Spiders on the Web

Few months ago everybody was staring at some windows and saying “WoW !”.

So… What we should say now with these 3D effects in Ubuntu ?

Spiders on the Web,
Danilo

Last week the new Ubuntu Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 went out.

There are some new interesting features:

• Gnome 2.20
• 3D Desktop, Compiz Fusion is enabled by default but I think it needs a good graphic card
• Desktop Search, a deskbar applet is now included in the default configuration. It allows quick access to your common actions, including opening web bookmarks and searches, sending messages to your contacts, and more
• A wizard to install Firefox’s plugins
• … and a lot more

Today somebody told me that Linux it’s difficult and is good only for programmers. I replied that this is not true anymore, I saw a demo of what you can do with the 3D desktop that definitely we can say that Linux is good for anyone.

So I suggest you download the CD so you’ll check it out yourself.

Spiders on the Web,
Danilo

Today, OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. It was on 13th of October 2000 when Sun Microsystem founded what it is widely considered the most important open source productivity suite and one of the largest open source projects.

I worked daily with OpenOffice.org since year 2001 and with Linux since 5 years before at least. Honestly I didn’t realize that all this time was gone, but I saw the evolution of this particular open source software and I knew what it could get. To be an office suite that it doesn’t have nothing less than others most famous ones…indeed we can say the opposite.

Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org and thanks to everyone whose was working on the project.

Spiders on the Web,
Danilo

This weekend I’d like to make a small list of some Open Source application which I suggest to use, sure it is not a complete list but should be enough to get you started with Open Source so you don’t need to get proprietary software anymore.

I wrote in the title that is software for “Everybody” because thos programs can run on any operating system, so not just Linux but Windows and Mac OS X as well.

• Office automation: OpenOffice.org, o NeoOffice its Mac OS X version
• Internet Browsing: Firefox
• Email: Thunderbird
• RSS Reader and Newsgroup: Thunderbird
• Calendar, Todos, etc…: Sunbird, Thunderbird with Ligtning plugin
• Graphics Design and Photography: GIMP

Spiders on the Web,
Danilo