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Teach me Linux - A Compilation of Linux FAQs and Guides
2008-03-03 16:53:00 Picture this. You’re fascinated by Linux . You always wanted to try it out. Now that you want to try it out, or have tried out the LiveCD but want to know more details, where do you look for? Of course Google and the Internet is always there. But that would require the right set ... More About: Guides , Compilation
Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire innotek
2008-02-27 13:57:00 Sun Microsystems is on a major Open Source Acquistion spree. First it was it’s MySQL acquisition, now it’s moved on to acquire innotek. For those who’re still wondering who or what innotek is, innotek is the developer of the hugely popular Virtualizer, VirtualBox. According to Sun’s Press Release Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that it has ... More About: Sun Microsystems , Acquire , Agreement
Ubuntu goes mobile: Ubuntu Mobile
2008-02-26 13:24:00 Introducing Ubuntu Mobile - full Internet, no compromise Ubuntu Mobile is an Ubuntu edition that targets an exciting new class of computers called Mobile Internet Devices. Ubuntu Mobile, based on the world’s most popular Linux distribution, and MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, are redefining what can be done in mobile computing. Ubuntu Mobile, a fully open ...
Presenting Ubunti 8.10ish - The Intrepid Ibex
2008-02-21 11:41:00 Mark Shuttleworth today posted on the Ubuntu Mailing list, what is planned for the next version of Ubuntu, titled The Intrepid Ibex which would most likely have a version number of 8.10 and be released around October 2008. To quote him, With Hardy now past feature-freeze it’s time to start to plan features that are being lined ... More About: Presenting
Free Software Easter Eggs
2008-02-21 05:25:00 Â The good folks over at Free Software Magazine got bored writing regular articles on free software. For some chuckles, they decided to research on some easter eggs. Here’s what they found. What is it with cows and GNU/Linux? Let me answer my own self-serving question and show you some varied and slightly bizarre examples of human ... More About: Eggs , Easter , Easter Eggs
andLinux - Run Linux on Windows seamlessly without virtualizers!
2008-02-19 18:22:00 andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]) andLinux uses CoLinux as its core which is confusing for many people. CoLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is like VMware or Virtual PC, CoLinux differs ... More About: News
Amarok tech preview released for Windows
2008-02-15 09:22:00 For all those people who miss Amarok badly while on Windows , well fear not, your dream has come true….almost. With the release of KDE4.0 which uses Qt4 framework, which has been GPL’d and available for Windows and MacOSX, a lot of effort has been put in to port KDE4 for Windows, which allows Amarok to ... More About: Preview , General , Tech , Released
Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3 Impressions
2008-02-14 08:24:00 Yesterday, Mozilla announced that the 3rd beta of the next version of their immensely popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox would be available for download. I’d posted earlier on the impressive changes between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Beta 2. So what does the third Beta bring? Let’s have a look. Share This More About: Reviews , Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3 Now Available for Download
2008-02-13 12:27:00 Mozilla Developer Center reports that Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now available for download. New features and changes in this milestone include: Improved security features such as: better presentation of website identity and security including support for Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager. Improved ease of ... More About: News , Mozilla Firefox , Download , Mozilla
Announcing openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2
2008-02-11 05:48:00 Only three weeks after Alpha 1, we?re glad to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2. There are various exciting changes in there that we would like to have feedback on. For more screenshots head over to the Screenshots/openSUSE 11.0 Alpha2 wiki page Changes since openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1 KDE 4.0.1 replaced KDE 3.5.8 as default KDE GNOME ...
