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Trivia: Why Penguin is Linux Logo?

Nov15th
2007 5 Comments

Written by Sathya

Penguin as logo/mascot for Linux was discussed first in early 1996 by several people in the linux-kernel mailing list. The idea of such mascot came from Alan Cox first. Among many other suggestions made by different people there were parodies of other operating system logos, sharks or even eagles.

At some point Linus Torvalds casually mentioned that he was rather fond of penguins and it stopped the debates at once.

The first person called the penguin “Tux” was James Hughes who said that it stood for “(T)orvalds (U)ni(X)”. Tux was designed for a Linux logo contest.

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Ubuntu: Just how popular is it?

Nov5th
2007 1 Comment

Written by Sathya

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 average number of hits per day that each distro’s page gets on the DistroWatch.com site
Website popularity using
- netCraft Ratings
- Alexa Ratings
Blogging Trends using
- Technorati
- BlogPulse

and of course using the 2 big daddies, Google Trends and Digg

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Everex Readies Sub-$300 Linux Notebooks

Nov3rd
2007 Leave a Comment

Written by Sathya

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 access to Web sites like Facebook and multiple Google Web applications.

The company also plans to introduce other mobile devices like ultramobile PCs, said Paul Kim, director of marketing for Everex, a U.S. subsidiary of Taiwanese firm First International Computer.

The notebooks will be introduced in the first half of next year, Kim said. The company provided no additional details, other than saying the mobile devices will be competitively priced.

The energy-efficient $198 Linux desktop from Everex, TC2502 Green gPC, was introduced in Wal-Mart retail stores Wednesday. It runs on a 1.5GHz Via C7-D processor and comes with 512M bytes of RAM, an 80G byte hard drive, a DVD player and an Ethernet port. It does not include a monitor.

“The intent of GOS is to take [Linux] to the consumer and do what Steve Jobs did with Mac OS X — to take an alternative OS and package it for the consumer,” said David Liu, founder of GOS.

Microsoft‘s Windows Vista OS has done a lot of damage to the low-end PC market, so there is a great opportunity for a smaller and leaner OS, Liu said. Linux has come a long way and could grab an audience in the low-end market, Liu said.

Continue reading at PCWorld

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Multimedia-centric Linux OS adds A/V goodies

Nov3rd
2007 Leave a Comment

Written by Sathya

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 company says.

The updated offering, codenamed “Kessem,” features 3D OpenGL, a TV/video/file streaming server and client, Cinelerra, Rosegarden, Audacity, and an assortment of sound manipulating effect tools, synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers, the company said on its website.

New in the update is VideoLAN’s cross-platform media player, VLC Media Player. According to VideoLAN, VLC Media Player supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs. It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features like video on demand (VoD) and on-the-fly transcoding.

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Opera 9.5 Beta Released

Oct25th
2007 Leave a Comment

Written by Sathya

Opera 9.5 beta is available for download! Since the first alpha release hundreds of bugs have been fixed. Website rendering has been significantly improved, along with performance, stability and usability.

Opera Link
With Opera Link, it’s possible to get access to your bookmarks and Speed Dials everywhere. Get Opera Mini 4 beta and login to Opera Link to get your desktop bookmarks, or login to link.opera.com to access your bookmarks with any other browser.

The Desktop Team would like to thank everyone in the community for testing the weeklies, reporting bugs, and giving feedback on this blog and the forums!
Enjoy the Rock Opera launch party , and don’t forget to join the online celebrations if you can’t be there.

Changelogs: Unix

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Linux Mint 3.1 Celena Light Edition

Oct21st
2007 Leave a Comment

Written by Sathya

Soon after the release of Linux Mint 3.1 “Celena” developers of Linux Mint have released Linux Mint “Celena” Light Edition.

The purpose of the Light Edition is to bring a version of Linux Mint which doesn’t contain:

proprietary software
patented technologies
support for restricted formats

In some countries where the legislation allows software patents to be enforced the Light Edition provides a way for users to legally download Linux Mint.

The following components are not present in this Light Edition:

Macromedia Flash
Support for encrypted DVDs
Windows codecs
Support for restricted multimedia formats
Unrar
Sun Java (replaced by GIJ)

This edition includes all other technologies from Celena and among them: mintAssistant and mintUpload.

