Just wondering because I am getting an iPod. (It’s a long story.) In any case, I read that Rhythmbox could. Same thing goes with Banshee. However, those two don’t seem to support videos so now I am thinking that I should probably go with Gtkpod. I’ve never had an iPod before so I am quite used to the drag-and-drop copying and pasting of files to a microSD card I put on my DS Lite’s DS TT card and I run Moonshell on it. That is what I have been used to. This time …read more

If you’re working in a small company and you suddenly need to hire ten people in one go, you might catch yourself gasping because you don’t have enough computers for all these new people. You might have to purchase an additional 4 units. Ack. And licenses, yes? In some places, license for software can cost more than the actual computer and if you multiply the cost… It could be quite daunting. Some people turn to Linux when they realize that they might be better off with it. But you see, it does depend on the …read more

This is a question I’d like to ask you whether you’ve been using a Linux distro for only a couple of days or maybe many years.  I suppose that there are still things that we can’t do properly on many Linux distros.  Are you contented or are you still bothered by what’s missing?
Is there something that you’ve been used to that you miss?  I suppose that you’ve been using Windows for a long time now, then the Linux distros would look quite differrent for you because … well, they are.  It’s as simple as that, really.  But if you’re trying …read more

There are currently a bunch of netbooks out there that we could all choose from. There are Linux-powered ones and those with Windows XP. I’ve been thinking about buying a netbook myself but what is a compelling reason to do so?
Going light is something I’ve been wanting to do. I know that there are Linux distros that really ‘go light’ in so many ways. Some have applications with really small footprint when they are running and they don’t have too many big packages as dependencies when you install them too. I know that going light …read more

For lack of space, people compress files before copying them or sending them via email. If you guys didn’t talk about the archiving, you might have some headaches especially if you haven’t used Linux before. There are tools like XArchiver and when you’re using Gnome, there’s FileRoller and in KDE you have Ark. These are all graphical ways for you to use the tools like the tar compression and zip compression applications. I haven’t seen a distro without one of these three yet.
For users of Gnome and Kde, you could simply click the file you want …read more

Just curious. What’s it like for you?
Was it hell? Did you need much tweaking? Were there times that you had to reinstall or you had to reconfigure something?
Drop by and let us know here on New Linux User.;)
Edit: Sorry I had a typo! It’s Ubuntu 8.04 indeed. Thanks for the comments.

A blog entry called the The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users got my attention. Some of the things mentioned in the entry were taught to me by my friends and contacts as soon as they learned that I was about to use Linux.
The list includes not using the graphical user interface when logged in as root, giving your files good names (the ones which don’t use spaces. etc. in the names), place the home folder in a separate partition. Actually, I’ve been placing /home in a separate folder since I don’t know when. I realized …read more

(from Kino-eye’s Flickr photo stream)
Even if people are not comfortable with the idea, Linux is beginning to become more mainstream than we imagine. The production of machines such as the Asus EEE, Dell’s selling of Ubuntu-powered machines, Acer’s computers running on Linpus and now we have HP with small notebooks which run Linux — these have all helped in making it more known to the general public. However, there are still some challenges when it comes to Linux adoption:

Mindset. – Geeks must understand that other people are beginning to use Linux as well. And the new users …read more

So far I’ve only seen poll votes but not opinions on the matter. I’d like to read your reasons as to why you voted such and such.
Do you think that new Linux users wouldn’t benefit from that move Wal-mart made? Or do you think that it doesn’t really matter? Why won’t it matter?
In my experience, new Linux users seek help from people they actually know, not from people in retail shops which hardly sell machines with Linux pre-installed. So from this perspective, I think that it doesn’t matter. But that’s coming from someone in the …read more