Why Did GNUstep Never Really Take Off?
About a month ago, I considered the factors that were holding back one open source project with much potential, Parrot. Today I will do the same for another open source project: . Mac OS X knows the inherent power and quality of this API. It was designed extremely well, successfully ...
NetBSD: An Alternative to Xubuntu and Ubuntu Lite for Machines With Low Specs
I know a number of people who advocate the use of Xubuntu on resource-constrained desktop systems. But there has recently been talk about how the resource usage of Xubuntu is growing at a rapid pace. Along these lines, today I read an article that considers the use of Ubuntu Lite ...
It Is Time To Take The WWW Behind The Shed And Put It Out Of It’s Misery
Almost everything that makes up the WWW is a hack. HTML, HTTP, SMTP, are all antiquated technologies. These old technologies were engineered with the sole intention of delivering and sharing text documents. Early web browsers and e-mail clients shared this same basic vision in the beginning. Even today, most media ...
The Power Of A 500 MHz Pentium III System With 128 MB of RAM
Thanks to an article on DesktopLinux.com, I was reading about the Asus Eee PC 701 system. One interesting thing about this system is that it will reportedly run a variant of Xandros Desktop Linux. The article goes on to note that this device will apparently have 512 MB of RAM. It’s ...
