Posts Tagged ‘linux’

Can You Replace Windows Entirely With Ubuntu?

APCMag has gone through all the trouble of trying out an Ubuntu Linux installation and replacing everything they normally use Microsoft Windows for.

The upside is obviously the open-source and free aspects of Linux, but are their other clear benefits?

And what about the areas Ubuntu excelled? All the important ones — all the key applications were there and worked wonderfully for me to use it as a working desktop… » Continue

September 17 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: linux, windows | 4 comments»

GTD w/Emacs

Michael over at PigPog has gone deep dive with a project on Getting Things Done using the Emacs text editor (which is available for all computer platforms). It’s pretty intense stuff if you’re not already a user of Emacs, and he points that out. But we serve all types here, right? You might be a unix/linux fan and you might already use Emacs for everything. And if not, Michael’s… » Continue

May 25 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: emacs, geekery, gtd, hacks, Lifehack, linux, pigpog, unix | 1 comment»

GTD and KDE in Linux

Just wanted to share a good news, especially if you are a Linux and KDE user. Looking around the information today, there is a project sponsored by Google’sSummer of Code concentrated on implementing Getting Things Done methodology in KDE’s email client, Kontact.

Kontact is what I used in my work laptop and love it a lot as an organizer and email client, especially the functionality of assigning shortcut keys… » Continue

September 16 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, linux, software | no comments»