Marco Of rocking his promise has come true and the pre-installed with Ubuntu rockier Satchbook now brought in a 13-inch version on the market. The Satchbook to combine powerful, fully Ubuntu-compatible hardware in a high quality machine. The first copy I was unfortunately in my test of Satchbooks 15 not quite as happy, but the small model makes at first sight a great impression. Read the rest of this entry »

Cyrano has pointed me in a comment to the interactive tutorial to a lecture by Vim Bram Moolenaar. Bram is the main developer and driving force behind the powerful editor. The lecture will be presented in detail in almost 1.5 hours Vim, it is true of 2007 and thus get a little dusty, but from THE people behind the program explains in detail Vim is certainly not wasted time. Read the rest of this entry »

Updates that will fix the crashes of the Nautilus file manager in connection with extensions nautilus-open-terminal and Ubuntu One, have been published so now. The crashes should now be history. Anyone still looking for an alternative to nautilus-open-terminal, should look at maybe Nautilus Terminal. Read the rest of this entry »

I know still do not know if I should be glad angry about the beginning of Appifikation or Ubuntu. On the one hand, it's always good when software is easy to install in an operating system, on the other hand, it is questionable in my eyes, if Ubuntu needs a market for any meaningful free mini-apps. Read the rest of this entry »

The LUG Landau has asked me for their Linux Info Day in Landau 29.10.2011 advertising a bit to do what I do naturally happy. While it is in the area of ​​Karlsruhe, Landau, Neustadt to do in the murky probably have nothing to Saturday, so please have a look 10 to 18 clock in the Kronstr. 38 over. Read the rest of this entry »

Almost exactly two years ago I asked myself the question whether app stores are a threat to FOSS culture. I have then considered in relation to Android which stands for “free” programs I so on my phone have and what would a developer like Mario Kemper motivates his program not only free to distribute as freeware, but also the source code under the GPL . Read the rest of this entry »

Were In recent days there is a veritable race to the “first” full port of Android to the HP TouchPad. With the team and team TouchDroid CyanogenMod two groups independently driven ahead for Android, the TouchPad. It has recently been presented by TouchDroid support for the touchscreen multitouch including a YouTube video. Read the rest of this entry »

As I described in the introduction to the HP TouchPad, buyers get an account of the tablet in cloud storage service box.net about 50GB available for free. Actually, this space will cost about $ 20 a month, but the owner of a touch pad can use the service free for a lifetime. If you've got hold of a touch pad, so you just need the box. Read the rest of this entry »

Perhaps Already used one or the other of you Google Music. In principle, yes Google Music is by the operation similar in how comfortable Simfy or Grooveshark, but bind these cloud services are not included in the system. Fast times to control the Buttons skip a song, pause or stop, or from the Sound menu in Ubuntu, the music does not work. Read the rest of this entry »

The FRITZ! in Germany is looking so pretty much THE router for the people and pigs might fly. Wi-Fi router itself are indeed no longer high art, but Wi-Fi router with support for Internet telephony, media servers, file servers, voice mail, fax function so you can see really rare. I would venture to say just once that the FRITZ! Boxes pretty much have the most functional of all Wireless Router. Read the rest of this entry »