I’ve long been a fan of Songbird, but when I updated Ubuntu and tried to download a fresh Songbird, I discovered that Linux wasn’t supported any more. What a pity. A community supported replacement, Nightingale, is on the cards and I look forward to that, but in the meantime, what to do? With all due [...]
Back in May 2007 I wrote this After four months on Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) I surprised myself the other day by realising how few programs I’ve actually changed from Windows Xp. Of course I used a lot of open source on windows anyway, and there have been a few programs I haven’t been able to [...]
One of the perennial questions about moving to Linux is if it has the equivalent of the software that the questioner can’t live without. In my own case I hesitated before I blitzed Windows because of the dozen or so websites I look after both for myself and my friends. How would I check how [...]
I needed to see a video recommended by my cousin but it required Silverlight. I should have booted into Vista and downloaded Siverlight, but without thinking I found the equivalent for Linux, Moonlight, and installed it. Big mistake. It all ran smoothly, however, thanks to instructions from Tim’s Moonlight Installation Page and those who want [...]