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When You Assume..

26 April, 2009 (06:34) | Linux | No comments

I, like many others, have never thought of Linux as a “pretty” operating system, instead choosing to think of it as the home of “best effort” programmer-designed GUIs and “command line first” design. This line of thought has set my expectations for my desktop Linux environments at home. When I switched to running Linux as [...]

Flashdance

28 December, 2008 (05:03) | General Computing, Linux | No comments

Until recently, Adobe’s support for Flash in 64 bit Linux environments has been pretty much non existent. Those of us who have made the jump have had to make do with nspluginwrapper, which enables the Netscape plugins to run on architectures (such as x64) that they were not written for. The experience offered by this [...]