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Peng’s links for Wednesday, 22 October
Posted by BostonPeng on 22 October 2008
I do have some other links I want to share with y’all today.
- Ubuntu Productivity: Re: Switch to Ubuntu Linux not Apple Mac OS. A Kubuntu user asked why people are going from Windows to the Mac OS but not to Ubuntu, and the Ubuntu Productivity blogmaster brings the not so great news: Ubuntu, and Linux distros in general, simply have a way to go before they’re as ready for Windows users than OSX is right now. Case in point from my own experiences: My local library will let you download eBooks, but they require either Mobipocket or Adobe’s Digital Editions version of their Reader software. Adobe’s app is different from their Acrobat Reader software, and is a Windows based program that has been ported to the Mac but they haven’t released a Linux version yet. The Windows version can run under WINE, but I’ll be damned if I could find a way to get the sucker so I could try it with a little software vino. Bottom line? Too many firms simply haven’t started supporting Linux yet, and that’s not even counting the game developers.
- Frank Taylor/Google Earth Blog: Links: Planet Search, Interactive KML, FlightSim, iPhone GPS. First there was the Sky layer, now you can fly through Our Solar System. Plus a new goody for fans of FlightSim in Google Earth, which reminds me I wanted to check out the openGL version of YS Flight Simulator.
- Beyond the Forecast: Human Biometeorology. Mish Michaels over in the WBZ Weather Center wrote a great piece on why our body can let us know when weather changes are coming. There was a nice piece she did for the five o’clock news yesterday but I can’t find it online yet. Hopefully I’ll have an update for you with a link before too long.
Dan Kegel said
Mobipocket Reader seems to work fine on Wine
with one of their free eBooks. Have you tried it?
I couldn’t figure out how to get Adobe Digital Editions
to install on Wine either, so I filed a bug,
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15721
Peng said
I haven’t tried Mobipocket yet but I may since I can use it on my PDA.
I see the bug you filed, as well as the response, and I can’t help but feel that the bug isn’t with WINE. It’s in how Adobe coded their Flash install applet. I’m seeing zarro way to install it under Linux until Adobe actually gives us a Linux port to try. I’ll see about either digging my old Adobe site registration out of my email archives or making a new one to add a +1 to the request for a Linux version.
Thanks for the suggestion of Mobi. I’ll check it out once I upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid.