Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Ubuntu Live is a vibrant and important gathering of IT professionals, government and business leaders, educators, community leaders, enterprise and business users. The conference brings together the people who deploy and manage Ubuntu in organizations, companies offering services and solutions based on Ubuntu, customers of those services, users of Ubuntu, ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Nokia, one of the leading cell-phone manufacturers will acquire Trolltech as announced by Nokia today. Trolltech which designed the Qt toolkit, on which KDE is based upon.
As per the Press release,
Espoo, Finland and Oslo, Norway - Nokia and Trolltech ASA today announced that they have entered into an agreement that ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Almost everyone would be knowing about ASUS eeePC by now. For the uninitiated, The ASUS eee PC is a subnotebook. The eeePC is powered by a 900 MHz Intel Celeron-M ULV 353 processor, features 512MB of DDR2 RAM and uses Xandros as it's OS and has an Integrated Intel ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Being a Linux user can be really funny. You just go =)) reading few ignorant Windows users' comments on How Linux is crap bla bla bla. Today's source for making me laugh comes by way of Christopher Dawson's article on ZDNet on Why Linux Will Not Displace Windows(a rather nicely ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Virtualization is a concept most likely you will be familiar of.
Take an example. Consider PSCX. It's an emulator, which allows you you to play PS2 games on a PC right? That's basically virtualization at work. Virtualization is a fancy name for emulation. Virtualization software allows you to virtualize a machine, ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
openSUSE 11 Roadmap overview
Dec 6 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 0
Jan 17 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1
Feb 07 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2
March 18 openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3
April 17 openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1
May 2 openSUSE 11.0 Beta 2
May 13 openSUSE 11.0 Beta 3
May 29 openSUSE 11.0 Release Candidate 1
June ...
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
With the new year beginning we kick start major development into the next version of openSUSE: openSUSE 11.0. A very early alpha version, Alpha 1, is now available for download and testing.
The Beautiful New Look of the Installer
Despite many other products being developed in parallel to Factory,
we have seen a ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Here's something which made me go :o
Kaj Arno:
After all the industry speculation about MySQL being a “hot 2008 IPO”, this probably takes most of us by surprise — users, community members, customers, partners, and employees. And for all of these stakeholders, it may take some time to digest what this ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Brandon over at LinuxFUD has posted about the top 10 list of themes used by anti-Linux FUD campaigners.
He states,
The following is my Top 10 list of themes used by anti-Linux FUD campaigns. This list is based on observations made over my years of following the Linux market. The ranking loosely ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
PC vendor Lenovo has promised ThinkPads with pre-installed Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 for some time now. Lenovo will deliver the goods the week of Jan. 14. Lenovo will release pre-installed SLED 10 on its Intel Centrino processor-powered ThinkPad T61 and R61 14-inch-wide notebooks. In February, Lenovo's pre-integrated ...
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