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Breaking the Windows II.

Saturday April 19 2008, 4:36 pm

OK, this is where I take back some of the nice things I said.
My installation of OpenOffice is proving inordinately complicated. OpenOffice won’t install without JRE and JRE can’t be installed without fiddling in the Terminal as a root user. Following Java’s instructions is no help however, because Xubuntu doesn’t apparently have a root user [...]

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Breaking the Windows.

Saturday April 19 2008, 2:49 pm

It’s been said by many people, including Microsoft themselves – Vista is a dog when it comes to low-powered UMPCs or NetBooks or whatever it is you want to call them. In fact it flat out can’t be run on a lot of them. Windows XP, the obvious Windows alternative, is being wound back (although [...]

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