Marble?s Secrets: Part I
2008-02-11 05:41:00 If you’ve ever followed KDE 4 development then you’ve probably heard about Marble . Marble is a virtual globe which displays the earth. So Marble can be used as a nice digital replacement for your desktop globe at home where you can look up places. But wait! There’s more to it: Actually these days Marble can also ... More About: General , Secrets , Part
Fedora 9 Alpha Released
2008-02-05 19:50:00 The alpha release of Fedora ’s next version, Fedora 9 was release today The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with the testing of Rawhide: representing a sanitised snapshot of Fedora’s development branch, which sees rapid changes and will become the next major release, it should boot on the ... More About: News , Released
NVIDIA Quietly Releases 171.05 Drivers
2008-02-02 18:33:00 Last night NVIDIA quietly uploaded a new Linux display driver to their FTP server. This new driver is tagged 171.05, while the latest public driver has been 169.09. Having already three releases in the 169.xx series, this is a moderate update to 171.xx, but according to NVIDIA it’s not for everyone. ... More About: News , Drivers
ATI Radeon HD 3650 Reviewed
2008-02-02 16:09:00 Last week AMD introduced the ATI Radeon HD 3400 and 3600 series, which are the new low-end graphics processors compared to the Radeon HD 3800 series. These budget graphics cards are branded as the Radeon HD 3450, 3470, and 3650 and are all available for under $100 USD. While they ... More About: News
Ubuntu Live 2008: Take Ubuntu Further
2008-01-30 16:50:00 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, and the folks who ... More About: News , Ubuntu , Reilly , Convention
Nokia To Acquire Trolltech
2008-01-28 10:49:00 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 Nokia will make a ... More About: News , Nokia , Acquire
Fedora 8 and Compiz Fusion on ASUS eeePC 701
2008-01-24 19:39:00 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 GMA 900 as its ... More About: Asus , Fusion , How-To , Fedora , Compiz
Linux Needs Windows To Run!
2008-01-22 18:55:00 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 written article, though). The ...
Virtualization Concepts And Basics For Dummies
2008-01-21 20:20:00 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, create a “virtual” PC ... More About: Dummies , General , Concepts , Ware , Virtualization
openSUSE 11 Roadmap
2008-01-20 10:32:00 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 12 openSUSE 11.0 ...
openSUSE 11 Alpha 1
2008-01-20 10:17:00 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 heavy stream of development ...
Sun Buys MySQL
2008-01-16 18:11:00 Here’s something which made me go 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 means. Depending on one?s ... More About: Mysql
Top 10 Linux FUD Patterns
2008-01-15 19:06:00 Brandon over at Linux FUD 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 correlates to frequency of ... More About: General , Patterns
Lenovo Delivers SUSE Linux Based Laptops
2008-01-15 07:09:00 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 Novell Linux offering will expand to include some Penryn-based ThinkPads. ... More About: News , Laptops , Suse
A Case of How NOT to Remaster A Distro
2008-01-13 17:57:00 While browsing through TuxMachine’s articles, I read this article. Budding people interested in creating a Distro , make sure you read this. One of the core principles of open source development is ?freedom?. As such, there are few limitations for developers and end users to take the work of others and move it into a direction ... More About: Case , Aster
KDE 4.0 Release
2008-01-13 14:53:00 After countless days of waiting, KDE4.0, the first release of the KDE4 framework was released on Friday, January 11. Here’s an official announcement from KDE’s site: The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to ... More About: Release
25 Top 3D Linux Games
2008-01-12 13:34:00 One of CHIP-India’s forum members, Sujith Poojari had posted a link to 25 Top 3D games for Linux . Some of them I’ve already played like Armagetron Advanced, BZFlag, Sauerbraten, Scorched 3D, TORCS while some others unknown to me, such as Racer(been playing it recently, good graphics! controls need refinement though), PlaneShift etc. So enjoy these ... More About: Games
Apologies
2008-01-09 18:55:00 Dear Readers, If you’re one of the few people who’ve been following and reading my articles, first up, thanks for visiting my sbblog.Secondly, I would like to apologise for lack of updates on my blog from my end. I know I was supposed to cover the Run down to KDE 4.0 release, but since ...
SuSE Linux 10.0 Reaches End of Life(EOL)
2008-01-08 18:23:00 Marcus Meissner posted on the openSUSE Mailing list that SUSE Linux 10.0 has reached End of Life and will no longer be supported. From the mailing list post, Hi, With the release of an nmap bugfix on December 20 we have released the last update for SUSE Linux 10.0. It is now officially discontinued and out of support. SUSE Linux ... More About: Suse
The Rundown to KDE 4.0 Release Part 1 - The Visual Eye-Candy
More articles from this author:2008-01-01 19:50:00 With the first release of KDE4 framework, KDE 4.0 just few days away — as the above counter shows, the next few articles will have a look at some of the features new to KDE 4.0 In case you’re still wondering what the KDE4 hoopla is all about, then keep reading. KDE4 is the next-generation ... More About: Visual , Candy , Release , Part , Eye candy 1, 2, 3 |
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