Note: You can transform Linux Mint “Light Edition” into Linux Mint “Main Edition” by installing “Multimedia Support” once the system is installed on your computer.

From: Linux Mint Website

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Linux Mint 3.1 Celena

Oct21st
2007 1 Comment

Written by Sathya

This is Linux Mint 3.1, codename Celena, based on Cassandra and compatible with Ubuntu Feisty and its repositories.

Celena is using Cassandra’s base (kernel 2.6.20-15, Gnome 2.18).

What’s new in Celena
READ MORE »

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Some Free Games For Linux

Oct20th
2007 2 Comments

Written by Sathya

A round-up of fun Linux diversions.

When people talk about computer gaming these days, they invariably mean commercial games running on a Windows platform. Few people realize that Linux can be more than just a very good Web or file server. Even fewer people are aware of the many open-source or otherwise freely available games available for Linux.

Some of the games I highlight in this article require OpenGL in order to run. Others have multiplayer capability. A few will run on a quite modest Linux workstation. All of them are fun and worth installing and playing.

These Include

AstroMenace
Deadly Rooms of Death
WarZone 2100
The Battle For Wesnoth
Torcs
BZFlag
SauerBraten

Continue reading at Linux Journal

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Bhutan Deploys Linux

Oct18th
2007 Leave a Comment

Written by Sathya

The Bhutan government liked its first taste of Linux so much that it has come back for seconds, releasing an updated version of its Debian-based operating system that it launched last year.

Launched at the start of this month, Dzongkha Debian Linux is a Debian-based Linux operating system built in and for the national language, Dzongkha. It can be easily installed on any PC or used as a Live CD.

The updated version will fully support Dzongkha computing on standard programs and applications like word processing, spreadsheets, power point presentations, Web browsing and chatting.

Department of information and technology officials said this version also has the provision to use Dzongkha in graphics software like Adobe Photoshop, and multimedia applications.

Head developer of the Dzongkha Debian Linux project, Pema Geley said in a press statement that the first version of Dzongkha Linux was not compatible with most computers, so the operating system has now been updated and made stable.

Developed over a period of 13 months and at about US$80,000, the upgraded version has also dual booting system. It can coexist with both Mac and Windows operating systems.

Plans are apparently also underway to develop software like Text to Speech, Speech Recognition, and Optical Character Recognition on Dzongkha Debian Linux in the second phase.

The Live CDs are available for free from the Department of Information and Technology.

The Debian installer supports 58 languages in total. Several languages even have all texts translated in the installer. KDE and GNOME are also available in many languages.

Source: PC World

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Linux problems with solutions

Oct14th
2007 Leave a Comment

Written by Sathya

Found this blog while surfing. Very useful!

These are some various linux/unix problems I’ve encountered over the years, but which I was not able to find a solution for online. Hopefully this will save you the trouble I had.
by Vidar Holen
Homepage

Problem:
Network interface (or anything else on the pci bus) says “SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable”
Cause:
No IRQ assigned to the device, check /proc/pci (irq says 0)
Solution:
Enter the bios setup (F1 or Del on boot), disable the option ‘Plug n Play OS’.
Reason:
This will make your bios set up IRQs for you.

Problem:
USB mouse using /dev/psaux, the ps/2 mouse device.
Cause:
Bios usb legacy support in action, probably because Linux didn’t probe for USB devices (which causes the bios to release control of them).
Solution:
Compile the kernel with USB support, Input Core and USB HID.
Reason:
Duh.

Problem:
USB mouse still doesn’t work on /dev/input/mice, but /dev/psaux, even when USB support is compiled in.
Cause:
Legacy USB support again. You might not have compiled in support for your USB chipset (the UHCI parts in USB support).
Solution:
Compile UHCI. If not working, try the alternate drivers.
Reason:
Duh.

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Posts tagged web

Trivia: Why Penguin is Linux Logo?

Ubuntu: Just how popular is it?

Everex Readies Sub-$300 Linux Notebooks

Multimedia-centric Linux OS adds A/V goodies

Linux Mint 3.1 Celena Light Edition

Linux Mint 3.1 Celena

Some Free Games For Linux

Bhutan Deploys Linux

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