Tag: Ubuntu

  • Linux elegance and aesthetics

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    In terms of elegance and aesthetics, Microsoft and Apple are many years ahead of Linux. 451 Group analyst Raven Zachary Ignoring Mac OSX for now, I’m not sure what this is being based upon. I’ve been using Ubuntu since 5.04, and in its current form I’d say it is every bit as elegant and aesthetic…

  • IBM support for Ubuntu

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    James Governor of RedMonk raised a question that has come up a few times in the Lotus blogsphere, on the subject of Ubuntu as an IBM supported OS. I mentioned the fact that DB2 is supported on Ubuntu, a fact which doesn’t really fit with some of the justification for not supporting Lotus Notes and…

  • So where is Microsoft at with Vista?

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    This rather (in my opinion) poor piece of journalism from the BBC quoting Gates on Vista sales figures caught my interest, particularly following the news this week regarding Microsoft’s threat to persue patent royalties from open source initiatives such as Linux and OpenOffice.org. (Link via Bub Sutor). Mr Gates said sales had been quicker than…

  • A few other Lotus + Ubuntu bloggers

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    Over the last few days, I have noticed a few other bloggers from the Lotus blogging community mentioning Ubuntu. Ferdy Christant has published a good article on his recent move to ubuntu on his new laptop. Stuart McIntyre has a post on his attempt at getting the Notes 8 Beta running on ubuntu. I look…

  • A bug squashed

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    As it turns out, my Ubuntu bug turns out not to be, following a response with some instrustions. It looks like the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-1.0.9629 was installed from a 3rd party source that is not compatible with the ubuntu version numbering schema. You can try to remove the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-1.0.9629 packages and install the…

  • Lotus Notes 8 Beta 2 on Ubuntu

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    So, tonight I managed to have another go at getting the Lotus Notes 8 client running under Ubuntu. Disclaimer: I do realise this is not supported, and I agree with John and his rules of engagement, curiosity has just got the better of me! Thanks to Nathan’s tip on the Beta forum, I manually created…