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by jeff goldman on September 9, 2009
Overclock.net forum member GodofGrunts recently leaked a series of slides from a Best Buy training session in which employees are taught to promote Windows and trash Linux.
"The materials prese...
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by Rom Feria on September 14, 2008
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Linux Journal featured an article on how to switch from Windows in 3-easy steps. To summarize, step 1 - introduce open source applications that run o...
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by Rom Feria on September 14, 2008
I found another tip on how to run Windows applications on Linux without seeing the entire Windows desktop. However, this tip uses VMWare. The same can be achieved with the open-source and free Virtu...
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by Rom Feria on September 1, 2008
I will be speaking at the Youth for IT Congress in the Philippines tomorrow to present various operating systems, including Linux. However, since majority of the audience are familiar with Windows s...
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by Rom Feria on July 13, 2008
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WINE, the Windows Emulator, has just released the 1.1.1 development update with the following improvements:
- Fixes for Photoshop CS3 and Office 2007 ...
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by James Koopmann on July 11, 2008
Wubi is an official installation of the popular ubuntu linux distrobution. The cool thing about Wubi is that it is installed/integrated with Windows. You can basically install Wubi just like any other...
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by Rom Feria on February 9, 2008
I wrote about the open source version of "Photoshop" called Gimpshop. Whilst it is a free alternative to the commercial Adobe Photoshop tool, what if you already have a copy of Photoshop CS...
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by Rom Feria on February 9, 2008
With WINdows Emulation (wine) getting more and more mature, an easier way to manage bottles is needed. Here is where WINE-Doors come in - a GUI-based WINE manager. Now on version 0.2, the applicatio...
Read more of Wine-Doors starting to look good
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by Rom Feria on October 29, 2007
We all have our own ways of teaching our friends and family how to switch from Windows to Linux. Mine goes like this - are you planning to get a new hardware? If so, can you afford a Mac? If so, get a...
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by Rom Feria on September 29, 2007
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installing Linux on Windows using WUBI before and I just couldn't believe that there are other people considering installing Linux with Windows. Frankly, it should be simple - just wipe out...
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by Rom Feria on September 22, 2007
Like the rest of you geeks, I have several USB thumb-drives in my possession. Some I bought, whilst others were either part of a swag or given by the employer. I have a 2GB one that serves as my trans...
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by Rom Feria on August 18, 2007
This is one service that I personally will not be able to provide you, a side-by-side comparison of Linux and Windows. Why? I do not use Windows and nor do I plan on installing anything from Microsof...
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by Rom Feria on July 31, 2007
Whilst I prefer having Windows users completely switch to Linux (or a Mac for that matter) instead of running Linux as a secondary OS or using an emulator to run it, some users simply need to be slowl...
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by Rom Feria on June 24, 2007
When Microsoft announced its new Silverlight technology, it provided a Windows and Mac OS X version, none for Linux. However, the Mono project, the .Net Linux implementation, pledged that it will crea...
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by Rom Feria on June 16, 2007
Another gift from Wine Headquarters, an update to the Windows emulator for Linux and other Unix-based systems, bumping it to version 0.9.39. A short-list of what's new:
Many MSHTML improvements...
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by Rom Feria on April 21, 2007
Microsoft announces the Microsoft Student Innovation Suite, a package that contains Windows XP Starter Edition, microsoft office home and Student 2007, Microsoft Math 3.0, Learning Essentials 2.0 for ...
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by Rom Feria on April 18, 2007
Since it is tax time once again, I found an interesting article from the Software Freedom Law Center about Microsoft and the Patent tax. Whilst this definitely gives a one-sided view of that matter, I...
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by Rom Feria on April 13, 2007
Whilst I really do not recommend anyone doing this (tainting your pristine Linux box with tainted Windows applications hehehe) but if you really do not have a choice, here is a tutorial on how to inst...
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by Rom Feria on March 27, 2007
For the unfortunate few who needs to maintain a Windows workgroup along with their Linux installs, HowToForge provides a tutorial on how to setup Samba Server for small workgroups on an Ubuntu server ...
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by Rom Feria on February 21, 2007
Accessing the Windows-only NTFS file system is like a burglar accessing a safe. No, it is not safe nor secure but it is "too closed" (aka proprietary) that you need crowbars to open, read an...
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by Rom Feria on February 17, 2007
WineHQ just announced the availability of release 0.9.31 of Wine, WINdows emulator for Linux. To top of the list of bug fixes and added features, here are the new stuff in this release:
Many Direct3D...
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by Rom Feria on February 1, 2007
Whilst I prefer doing it the other way around, i.e. running windows in Linux (not that I ever use Windows anyway), but I guess there are instances when you are forced to use Windows (specially in the ...
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by Rom Feria on January 26, 2007
WineHQ releases the latest version of the WINdows emulator for Linux, version 0.9.30.
What's new in this release:
Many improvements to Direct3D shaders and state management.
Support for inter-pr...
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by Rom Feria on January 24, 2007
Personally, I do not do video editing on Linux -- for that I use Apple's iMovie. :) For those who prefer working on Linux full-time, like Mr. Hartley, his article will give you an idea what applic...
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by Rom Feria on January 22, 2007
German company, Innotek, releases an Open Source edition of their product, VirtualBox, "a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use". I ...
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by Rom Feria on January 20, 2007
If you are like me, then there's no way you'd even consider Running Windows or even touching any of the Microsoft products with a ten-foot pole (except perhaps the Xbox 360 -- and run Linux on...
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by Rom Feria on January 10, 2007
Fast on the heels of the WINE 0.9.29 release, CodeWeavers releases version 6 of its CrossOver for Linux. The release notes is rather long but some of the interesting tidbits are:
New Application Supp...
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by Rom Feria on January 10, 2007
WINE headquarters just released version 0.9.29 and adds support for Intel Macs (I think this is via CodeWeaver's CrossOver for Mac code base). WINE is an MS Window emulator for Unix. What's ne...
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by Rom Feria on December 25, 2006
Just when everyone's drinking and being merry this season, the open source WINE community just released their latest version, 0.9.28, to the community. What's new in this release?
OpenGL in ...
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by Rom Feria on December 16, 2006
It used to be difficult to configure Samba to share files and folders between your Linux box and your Windows machine. Today I present two tutorials written on Linux.com and HowToForge.
First is how ...
