Any one who uses Ubuntu will know that during the installation of Ubuntu you have the option to encrypt your home folder. This is all well and good but it means that only your home folder is encrypted which means, should your machine fall into the wrong hands your system can still be booted up. In the Ubuntu 12.10 Beta, there is now an option to encrypt the whole of the disk before installation. I... »
If you follow news about Linux, you've definitely heard about game company Valve's push to bring its popular games and its client Steam to Ubuntu. For Linux fans, the turn of events has been fun to follow. Valve CEO Gabe Newell made a ton of headlines when he proclaimed Windows 8 to be a catastrophe and promised to “hedge his bets†with porting Steam and its games to Linux. Since then, the... »
I had intended to use part 4 to spend a lot of time discussing the merits and demerits of Firefox for mobile android, but by Thursday morning, my enthusiasm for Mozilla's web browser had evaporated. I pulled up Chrome, logged back in and relegated Firefox to viewing work email and documents (via Google apps). See, while Firefox is a fine second fiddle on the desktop, it's not terribly useful... »
So it's been roughly five days of living in Firefox. I installed and synced the browser successfully across my two laptops, tablet and phone and was ready to get to work. During the last two days, I went about using Firefox for my daily needs: email, writing google docs, content management for a website with WordPress, note taking and more. I can't report that everything went well. But I'll ... »
So last Friday I decided to see what life on the web would be like if I ditched Chrome as my daily browser to go with Firefox. See here. Before I set out to really test what Firefox could do I needed to look into Firefox’s sync capabilities. The best part about Chrome is the seamlessness of syncing across desktop and mobile. I have two laptops — a System76 Lemur Ultra (my work mach... »
Mozilla’s new smartphone OS, Firefox OS isn’t due to be released until 2013 but it is already running on the Raspberry Pi. In a post on their blog, the team behind the project show us a video in which Firefox OS is running on the Raspberry Pi. In the video it showcases the running of some HD animations at 60fps. There is also an early iteration of the new home screen and some of the ... »
Linux sucks because it can’t play Netflix. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this said or seen this written. Not to be pedantic or anything, but there’s nothing about Linux that makes it so that Netflix can’t work. Netflix doesn’t work for a very specific reason. Microsoft. Netflix CAN Work in Linux First of all, it’s quite obvious that Netflix... »
Windows 8 will be released on the 26th October of this year and the frustrating thing for open source lovers like me is that Windows 8 makes it very difficult or if can say, impossible to run my Ubuntu OS alongside Microsoft Operating System. Windows Secure Boot if you don’t know, is controversial UEFI based feature developed by Microsoft to prevent unauthorized firmware, operatin... »