Martin Notes

Sometimes Digg does have humour. I think it’s amazing that people actually make the effort to mark this article as “Possibly inaccurate”.

Opinion digg, humour

I’m a real fan of Ubuntu, but I’m willing to try someting else when it’s better.

I’ve downloaded Fedora 9 Gnome and KDE4. The Gnome version is boring, but it works fine. The KDE4 version is brilliant. I must say that I’ve always been using Gnome, but KDE4 is really good. It looks much more modern then Gnome and the features (plasmoids for example) are much more up to date.

But then, I was testing Fedora.

With linux I run into my laziness. Windows is easy: you buy a laptop, boot it, it works. That simple. But then you have a system based on crap technology and you very little customizing possibilities and I like customizing… I installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron and it worked perfect from the beginning, nearly all my hardware was supported, or I could get it to work. With Fedora not everything works, and it looks like it’s going to be a lot of work to get it to work.

The fn-keys don’t work. This is a common problem with the Sony laptops. Ubuntu solved this, Fedora didn’t. That sucks. I’m not able to set the brightness in Fedora, this bothers me because the display of the Sony is very bright. In Ubuntu it does work.

Frankly that did it for me. I like customizing, but I don’t want to search the web and find that stuff as trivial as the support of brightness is not supported in an OS.

On the positive side I must say that the KDE4 is really, really good. It’s much better then Gnome. Everything from the looks until the functionality is just a step better. But it’s not finished. When I see the prereleases of KDE4 I see that they are moving in the right direction, but they are just not there yet.

I’ll stay with Ubuntu for a while, but with the 9 release Fedora really made a huge step towards the usability for the general user.

BTW. I’ve also taken a look at Kubuntu. That looks rather pale when compared to Fedora. I understand that Ubuntu didn’t want to take KDE4 into the LTS verison, but KDE3.5 is real crap. It’s completely outdated.

Linux, Opinion, Ubuntu Fedora 9, Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu

I might just have found my GTK theme: Murrine. The Carmello theme is beautifull!

GUI, Ubuntu Carmello, Murrine

I will try it. I still have a weak spot for Fedora. RedHat was not the first Linux I’ve tried, but it was the first that worked for me. I like the Fedora project a lot, but they’ve lost a lot on usuability, that’s why I switched to Ubuntu. But I keep trying every new release. I hope that this live cd comes futher then telling me it find the CD after booting….

Linux, Opinion Ferdora 9

Is there finally somebody who understand search better then Google? Powerset might have something worth trying. Read the article at ABC for a nice explanation. No Web 3.0, but I would like search to become even better then what Google gives us.

Opinion search

Trend does it again: http://theslip.nin.com/. A full album as a free download!

Music, Opinion

This thing has been in my mind for a long time now. There is a connection between the open source community and Enterprise 2.0. They both describe distibuted responsibility and the use of web 2.0 tooling.

Look at the pages under: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/processes. This describes the organisation of the Ubuntu community. I’ve been reading this for about an hour now and I’ve seen 10ths of things we can use in Componence.

I’m going to do more research on this to find out how the settled enterprise can learn from the anarchistic open source community.

Enterprise 2.0, Linux, Opinion Enterprise 2.0, open source community

Finally I have suspend working. My hero is on the ubuntu forums. Life has just improved a lot

Linux, Ubuntu sony, suspend, tz21mn, vaio