Can Linux Transplant Windows As Main Desktop OS?

In one word, yes. But one word just doesn’t do justice the issue of addressing linux as a desktop OS to replace Windows and its huge established base of users who are used to a “simpler” desktop operating system. I love linux, but unfortunately:

I have to go with what I know
I don’t have the [...]

My Linux Journal Day 26

I was looking at replacing my current linux machine with a hopefully more powerful one, and after loading a Linux distro onto it I found it had a 650MHz CPU with only 128MB of RAM. Needless to say I was disappointed. According to a badge on its case it was built by Quest, or the [...]

My Linux Journal Day 17

Okay, I’ve gotten started with the Quanta HTML editor because Bluefish just didn’t do it for me. Mainly there was no color picker, and I’m not going to use an external program, my memory, or a website for colors.
So Quanta is installed and in action here:

This is pretty cool because its also my first time [...]

Preparing Ubuntu 7.04 for Upgrade to 7.10

I’m a novice Linux user, although I’ve used Linux on and off for about 10 years. Most of that 10 years has been OFF without Linux, so each time I start over I have to learn everything all over again.
The history with my Linux machine… where to start? Its an HP Pavilion 8766c (an old [...]

How Cool is Linux?

Throughout the 1990’s Linux evolved into, been packaged into, a desktop Operating System, and into the new millennium its become more and more user-friendly. At some point it became an operating system no longer relegated to just us “computer geeks”, it became a viable alternative desktop operating system for the masses.
More recently Linux has gotten [...]