Monthly Archives: March 2011

When users perform a search or browse a category in a package manager, there is still a lot of options to choose from. In my user studies, all of the users were able to eventually install the software they needed, … Continue reading →

I recently needed to connect to a VPN over PPTP on either Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), and/or Windows Vista running inside VirtualBox on Ubuntu, and/or Windows Vista running normally. I was using a SpeedTouch ST516 v6 DSL modem with TekSavvy … Continue reading →

As of March 12th, 2011, Apple’s App Store contained 463,131 “apps” for download. That gives it more packages than any other package manager I studied. Despite this, users had the most difficulty finding an application to suit the purpose they … Continue reading →