Linux vs Windows vs Mac

Vixta Is a new Fedora 8 based Linux os,which use kde environment and it is meant to look like Microsoft vista.

Goals:
1)Absolutely free
2)Spread linux
3)No need of Config.
4)User-Friendly.
5)Eye-catching.
6)Like Microsoft Vista in look and Feel

Too bad they didnt include features and stability as a goal.
Vixta a is a welcomed concept,but its still in childhood stage it need lot of development to be fully featured OS.It have stability issue and crashes.It have some kde applications like Kate, Konquerer,Ktorrent and Kolorpaint but KMail or Kontact is missing.Kernel support was limited,i couldn’t find any matching source.After updating the kernel it wont boot.Vixta discussion forum is not very active most questions are anwered like “refer documentation”.The vixta kernel donot include modules to enable cpu scaling in modern operating system ,i think its because they wanted to save space.
My dell xps m1530 laptop was hotter than with any other OS i have still used especially while compiling source code.Another irritating bug was the blinking panel,which would disappear while doing cpu intensuve tasks,but luckly will come back.

Conclusion:
Vixta is a nice idea,But to make it a good operationg system it have much distance to go.Its plus points are familiar looking with nice eye-candy. I suggest you install using virtual box as i did.Its source code is not provided,they tell any way its very similar to fedora so its not worth reproduce the same code.But think its not fair according to GPL every linux distro must provide its source code.Lets hope things get better in future and they will provide the source code..

Download:http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=206087
VIXTA website:http://vixta.sourceforge.net/index.php

After reinstalling windows XP and rebooted grub was lost.I had no way to boot linux. I inserted some Live cd then proceeded until i almost have installed linux i don’t know why but i made Boot Flag “True” for Linux partition and tried to installed grub again.When I rebooted : “No Operating System Found”.

The answer was Auto Super Grub disk.
I suggest not to use live cd and type at least 10 commands and end up nowhere.If you do so and change Boot Flag or Some thing you are welcomed to the same horror i had 2 years ago as i said above!

1) Boot Windows

2)Download Auto Super Grub Disk.exe
http://forjamari.linex.org/frs/?group_id=61&release_id=629#629

3)Stop Anti-virus program if any.
Because Auto Super Grub Disk will edit windows registry so Anti-virus will find identify it as a virus.
If don’t know how to stop Anti-virus then allow Auto Super Grub Disk to edit registry when Anti-virus show you a pop-up.

4)Double click Auto Super Grub Disk1.exe
click ok u need not do any thing ,just click ok.

5)Reboot
Now you Will see the Windows boot menu with another option: unetbootin-supergrubdisk.
Select it using arrow key and enter when it is selected.Just do nothing.
6)Select your Linux and boot
You will have grub menu again.
Select Linux and boot.When you are in Linux reboot.Now u have restored Grub menu.

7)Boot To Windows Now Auto grub disk wizard will ask to remove Super Grub Disk from the windows boot loader,Click yes.
Don’t worry you will still have the auto_super_grub_disk_1.0.exe file safe in windows.

8)Enjoy linux again.

The third major installment of OpenOffice.org’s suite of applications has reached its final version. Probably one of the most important aspects surrounding OpenOffice 3 for Mac is that it now runs natively under Mac OS X, meaning no more X11, meaning faster performance, a standard UI and an increased overall reliability.

Being the major update that it is, OpenOffice 3 does many extra tricks, like reading documents saved with Microsoft Office 2007 or 2008 in .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and other new formats. This feature alone is enough to bite some of Microsoft Office’s market-share, and upset some high-ups over in Silicon Valley. The suite can read and write documents in standardized OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 as well.

The Start Centre has received a major overhaul, adding new icons and a new zoom control in the status bar. Chart boosts looks while Draw and Impress come with improved crop features. Writer adds a new notes feature and a built-in math solver component, and is also able to display multiple pages during editing. Workbooks now support up to 1024 columns in each spreadsheet. New sharing options have also been added, enabling multiple users to collaborate on a single workbook simultaneously.As for the Mac version of OpenOffice 3.0, for once, it brings some support for Visual Basic for Applications, which enables users to program macros customize their commands to great extent. Best of all though, the suite adds native OS X support for the first time. This means users no longer have to fire up that pesky graphical environment for UNIX applications known as X11. Thinking of Gimp’s wasted potential on Macs, X11 commits a sin by simply existing. So, what does all this mean?

