I’ve been working on my laptop ever since the wireless network is installed. I love to bring my laptop here and there in the house, especially to living room and dining table, where I can join my parents for a little chit-chatting.
This laptop runs a genuine Windows XP Professional. I had to search for some favorite programs which I’ve been using on my Debian desktop. GIMP, an image manipulation program which I’ve been using for years, is available for Windows. Windows package is available here. Please be informed that you will need GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment in order to run GIMP, GTK+2 installer is also available in the same page.
Tags: gimp, Open Source, software
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I’ve been using my laptop for quite some time, not much changes since the last time I used Windows XP Pro. This post is actually inspired by the expiry of subscription of Norton Antivirus 2004 that came along with this laptop. This post is also dedicated to my dear sister Stella, she’s got redundant problems maintaining her own machine.
Okay, so my long lasting situation is, no extra $ for the softwares. Since the Norton Antivirus 2004 is expiring, and according to the message I have to get the new subscription key from a local vendor, if only I know who is that. So forget it, I chose to completely remove it from the system. Now damn, here comes the all-knowing magic balloon, saying that my computer might be at risk without a antivirus program.
Now look at these two products, limited features, but more than enough for a single home user. Solutions don’t always cost you money, if you know how. This post is no way affiliated with the following vendors, this is just my gratitude to them, for releasing quality products under Free-Software license.
Tags: antivirus, avast, avira, software
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Yes, this is my first blog entry for debian. Debian is a distribution of GNU Linux. Its official website is at http://www.debian.org/. Feel free to find out more about it.
This entry is a full list of softwares that I use on Debian, to perform my daily activities.
1. Desktop Environment.
KDE is my first choice. Handy file types support, easy to use configuration, wonderful support. The best desktop environment on linux in my opinion.
2. Package Manager.
Softwares in Linux, are often distributed in package. For easier download, installation and maintenance. Each distribution of Linux has its own naming of these packages. In Debian, these softwares come in .deb files. A package manager is a software that manages the downloads, installations, updates and upgrades for these software packages. My favorite package manager would be Synaptic, a GUI package manager.
Tags: Debian, linux, Open Source, software
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