Sub $200 Linux machine is a sell out
Sub $200 Linux machine is a sell out
The Inquirer - Under the bonnet is a cut down version of Ubuntu, called Enlightenment . This GUI is a lot lighter than Gnome or KDE and is a hell of a lot faster than Vista. It also does not need much of a spec to get a decent effect. Having a look at the screenshots
Microsoft Consent Decree, Phase X
Network World Fusion - Can Microsoft compete effectively when retail customers can “test drive” Linux machines sitting right next to Windows machines. Could Vista beat Ubuntu “Gutsy Gibbon”, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop with a full suite of preinstalled applications
Native Visions presentation held at Rapid River schools
Escanaba Daily Press - The presentation was sponsored by the Ubuntu Circle, with support from the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and the Bay College Global Awareness Committee. In addition to the presentation, sixth- and seventh-graders made dreamcatchers with
25 Skills Every Man Should Know: Your Ultimate DIY Guide
Popular Mechanics - Of course, your best bet for securing a PC would be to use Linux — Ubuntu is ridiculously easy to install. 144. RE: 25 Skills Every Man Should Know: Your Ultimate DIY Guide Cool list, but what anxieties we all have! Please add: escaping from a stuck
Open-Sourcing Java Will Create Incompatibility Risk, Sun Exec Warns
eWeek - Sun has engaged directly with the communities on this, with the Sun Java legal, marketing and engineering teams all engaging with the Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo communities to work out what was wrong with the license and to come up with a new one that
Help the new Zone-H to define its audience
Zone-H - itself would not be critical if only the attacked website would not be hosted on the same server of the Commercial Linux Association of Denmark from which legitimate users can download the latest localized releases of various Linux flavour (Ubuntu
Dell gives more hints about new form factors
Beta News - by acquiring iSCSI SAN and virtualization specialists EqualLogic for $1.4 billion. The acquisition was said to be a move toward building a storage channel. The company has also begun to offer open source operating systems as options, such as Ubuntu 7
Vista woes lead IT pros to Macs, Linux
MacNN - Some 25 percent of those surveyed chose Red Hat Linux as a viable alternative to Vista, while SUSE Linux and Ubuntu each attracted 18 percent of respondents. “Clearly many companies are serious about this alternative, with 9 percent of those saying
Linux Lite: 5 Tiny Distros That Pack A Big Bang
Intelligent Enterprise - If you’re curious about using a given distro from a USB flash drive, the Pen Drive Linux site is a repository of tutorials explaining how to take many common Linux distributions and run them from such devices. Ubuntu, Knoppix, Gentoo, PcLinuxOS, SLAX
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VMware Updates Its Free Offering
eWeek - The new version will offer new support for more operating systems, including Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Ubuntu 7.10. Unlike VMware products, such as the Virtual Infrastructure 3 suite that allows for bare-metal
Zonbu has alluring features, price
Raleigh News & Observer - doubtless hold on to the lion’s share of desktop PCs, but as the attractions of other options become clear, I can see future computers designed from scratch to run multiple operating systems. You can do that right now — I’m running a PC with Ubuntu
Gentoo, Linux? Yes, Sometimes
eWeek - Along similar lines, we’ve found that Gentoo typically doesn’t manage to keep up with fast-moving distributions such as Fedora or Ubuntu in providing “stable” versions of key application components—that is, application versions that the Gentoo team
Varsity honours technology innovation frontrunners
Engineering News - van Huyssteen , with the Nemo key ring, that helps to find lost gadgets in the home, Ruth Davies and Heinrich Schultz , with Shpinx Security, a security system that sends an SMS to the owner when an artwork is stolen, and Tony Plotz , with his Ubuntu
Software Microsoft Releases Vista SP1 RC Preview to Testers
DailyTech - While Apple is using its latest round of TV commercials to further push the butcher knife into Windows Vista — specifically, Microsoft’s decision to extend the sales of Windows XP and allow users to downgrade Vista to Windows XP — the boys in
Modest new PC costs just $199
Baltimore Sun - Rather than using Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system, it comes with a customized version of Ubuntu Linux. The interface is a desktop program called Enlightenment. Here, it’s been tweaked to be as simple as possible, and it reminds me a
Ubuntu Let Us Play, Now Grab Our DIY OS Pre-Giveaway!
Popular Mechanics - Published in the December 2007 issue. We’re excited about our Mini Monster PC with its ridiculously oversize data locker, but we’re sad that only one person can win it. So to give a little something to the rest of our geeky readers out there, we
