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A Tale of Two Desktops

There are two real desktop environments for Linux: KDE and GNOME. Yes XFCE and others, I’m completely leaving you out. There are always people that defy convention or want to try something out there. I love BeOS and Haiku but I doubt I will ever push it as a...

openSUSE: GNOME vs. KDE

I try to keep this site ‘pure’ in terms of what I speak up about. This is not just another ‘Linux News Site’ and I don’t want it to be. But I want to bring up this debate in the context of app development. The debate has raged online for...

Build Things to Solve a User’s Problem

The company (or project) that figures out how to do this will win. That’s what Matt Asay says on his CNet blog. What to know what he said that about? He said that open source projects need to: determine what average users want and then to translate this into...

Shockingly, Suspend is Now Working on my Macbook Pro

Since switching from Ubuntu to openSUSE, I have been unable to suspend my Macbook Pro. This may seem like a big problem. But really, I just work from my desk in my office. So really it was just annoying. Closing the laptop or manually suspending correctly suspend the...