Archive for January, 2008

Ubuntu Live 2008: Take Ubuntu Further

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, ...

Nokia To Acquire Trolltech

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 ...

Fedora 8 and Compiz Fusion on ASUS eeePC 701

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 ...

Linux Needs Windows To Run!

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 ...

Virtualization Concepts And Basics For Dummies

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, ...

openSUSE 11 Roadmap

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 ...

openSUSE 11 Alpha 1

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 ...

Sun Buys MySQL

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 ...

Top 10 Linux FUD Patterns

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 ...

Lenovo Delivers SUSE Linux Based Laptops

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 ...