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For a few weeks, I've been slowly, slowly learning my way around the Open Source operating system Ubuntu Linux. Lots of things work just fine. Indeed, they work incredibly well considering that I downloaded an entire operating system with office software for free from the net. But every now and…
Consider Super Ubuntu. It is a version of Ubuntu that includes additional extra stuff that many people install anyway.
Here is a wiki page about it.
And you can download an ISO here. (That web site might make a little noise.)
I have not tried it. If you do, let me know how it goes.
With Ubuntu's release a few weeks ago of Ubuntu 14.10, Mate has now become an official flavor of Ubuntu.
There are two pieces of bad news that relate to this that we'll get out of the way. First Ubuntu's default distribution, which uses the Unity Desktop by default, broke a key Linux feature. If…
The Ubuntu 14.10 Release October 23, 2014
Ubuntu 14.10 will be released shortly and I know you are chomping at the bit and want to know all about it.
There is some important news, for some, and there is some exciting news for others, and there is some boring news, and frankly, some bad news.…
arrrgh! Adobe. Yech.
Chrome is non-free and 'google'; as far as I'm concerned google can keep it.
Thanks to bad web design I absolutely loathe 'flash'; I'm getting tired of writing to people telling them that their website is ineffective and a resource hog and please get rid of the 'flash' requirement and if they insist on 'flash', only make it available to people who care to use it.
The only reason I use 'Mozilla' is that 'lynx' just can't handle the modern web with all the rubbish on it.
Mad Scientist: Lynx can't handle it, but wget can!!! But seriously, why can't we have a text browser that works? That recognizes sidebars (which should be easy) and puts them aside, and dumps graphics in a temp directory and opens the first one in image viewer.
This does not seem hard.
Flash sucks. Always have issues in Ubuntu. Not to mention on my media unit, won't be recognized as video overlay for automatic fullscreen output to my TV. And everyone for some reason loves flash...
I use Firefox on Ubuntu with 'noscript' as a plug-in. I can choose to enable Flash or embedded videos on a temporary basis, so I only see the ones I opt to see.
Or course, this doesn't address the issue of web-designers overusing Flash or any other annoying product.