Just in case anyone has a spare serial modem and wants a use for it - i find being able to fax very useful if i don't have an email address to hand or want to send a letter to be read by perhaps several folk in an office (which wouldn't work with an email to an individual). I found it important to a...

I've used it and don't think much of it (couple of other apps similar i recall) - i write a car club magazine. I couldn't find a page setup if i remember correctly and it has a bug so that a header is printed twice). For distraction free writing i use Leafpad for quick notes, and/or gedit as one's g...

Just installed Salix 14 xfce this morning. It must be the smoothest linux install i've experienced. Started with Ubuntu in 2007, switched to xubuntu in 2010 and have seen the distro go downhill (like included a buggy development version of Abiword and loads of other bugs). I've been searching for an...

Could the problems with Gnome be why Patrick Volkerding decided not to bother with it a year or so ago. In each gnome distro there seem to be problems. Fedora 18 was barely bootable. I tried Centos to find that they share repos... yet it's supposed to be a stable release. As the saying goes "Go...

Umm wow. I'm going to have to eat my words here ... I got a random Xorg crash on the laptop. IMO that's totally unacceptable on a modern OS. Bye-bye Ubuntu. Certainly are! :) I started linux with ubuntu in 2007. Due really because of the media and not having a linux user group locally to advise. Wh...