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SUPERGUIDE: The Open Source Challenge. How to replace Windows completely with Ubuntu.
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Ashton Mills is going cold turkey and dumping Windows for Linux altogether. Will he sink or swim? Can you really install Linux and open source software in place of Windows, and want for nothing? This is the authoritative how-to guide.
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Open Source Challenge part 9: Gaming
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We all know what computers arereallygood for -- games, and lots of them. Linux has never really been a gaming platform, so can Ashton Mills survive without Windows here?
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Open Source Challenge part 5: Email and office
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Having settled in with his Ubuntu partner in crime, Ashton discovers that living in a Linux only world can sometimes be a breeze too.
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Open Source Challenge part 8: Video editing
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So far the challenge to go all Linux has been a hit and miss affair, but it's also been a great learning experience. Now Ashton swings his Ubuntu guns on the problem of video editing.
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Open Source Challenge part 3: File management
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In the last section we discovered that not all was well in media land when it came to Ubuntu's desktop. Will things get better as Ashton Mills learns to live solely in the world of Linux?
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Open Source Challenge part 4: iPods, cameras, and more!
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The challenge continues as Ashton Mills forgoes the tasty delights of Windows for a world subsisting on Linux. Is it enough, or will he go hungry? Read on to find out about Ashton's challenge to rip and encode MP3s to an iPod.
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Open Source Challenge part 10: The verdict.
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Join us for the final instalment of our Open Source Challenge -- to see just how easy, or hard, it is to make Linux your main operating system and a replacement for Windows. What verdict does Ashton Mills give?
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Open Source Challenge part 6: USB peripherals and plug'n'play.
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You've gotta love the plug'n'play nature of USB devices, especially when it comes to cameras and other pluggable peripherals. But can Ubuntu make it as easy as Windows?
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Open Source Challenge part 7: Working with images.
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Surprisingly, Ashton hasn't gone completely nuts whilst subsisting only on Ubuntu. Of course, the challenge isn't over yet...
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Open Source Challenge part 2: Web browsing, security and multimedia formats, DVDs, and entertainment.
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It's only just begun, but the challenge continues. Join Ashton Mills as he tosses Windows away and works solely with Linux, for everything. Will he find nirvana, or go crazy? Read on to find out.
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Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas
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INTERVIEW | Linux is burdened with enterprise crap that makes it run poorly on desktop PCs, says kernel developer Con Kolivas who recently walked away from years of work on it.
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Interview with Con Kolivas part 2: his effort to improve Linux performance on the desktop
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What ultimately drove Con Kolivas to exit the Linux developer community forever.
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Interview with Con Kolivas part 1: computing is boring
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The death of innovation in PCs, and how Con Kolivas started to identify problems with Linux performance on the desktop.
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Gentoo tip: for the love of tmpfs
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When one chooses the Gentoo way patience is most certainly a virtue -- but you can speed it up a bit with this simple and effective tweak. Speed up Gentoo? Read on!
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ReadyBoost for Linux?
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Say what you will about Microsoft but ReadyBoost is a clever use of cheap-as-chips USB memory keys. Now there's a sort-of version for Linux too.
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