- Site menu:
- Latest Discussions
- Latest Newswire
- Archives
- Submit Story
- Story HOWTO
- Syndicate
- E-mail Alerts
LXer Features
Be in Peace, Alex Bayley
By Martin Bähr - Oct 27, 2011
LXer Feature: 27-Oct-2011LXer Weekly Roundup for 23-Oct-2011
After seeing two great people leave us, I thought this month could not get any worse. but it did. Many of us mourn the loss of John McCarthy and Dennis Ritchie. but what are we losing really? their legacy lives on. Much greater is the loss of a person who has left our community not because of death but because she has been made to feel unwelcome!
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Oct 24, 2011
The Little Desktop That CouldLXer Feature: 24-Oct-2011
Welcome to this week's collection of big stories from the LXer Newswire. Enjoy!
By Emery Fletcher - Oct 19, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 16-Oct-2011
LXer Feature: 19-Oct-2011
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, the Elder Gods of the Digital Universe decreed that the Icon would rule the World of Desktops, just as it had dominated the Land of the Hand-held since the dawn of time. No matter that on a giant monitor the Firefox appeared at nearly life size, all desktop items were to be stripped of verbal clues to the nature of their meaning.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Oct 17, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 09-Oct-2011
Welcome to this week's collection of big stories from the LXer Newswire. Enjoy!
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Oct 10, 2011
Why Do Volunteers Write Better Code?
In the Roundup this week we have Linux on a flash drive saving the day, Larry the Free Software Guy goes deep into the heart of TexOS, Helios wants to know if you can name that app, My Linux Rig profiles our Publisher Bob Whitinger and Carla Schroder asks do volunteers write better code? Enjoy!
By Carla Schroder - Oct 06, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 02-Oct-2011LXer Feature: 06-Oct-2011
Volunteers write better code, and maintain it better. At least that's what Michael Meeks, SUSE's desktop architect and senior LibreOffice developer says.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Oct 03, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 11-Sept-2011
In the LXWR this week we have memory leaks found on Firefox 6.0, an impatient distro dev sings a song, the KDE vs. GNOME schism and are Linux users playing to their strengths or shooting themselves in the foot? Enjoy!
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Sep 12, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 04-Sept-2011
Welcome to this week's collection of big stories from the LXer Newswire. Enjoy!
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Sep 05, 2011
Linux Desktop Flamewars: Is the News Media Too Negative?
The latest installment of the LXer Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!
By Carla Schroder - Aug 22, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 21-Aug-2011
Is the tech press too focused on negativity, to the detriment of the FOSS community? I don't know how he does it, but Bruce Byfield writes calm, thoughtful, lengthy articles that somehow ignite mad passions and flamefests. In his latest piece he discusses some of KDE4 developer Aaron Seigo's thoughts that the tech press presents an unbalanced, negative perspective, and sparks yet another round of heated discussions. So what's going on here?
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Aug 22, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 14-Aug-2011
This week's installment of the LXer Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Aug 15, 2011
"Samsung vs Apple in Europe" for dummies
By H.Kwint - Aug 13, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 24-Jul-2011LXer Feature: 13-Aug-2011
For everybody who understands less about the current Apple/ Samsung battle in EU than I do, here is my attempt to share the few things I understand with you. I'll briefly discuss the situation in both Germany and the Netherlands. The article should be especially suited for those who cannot read Dutch / German and are not up to date with what has been happening the last few days.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jul 24, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 17-Jul-2011
In the Roundup this week we have RMS telling to resist the temptations of the cloud, good bye Kubuntu, numeric relativity with the Einstein Toolkit and Microsoft is in the top 5 contributors to the Linux kernel? Methinks not.. Enjoy!
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jul 18, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 03-Jul-2011
In the LXWR this week we have the 10 best open source apps you never heard of, the freeload factor in FOSS, why Jason Perlow is smarter than an Open Source surrender monkey, IBM donates its Lotus Symphony code to OpenOffice and will Toyota's membership in The Linux Foundation actually spur it to contribute? Enjoy!
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jul 04, 2011
Teo Natty Netbook: Good Things in Small Shiny Packages
Here is a roundup of the big stories to hit our newswire this past week. Enjoy!
By Carla Schroder - Jun 27, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 26-Jun-2011
I like netbooks a lot. Portable, long battery life, sharp bright screens-- what's not to like? I took ZaReason's Teo netbook on a torture trip and learned a few things.
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jun 27, 2011
LXer Weekly Roundup for 19-Jun-2011
Here is a roundup of the big stories to hit our newswire this past week. Enjoy!
By Scott Ruecker (Phoenix, U.S.) - Jun 20, 2011
Why Gnome, Ubuntu and the like don't understand "usability"
In the Roundup this week we have both the killing of the Linux Desktop and the fall of OpenOffice.org, Jeff Hoogland talks about the first time Linux experience, 10 ways in which Ubuntu can improve Unity, Graham Morrison's top 10 Linux distros of 2011 and our own Hans Kwint asks why Gnome and Ubuntu don't understand 'usability'. Enjoy!
By Hans Kwint - Jun 16, 2011
Lately there has been some uproar about the 'dumbing down of interfaces'..KDE4 didn't offer the settings 3 did, Gnome dumbs everything down, and maybe Apple did the same the last decade. I couldn't tell because I never touch anything Apple, and the only time I did the software crashed and all this dumbing down for the sake of usability! However in my opinion, they are wrong. They confuse 'usability' with 'approachability'. Which leads to software which many times is not user friendly.
« Previous ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ... 44 ) Next »
864 entries found:
|
|