gLabels Does the Job but Wouldn't Make Patrick Bateman Sweat
It isn’t easy to find a great way to make business cards and labels using FOSS software. If LibreOffice and Scribus leave you unsatisfied, take a look at gLabels. gLabels is a lightweight program useful in creating labels and business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It gets the job done smoothly once you know how to use it, but a lack of templates makes getting started a trial-and-error process.
gLabels Does the Job but Wouldn't Make Patrick Bateman Sweat
It isn’t easy to find a great way to make business cards and labels using FOSS software. If LibreOffice and Scribus leave you unsatisfied, take a look at gLabels. gLabels is a lightweight program useful in creating labels and business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It gets the job done smoothly once you know how to use it, but a lack of templates makes getting started a trial-and-error process.
GNOME 3 vs. Unity: A Schism in the Making?
Both GNOME and KDE recently underwent massive redesigns. GNOME 2 morphed into version 3.0 with a radically different look and feel. KDE 4 is also graphically much different from the KDE 3 lineage. Meanwhile, Ubuntu has added Unity to the mix. The future of all will depend on ease-of-use perceptions and end-user hardware.
Nokia N9: A Phone for Geeks Who Wonder What Might Have Been
With its 8MP camera and curved-glass screen, the new Nokia N9 appears to be a solid smartphone in terms of design and hardware. But although Nokia’s future lies in Windows Phone 7, the N9 will ship with another OS: MeeGo. So who is the N9 for? Buyers are “probably not going to be mainstream users; they’re probably going to be geeks playing around with it,” IDC’s Will Stofega said.
Adobe Cuts Off Linux's AIR – 'and Nothing of Value Was Lost'
Adobe simply “is not serious about GNU/Linux,” said blogger Robert Pogson. “They’ve made many of their GNU/Linux releases second-rate and refused to release many products for GNU/Linux.” The longer the company continues on that path, “the more irrelevant they will become. … If Adobe cannot or will not compete in the FLOSS market, to hell with them. The world can cooperate to make the software it needs.”
The Enterprise's Shifting Center of Gravity
As the future of the cloud unfolds before our eyes, enterprises will need to nimbly adjust to new realities, new partners and new services. The older point-to-point methods of IT integration, even for internal business processes, are slow, brittle, costly, complex and hard to manage. Flexibility is a must.
The Enterprise's Shifting Center of Gravity
As the future of the cloud unfolds before our eyes, enterprises will need to nimbly adjust to new realities, new partners and new services. The older point-to-point methods of IT integration, even for internal business processes, are slow, brittle, costly, complex and hard to manage. Flexibility is a must.
Hypervisor Fight Is Good for Customers, Good for FOSS
Customers are demanding open source characteristics such as flexibility, customization, cost and time efficiency, and scalabilty, while vendors are doing their best to deliver it — often based on support for open source components, languages, frameworks, databases — and hypervisors.
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Ubuntu Gets Some Love
Posted by techallthetime on June 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“Promotion of GNU/Linux is giving back, and Ubuntu has done that well,” said blogger Robert Pogson. “Deals made with OEMs and providing services to businesses for servers have advanced the visibility of GNU/Linux considerably.” At the same time, “Canonical does rub me the wrong way sometimes,” he added.
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