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NVIDIA loose big PC Order from China - AMD steps i

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2012/6/21/china-nvidia-loses-face-and-a-10-million-pc-order-over-linux-drivers-and-nres.aspx


As a fan of Open Source and Free Software this is good news, because I believe that NVIDIA had too big marketshare.
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Zebaztian
ZebaztianOP●Oslo, Norway
Aug 11, 2012●10 Blogs●95 Comments
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AMD steps in
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Zebaztian
ZebaztianOP●Oslo, Norway
Aug 11, 2012●10 Blogs●95 Comments
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Yes, but in the technical world things can change fast. Windows is loosing users and who could have thought ten years ago that a search engine company (Google), would create an OS for smartphones (Android)?
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2maybe
2maybe●Agder, Aust-Agder Norway
Aug 11, 2012●32 Blogs●272 Comments
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well, I shy away from anything that has NVIDIA - simply because they have not been any cooperative with anything beside Microsoft - it seems.
Been happy with AMD and ATI - and it was a joy when my chipset was supported by xorg. But right now I am pretty tired of the GNOME 3 stupidity. Perhaps I am missing some vital insight as to how and why they came up with this.
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Zebaztian
ZebaztianOP●Oslo, Norway
Aug 11, 2012●10 Blogs●95 Comments
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I run Linux Mint 13 with MATE. You can read more about the Mate project here:
http://mate-desktop.org/applications/

These are my favourite programs; Caja (fork of Nautilus), Pluma (fork of Gedit) and Atril (fork of Evince).
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2maybe
2maybe●Agder, Aust-Agder Norway
Aug 11, 2012●32 Blogs●272 Comments
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mange takk ! :)

so, someone did fork Gnome 2, hah - didn't know that. Guess Gnome 3 has tablets in mind ?
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Zebaztian
ZebaztianOP●Oslo, Norway
Aug 11, 2012●10 Blogs●95 Comments
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Yes, and I've read that the Gnome people and Ubuntu's Unity people will meet and discuss the road ahead.

But there's a big difference between using tablet and a pc. The behaviour isn't the same. Who wants to use and iPad or a tablet to write on? Then you need a keyboard, and why not directly buy a pc?

confused
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2maybe
2maybe●Agder, Aust-Agder Norway
Aug 11, 2012●32 Blogs●272 Comments
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well, I haven't really heard anyone say this. I heard some say the developers wanted something simpler then the old desktop, which doesn't make much sense to me. But - most free distribution take a lot of - not so good programs - almost forcing it on people. Then debug it and give feedback to developers. So, I thought it could make sense to come up with something that may run on tablets - as I don't consider the gnome community as dumb, - I am inclined to believe there is some well thought of idea behind it, else I don't see the justification for it. My hunch.
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2maybe
2maybe●Agder, Aust-Agder Norway
Aug 12, 2012●32 Blogs●272 Comments
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this is Mate, mate grin - been using some tweaked lxde for some time.
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Zebaztian
ZebaztianOP●Oslo, Norway
Aug 12, 2012●10 Blogs●95 Comments
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I tried to find the statement I wrote about before, but I can't find it now. I will continue searching...

Here is someone who doesn't like Windows 8, Gnome3 or Unity:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/virtualization/i-hate-unity-i-hate-gnome-i-hate-windows-8-the-ultimate-desktop-search-continues/4089
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HuggerMan4U
HuggerMan4U●Kent, Washington USA
Aug 14, 2012●85 Blogs●1,279 Comments
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I think I might have NVIDIA on my desktop computer, Explorer 2007, Vista. Because the Office expired and I refused to buy it, I went to Open Office 3.4. Now I can see and work with any Microsoft file I want without paying a penny to Microsoft. Take that, Microsoft! banana
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Zebaztian
ZebaztianOP●Oslo, Norway
Aug 14, 2012●10 Blogs●95 Comments
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Huggerman4U, You should also try the forked version of OpenOffice, called LibreOffice:
http://www.libreoffice.org

Because since Oracle bought Sun (who developed OpenOffice from StarOffice), the development of OpenOffice is discontinued. Former members of OpenOffice started to work on LibreOffice, which is a fork of OpenOffice.
Read more here:
http://www.icewalkers.com/articles/libreoffice-vs-openoffice.html


Then for a quick start of a word editing program, I will have to warmly advice AbiWord from Abisource.
http://www.abisource.com
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