Archive for the ‘linux’ Category
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Max Spevack, Fedora's Project Leader speaks about the release of Fedora 8 at the Mailing List
On Thursday November 8th (about 3:00 PM GMT), Fedora 8 will go live to the world, and you will be able to download it at http://fedoraproject.org
The bits are all finalized, the mirrors are synced, and the ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
StarryHope has a nice article on one of the most popular Linux distributions, Ubuntu. This article aims to find out just how popular Ubuntu really is, and although doesn't follow any "scientific" methods, some of the tools used to find the popularity include
DistroWatch.com - which is simply a ranking of the ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
After introducing a $198 Linux desktop this week, PC vendor Everex said it will bring Linux laptops under $300 to users next year.
The laptops will come with 12.1-inch to 17-inch screens and run the GOS version of the OS, built on Ubuntu Linux 7.10. It will include icons providing one-click ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
StartCom has updated its multimedia-oriented Linux desktop with new features targeted at audio/video fans. While it can also serve as a general purpose desktop, StartCom MultiMedia Edition version ML-5.0.6 comes preloaded with a variety of tools to hear, view, edit, mix, dub, finish, and share music and video projects, the ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
The live version of openSUSE 10.3 is now available as a GNOME or KDE CD. Both contain the same software as the 1 CD installation versions would provide you with, but as a live version. The live system can be used as a productive system or rescue system. You ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
This excellent Linux installation guide was written by my friend, "The Trojan" initially on the CHIP forums. So all credits to him, for writing this excellent post(and note that I've taken his permission to reproduce it here).
I am writing this down considering the fact that most of the ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
This is the first BETA release of Linux Mint 4.0, codename Daryna, based on Celena and compatible with Ubuntu Gutsy and its repositories.
Daryna is using Gutsy's package base (kernel 2.6.22, Gnome 2.20, OpenOffice 2.3, Thunderbird 2.0...etc).
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
AMD and ATI weren't fibbing. The graphics company, now part of Advanced Micro Devices, has released high-end Catalyst 7.10 graphics drivers for the Linux desktop.
ATI, once AMD bought it, promised to be more friendly to Linux desktop users. While this release still contains some proprietary bits, it does offer advanced ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Gobuntu is a GNU/Linux operating system, derived from Ubuntu, that endeavors to adhere to the Free Software Foundations four freedoms and intends to provide a base for other free software platforms to build upon with minimal modification required. It does this by only including open-source non-restricted software. This means there ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Rudd- has written in his blog about Distribution X downloading oh-so-many updates, everyday. He says:
For the last six months, I’ve been reading article after article spewing the same bovine manure: Look at how many updates Distribution X issued! How can it be more secure than Windows? Let’s bury that stupidity ...
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