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Sinabe ko na nga ba... Windows is as evil as Mac! Nang sumulpot si Linux in the computing world, with its many distributions or flavors, biglang naiba ang pananaw ng maraming mamamayan sa paggamit sa personal computer sa kanilang sari-saring pamumuhay. Sumulpot ang maraming Free and Open-Source Software na naging pang-kiliti ng masa sa kasalukuyan katulad ng Mozilla Firefox, OpenOffice.org, GIMP, Audacity, at iba pa . At habang nangyari ang mga ito, Windows was having thoughts to partner up with Mac due to the increasing competition against the FOSS movement. So they did. Kahit pangit pa rin tingnan ang Windows 7 at kahit nakaklula ang mga graphics ng Mac OS X 10.7 Snow Leopard, they are still closed-source, proprietary software!  Linux, along with its FOSS peers, is persecuted by the increasing aggressiveness of proprietary software providers - bilking users of their freedoms and their money. While these worldviews of these major operating systems differ, there i...

Hello there, FOSS fans! I'm really enjoying my Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" with all the desktop effects I can put in it. My PC is relatively old - A Pentium 4 2.40 GHz, with 512 MB RAM and nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 graphics card with 128 MB external graphics memory. But these requirements are just alright to install those desktop effects via Compiz Fusion. But with the right drivers (you have to separately install the proprietary nVIDIA drivers in Ubuntu), I can install Compiz and the wonders begin. Some of the desktop effects enabled on my PC are Desktop Wall (you can literally have separate "desktops" in most Linux distributions, add Desktop Wall or Desktop Cube for more excitement), Water Effects (reminds me of splashy effects in Mac OS X's Aqua interface), Scale (an effect similar to Mac OS X's Exposé), Window Switcher (similar to Windows Aero's Flip3D), Animation, Wobbly Windows (I like things "elastic"), and Transparenc...

Hello guys! I just obtained an ISO image of the new LTS (Long-Term Support) release of Ubuntu Linux operating system. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) is the latest stable release of this distribution at this time of writing. The next release of Ubuntu is Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) and will be released on October 10, 2010 (talk about the triple-10 hype, huh?) Through PowerISO, I accessed the contents of this CD image. For now, I installed Ubuntu inside Windows using Wubi. With only a few exceptions, Ubuntu in Windows ran just fine and smooth on my PC. (Considering it's a 2.6 GHz Pentium 4 PC with only 512 Mb of memory)  I discovered that this version of Ubuntu Linux can now support mobile broadband devices such as USB modems such as the ones available here in the Philippines, namely Smart Bro, Globe Tattoo, and Sun Broadband Wireless. I have a Smart Bro Prepaid USB dongle, a black & orange-colored ZTE MF627. I tried to connect this to my previous version of Ubuntu (8...