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As my Ubuntu Edgy (6.10) was not quite cutting edge anymore, I decided to get Hardy Heron.
Upgrade over two skipped releases would be suicidal, so I decided to do a fresh install. I also wanted to preserve my old Edgy… you know — just in case. That involved cutting off half of my system partition […]

This is not going to be only about the systems themselves, rather about general (desktop) working environment. As I had to spend substantial amount of time working with Windows recently, I feel qualified enough to share some insights:
What I like in Windows:

Total Commander: it really rocks, it remembers my ftp connections with passwords, it allows […]

The creators of Amarok say “rediscover your music”… and I did.
I always thought that having playlists and just opening them with any simple player was enough for me, but now I thought I might try to use something more sophisticated. I tried Rhythmbox, it was simple, clean and working but nothing astonishing. On the other […]

As much as I praised the beta of Edgy Eft (betas are usually horrible and this one was simply great without any flaws), the final release sucks. It replaced  [working] orinoco drivers for my wifi with [not working] prism2_pci drivers. Took me a while to figure it all out (merely a day or so, because […]

Hello from Edgy Eft!
Recently I got a new disk and I decided it might be a good idea to make a clean new install (I had the previous system through warty - hoary - breezy - dapper). I didn’t want to upgrade the old system to something which is still unstable and I thought it […]

Computer programs should be user friendly, it should be always easy and intuitive to do what you want.
I like userfriendliness of firefox, various stupid pop-up windows have been replaced by information bars that fit nicely into the application (such as search bar at the bottom when you press / (some people insist on using ctrl+f […]

I started with avidemux, which is capable of handling lots of formats. I’d call it a low level editor, it gives you power over many very basical things (such as containers, codecs and their settings (there are many settings)). It allows you to do some basic operations (but you have to be careful not to […]

Hello from Dapper Drake!
I’ve been patiently waiting for the final release not to get myself into trouble (I never installed release candidate I think), well, the upgrade wasn’t as smooth as I expected, but still went kinda ok. Let me sum up the result:
Positives:

Wine doesn’t take more and more memory when running Pokerstars (which means […]

Do you know sed? It is a program that transforms text (I’ve used it to transfer sgf to my povray format), however, some people thought it’d be funny to make games in sed…
They made classic pong game and sokoban (the old game where you are a man that has to move boxes through a maze). […]

Yesterday I decided to quadruple my swap (from 256mb to 1gb) so that I can play more hands in poker before having to restart the application that continually eats more and more of my memory.
Firstly I cut off that 1gb out of my fat32 data partition, that went relatively easy with me only having to […]