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Category Archives: Linux Philosophy

Thoughts about the Linux operating system, and how to make it easier to use, friendlier, and more powerful for the average user.

Apple Excursion - Complete Newbie Development Musings

March 3, 2008 – 5:44 pm

The other day I was mildly bothered that Mac OS X doesn’t implement some built-in way of moving and resizing windows like most Linux WMs do - by allowing shortcut keys and mouse presses in combination to move and resize from and point on the window, instead of the title bar and resize handles. My [...]

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Linux and Documentation Part I

December 30, 2007 – 8:29 pm

A lot of what throws Linux users off appears to be this idea that the documentation is elusive, unwieldy, and not really tuned for end-users to digest. Our cable modem was down for a while, and I was too lazy to get up from my Linux laptop, so I started going through man pages - [...]

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