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  • I have yet to try this out yet though.

    “Only four months after the formation of the Document Foundation by leading members of the OpenOffice.org community, it has launched LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of its alternative Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Since the fork was announced at the end [...]

  • @Gibb My buddy sent that to me, I don’t use Linux at all right now.

  • Odd.. the screenshot you linked to is not the Unity I know..

    http://www.ubuntu.com/sites/default/files/active/maverick/U3.1_unity_medium.jpg

  • Isn’t that an old screenshot?

  • Here is a preview, what do you guys think? Here is another screenshot.

  • Tosh posted an update in the group Group logo of Open Source SoftwareOpen Source Software: 2 years, 4 months ago

  • Movell owns alot of unix/linux patents… Novell had deals with microsoft.. Novell goes under, microsoft get over 800 patents

    http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/11/22/220249/Microsoft-Probably-Didnt-Just-Buy-Unix

    if microsoft gets that, OS is pretty much dead…

  • Tosh posted on the forum topic Joomla vs WordPress in the group Group logo of Open Source SoftwareOpen Source Software: 2 years, 6 months ago

    @Acezakj Also most of the GOOD components for Joomla are commercial or very hard to find a free version of what you need.

    Pretty much all the plugins for wordpress are free and they are decent too.

  • Ace posted an update in the group Group logo of Open Source SoftwareOpen Source Software: 2 years, 6 months ago

    @Tosh yes i have but not very experienced in it. (Didn’t use it for that long)

  • Tosh posted on the forum topic Joomla vs WordPress in the group Group logo of Open Source SoftwareOpen Source Software: 2 years, 6 months ago

    @Acezakj have you tried any others like Drupal?

  • Ace posted on the forum topic Joomla vs WordPress in the group Group logo of Open Source SoftwareOpen Source Software: 2 years, 6 months ago

    WordPress is noob friendly, Joomla is more advanced and i think its slightly more powerful than wordpress…but wordpress is way more organized and user friendly.

  • Ace posted an update in the group Group logo of Open Source SoftwareOpen Source Software: 2 years, 6 months ago

    For a forum i suggest vBulletin best of the best, currently running on 4.0.8

  • Here is what I use to keep track of my hours at work. I found several options some with more featured. But all I needed was a way to clock in and out and pull of report of hours to email to my boss.

    PHP Timeclock works well for my needs

    http://timeclock.sourceforge.net/

  • Tosh started the forum topic Joomla vs WordPress in the group Group logo of Open Source SoftwareOpen Source Software: 2 years, 6 months ago

    Which do you prefer? I have used both extensively and it really depends on what your going to use it for. For a blog WordPress is king, if you need a more complex site sometimes Joomla is the way to go. My other site SlySpyder.com is running on Joomla and it does exactly what I [...]