Well, for starters, you now have an office suite of apps that behaves natively, crashes less (or almost never); it blends in with the Aqua interface which makes it look and feel like any OS X app; it integrates with OS X’s Accessibility API and is more accessible, fast and reliable.

OpenOffice 3.0 was uploaded to the organization’s servers at 10am (BST) on Monday, sources say. “The servers seem to have collapsed under the load,” said OpenOffice.org’s marketing lead, John McCreesh. McCreesh pointed out that the “vast majority” of downloads of the suite take place through local mirrors, but said “the fact that our central site can’t even run the bouncer [to divert requests to those local mirrors] must mean it’s… our biggest-ever download”.

You may download OpenOffice 3.0 Finalhere:

External Mirror 1

KDE 4.1 is finally out today, as you probably already know, and it comes with a lot of innovations for the Linux desktop. KDE 4 is the next generation of the popular K Desktop Environment, which seeks to fulfill the need for a powerful yet easy-to-use desktop, for both personal and enterprise computing. The new version provides increased stability over the first KDE 4 version and more eye candy!

So, if you don’t want to download an openSUSE-based KDE 4.1 Live CD or to wait until a stable distribution is released with KDE 4.1.0 as the default desktop, we will teach you how to install it on your existing Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.04.1 LTS desktop.

Step 1 - Add KDE 4.1.0 Repositories

Go to System -> Administration -> Software Sources…

…enter your password and the Software Sources window will appear. Click the second tab “Third-Party Software,” then click the ‘Add’ button and paste the following code in the new window that will appear:

When the download is over (it will take a while if you have a slow bandwidth) you will be asked to choose a display manager (GDM or KDM-KDE4). Just click Forward…

This simple guide will bring up the Windows start menu inside GNOME and allow you to run, use and install any Windows app (that can run in a VM) inside your existing desktop. It takes about 10 minutes to setup, minus the time to install Windows, and involves one command in total.

Final Update September 2007: Virtualbox 1.5 includes seamless virtualization! Go read about that instead!

Update: If you’ve been having trouble getting this working, make sure the key is correct - our site layout chopped the last part of the registry key earlier. Note this requires Windows XP Pro. XP home won’t do.

Update 2: To install the vmware-server package just use the Add/Remove… program.

Update 3: If RDesktop starts a blue background, instead of just the taskbar, click Start ? Control Panel ? User Accounts ? Change the way users log on and off, and enable the welcome screen and fast user switching.

This is a newer version of a rather popular article I wrote a while ago. This updated version is a lot simpler and allows multiple apps to be run.

• Click Applications ? Add/Remove… install the vmware-server package.
• Click System ? Administration ? Synaptic Package Manager. Install the rdesktop package.
• Click Applications ? System Tools ? VMware Server Console When VMware Server Console starts, click Connect to attach to your local machine. Then Create a New Virtual Machine. Use all the defaults, but pick NAT networking. Pop in your Windows CD, and install Windows
• Once Windows has started:

1. Enable Terminal Services by clicking Start ? Control Panel ? System. Click the Remote tab, and enable Allow users to connect remotely to this computer
2. Turn off the desktop for the user you’ll use to run your Windows apps, by clicking Start ? Run typing regedit and selecting HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/ CurrentVersion/Policies/Explorer. Create a DWORD called NoDesktop set to 1.
3. Note the IP address of Windows. Clicking Start ? Connect to ? Show All Connections. Select the Local Area Connection and hit the Support tab
4. Download SeamlessRDP, then extract it to C:\seamlessrdp
5. Log out of Windows, and close VMware Server Console (leave the VM running)

• Back in Ubuntu, open a Terminal, and run:

rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ IPAddress -u user -p password

substituting the IP address you noted earlier.

• The top of the Windows taskbar should appear above your GNOME panel on the bottom of the screen. Right click it, select Properties, and disable Lock the Taskbar. Then drag the taskbar to the left hand side of your screen.

That’s it. You can now run launch any Windows app you want from your VM (and install more if you need them). They’ll appear on the GNOME desktop, and you can switch between them from the panel.