PeterWell, in fact, there isn't one missing link. But in this FOSSwire article, I'm going to look at one major issue standing in the way of getting desktop Linux any serious market share. And that is OEMs.
Wikipedia defines Original Equipment Manafacturer (OEM) as:
When a company purchases products or components from another company and resells the products or components with the purchasing company's name or logo on them (usually, …
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The Beryl Project is what gives us the ability to have beautiful 3D desktop effects on Linux. Actually, it's forked from Compiz, which can do many of the effects too, but at the present time Beryl has more customisability and features.
In this post, I'm going to show you how easy it is to configure your 3D effects to your liking, by using in the built-in graphical settings programs. …
PeterFirefox is a great browser, and part of that is it's extensibility. As well as extensions and themes, Firefox also has an extensive set of hidden preferences that you can't get to through the graphical Preferences dialogue.
Instead, you can access them via the built-in about:config URL (just visit that in Firefox).
In a strange move backwards, this feature disappeared …
PeterNote: This is a straight up rip of the tutorial of the same name from the Beginner’s Linux series on my personal blog (on my personal site), but it’s content is eminently suitable for FOSSwire readers, so I’ve re-posted it here. Enjoy!
It's time for another quick Beginner's Linux!
I'd love to say it doesn't happen on Linux, but very rarely it does. I can say it happens less …