As much as I like Ubuntu and the excellent support to and from their community, there are 3 issues that I have with Ubuntu:
1. No commercial plugins, no easy installation of them:
Coming without basic programs such as Acrobat Reader, Sun Java, decent Mediaplayer/Realplayer or Flashplayer, let alone drivers for Nvidia or ATI grafic cards is [...]

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Ok, I still dont get it why people do not switch in masses to open source software - it is free, it is good, it is much more secure - even if you use it on Windows.
Here are some of my favorite software programs that are available on both Linux and Windows - open and [...]

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Well well it is Sunday late evening and I am still trying to get the Gallery2 plugin for Wordpress to work. While validating showed everything is fine, after I had to set a symlink to the Gallery2 folfer since it is outside my Wordpress folder, still no pics…
Have to check the forums, maybe the [...]

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This web site is currently running on a Thinkpad 600E (IBM Laptop, made in 1999,with 280 MB Ram, PII-365 Mhz). Details can be found by clicking on the “Systeminformation” link on the right hand side of the home page.

The webserver software is Apache2 on Linux (Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS). Bandwith is 128 KBits upstream (slooooow, [...]

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