I’m going to introduce WINE which is all about running Windows based applications on Linux and other operating systems, such as the Mac. WINE is open source. The ability to use Windows based applications is very useful for many Linux users. For new users this mitigates the learning curve of so many new applications at [...]
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DOSBox 0.72
Dosbox is an MS-DOS emulator for Linux, the Mac, Windows and quite a few other operating systems. It lets you run older MS-DOS based applications, games and other MS-DOS compatible software. If you don’t know what MS-DOS is, thank your lucky stars and know the rest of this will probably be worthless to you. One [...]
The Ark Noah Left to Rot
Though I enjoy Linux and generally think well of it there are times when one shakes the head and wonders what the hell people are doing. So this is going to be a Linux bashing review, or more specifically Ark bashing. Ark is the default archive managing program for the KDE desktop. Meaning it makes [...]
Software Freedom Day
Software Freedom Day (SFD08) is a world wide event promoting Free and Open Source Software to families and businesses. It’s held each year and this year is on Saturday 20 September 2008. There are many small localised events all across the world organised for that day. My local Linux User group is doing one of [...]