{"id":2585,"date":"2008-11-28T19:01:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2008-11-28T19:01:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T23:01:13","slug":"opendesktoporg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/28\/opendesktoporg.html","title":{"rendered":"openDesktop.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a particular type of software, and thinking that you would like to see what open source options are out there?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opendesktop.org\/\"><strong>openDesktop.org<\/strong><\/a> describes itself as &#8220;a network of portals and community websites for open source and free software projects&#8221; and is an excellent starting point for locating what you need for your task.<\/p>\n<p>Note that much of the software is aimed at the open source community, meaning that much of it runs on linux.\u00a0 I suggest two things:\u00a0 1) you should be dual-booting linux (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.net\/\">Ubuntu<\/a> is a good place to start), if only to understand how it compares to Windows and\/or Mac; and 2) you may discover that the dual-boot option coupled with the software you find will provide you with all that you need for your tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a try!<\/p>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/153888\">linux.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for a particular type of software, and thinking that you would like to see what open source options are out there?\u00a0 openDesktop.org describes itself as &#8220;a network of portals and community websites for open source and free software projects&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/28\/opendesktoporg.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2952,2982,2966],"tags":[4090,3036,4089,4745,4092,4091],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-services","category-open-source","category-software","tag-free-software-projects","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-microsoft-windows","tag-ubuntu","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-FH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}