because I am rapidly becoming disenchanted with Novell and its policies concerning Microsoft.
Silly sign of the day:
Free/Open Source Software
- ‘Take your covenant and shove it’, Samba tells Novell
- Free software still legal – judge
- Volish open sauce moves dissed again
- The four most trendy Linux developments
- Give the Gift of Pre-Installed Linux This Year
- Sun’s Historic Java Announcement
RIAA/MPAA/BSA/FCC
- Perspective: The farce behind ‘Digital Freedom’ – From the President of the RIAA, naturally.
- The RIAA Starting To Panic?
- Digital Freedom Campaign Annoys RIAA
- RIAA Unconstitutional?
- RIAA slams ‘fair use’ changes
Stupid Patent Tricks, DRM and Other IP Nonsense
- Microsoft’s patent promise ‘empty’
- Sports Artist Sued for Mix of Crimson and Tide
- Canada: Oda Funding Controversy May Derail Broadcast and Copyright Policy
- “The Pirate and the Suit” at Web 2.0
- A startup crushes its copycats
Other News
- Fidel Castro not expected to live through 2007
- McCain in Second Bid as GOP Presidential Candidate
- Feeling Blue?
- Investigator says Hollywood commissioner’s computer was ‘wiped’ clean of data
- Calling Out Microsoft
- Texas spaceport launches 1st test rocket
Security/Our Rights
- IE7 ‘critical update’ causes headaches for managed desktop environments
- Biometric ID cards an insecure menace, says EU ID outfit
- Alarm Raised for Critical Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver Flaw
- Researcher Finds ‘Trusted Computing’ Chip in Apple Models
- Allchin backtracks on Vista virus claims
- Court Shutters Spyware Operation
Big Brother
- Arrested for a rubber band ball
- Universities move to hide work from U.S. eyes
- “V” Meets The Secret Service
- Donald Rumsfeld: The War Crimes Case
- Big Brother, Big Business
- FEMA left modular homes out to rot
- Math Says Better Passenger Screening Beats Better Profiling