Archive for October 11th, 2007
Mandriva rolls out Linux 2008
Lately, in the Linux desktop races, distributions like Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS and openSUSE have been taking most of the headlines. Older Linux company Mandriva isn’t ready to concede the desktop market to these Linux distributions as it releases its newest version, Mandriva Linux 2008.
Mandriva launched its latest community desktop Linux distribution, Mandriva Linux 2008, on [...]
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10 Rocking Features in 10 Days: Day 3: Sharing your computer with Fast User Switching
Corey Burger in his third part of the 10 part series writes
Yesterday we took a look at all the handy new features of X in Ubuntu 7.10 and today we turn to Fast User Switching which allows you to easily share your computer with others
What is Fast User Switching?
Having different people access your computer using [...]
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GCC 4.2.2 Released
Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.2.2 saying, “GCC 4.2.2 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.2.1 relative to previous GCC releases.” He adds, “the compilers in this release are covered by GNU General Public License version 3,” making GCC 4.2.2 the first released under the GPLv3.
GCC is the GNU [...]
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10 Rocking Features in 10 Days: Day 2: Bulletproof X and Graphical X configuration
Corey Burger continues in Part 2 of the 10 part series in The Fridge: Yesterday we kicked this whole thing off and took a look at Deskbar and Tracker. Today we turn our attention to X, the graphical subsystem of any Ubuntu (or Linux or Unix machine). As any existing Ubuntu user knows, not only [...]
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