Continuing from the last post, here are a couple more Ubuntu videos. These two showing basic productivity software (Browser, Email, Spreadsheet, Document writer), and the casual games that come on a default install.
The videos:
Productivity
Games
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There are a lot of videos out there showing off beta parts of Ubuntu, but I haven't seen a general day to day usage example.
I think that is where a lot of people's bad assumptions come from about Linux. Geeks are often cutting edge, and eager to show off the latest hard-to-do thing. Often, the [...]
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A friend asked me what I thought about the Novell (Linux) and Microsoft deal. He asked if I thought it was a “good thing”.
I am not a high powered guy - I am not a big money player - I don't have all the facts, but I just have one word for Novell: Netware.
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Ubuntu is very helpful with tooltips (Gnome actually). After about a day of using it however, it starts to become annoying. They pop up really fast and very frequently.
The only setting I could find to shut them off was to use the Gnome “registry editor” gconf-editor (shown to the left). Type gconf-editor from the shell [...]
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Doing screen casting on Linux is not for the faint of heart. This is not an easy procedure because it's somewhat new to Linux, but if you are adventurous it can be done.
There have been several posts on how to setup screen casting on Linux - this one is a good example, and a good [...]