Upgrades Lift Ubuntu and SUSE
Upgrades Lift Ubuntu and SUSE
eWeek - Ubuntu and SUSE both ship with The GNOME Project’s GNOME 2.12, the latest version of the popular desktop environment. GNOME 2.12, which was released in September, includes some interface improvements in the system’s Nautilus file manager, such as a
Transcript: Outlook: Your Pick of the Technologically Illiterate
Washington Post - Not Ubuntu, surely, since it’s so darn easy. Perhaps Debian, and ask them to build a secure server? Garrett M. Graff: I’d be content if I thought they just understood what open source is and that Firefox, Linux, and Wikipedia, for whatever their
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
MPAA’s uni piracy-busting toolkit forced offline
The Register - A suite of open source applications was cobbled together to make colleges spy on their students’ file-sharing habits and encourage blocking. The package was based on Ubuntu, the desktop Linux distribution. That would have been fine, except that the
MPAA Takes University Toolkit Offline For GPL Violation
Tech Dirt - Well, some folks noticed that the toolkit was built on open source technologies, such as Ubuntu Linux, though the MPAA (irony alert) didn’t appear to be abiding by the GPL license associated with the software. It didn’t take long for an Ubuntu
Open source model impacts EnterpriseDB staff
Channel Register - graphics memory Dell marries WPP in big ads push Virgin downs 1and1 and Germany IBM sues seller over alleged fake ThinkPad batteries HP delivers PC Q3 smackdown Nvidia GeForce 9s due Feb ‘08? Going green is good, but is it secure? Dell moves 40,000 Ubuntu
Counterfeit Vista rate half that of XP
Channel Register - Install Ubuntu (Over a “trial” vista busniess install, none the less!) and plugged in the ethernet cable temporarily, hit the chat room on freenone IRC, and within 15 minutes I was up and running on wireless. Graphics card was next, which took about
Critics rap Microsoft safety study of IE, Firefox
ZDNet - Despite Mozilla ending support for Firefox 1.5 in May 2007, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS–which integrates that version of Firefox–has committed to providing security support until 2009. Likewise, Novell Suse Linux offers support for Firefox 1.5 until 2013
Leopard Runs on PCs
PC World - Please Wait Leopard Runs on PCs: Steve Jobs can’t be happy that hackers already have his latest OS running on less-expensive PC hardware . I sure am, though. Gutsy Gibbon: The latest alliterative animal release of Ubuntu is the best yet. Hardy
Mark Rein on content: “This is why we’ve made the game for the PS3
Ars Technica - My copy of Unreal Tournament 3 came in the mail yesterday, and I have to say that it has been a blast to get back into a Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) alpha 1 officially released Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 1 has officially been released. This early release of
Ubuntu Gutsy Release Candidate Review
Tectonic - After growing tired of install errors with Simply Mepis 7.0 Beta 5, I finally wrote it off as a Beta bug with my architecture on my notebook. After all, clean partitions and being able to run other releases of Mepis indicate that there are some bugs
Linux, Unix, Mac, Windows PCs get authentication integration
Network World Fusion - Open, which will be licensed under GPL and LGPL, will ship with the next versions of Red Hat and Ubuntu, according to company officials. A deal with Novell is in the works. Likewise Enterprise 4.0 is
MPAA’s University Toolkit hit with DMCA takedown notice after GPL
Ars Technica - The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently released a software toolkit designed to help universities detect instances of potentially illegal filesharing on school networks. The toolkit is based on the increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Weekly Report: 25th November - 2nd of December
Softpedia - A lot has happened in the Ubuntu world this week! Let’s start with the first alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (codename Hardy Heron) which has been delayed for two days and it hit the download mirrors worldwide on the 1st of December. Not much to see
Microchip Tech: Faster, Better, Cheaper
NewsFactor Network - “Today, a typical PC sells for less than 30 percent of the price of a comparable unit in 1995, but today’s model is 100 times more powerful,” said George Scalise, president of the Semiconductor Industry Association. “We can expect to see similar cost
Has it been a week with Ubuntu already?
IT-Analysis.com - Its been an interesting experience so far—notably my reading and writing of blogs has suffered as I’ve been tinkering and tweaking, but I think I now have a stable environment, notably: Ubuntu 7.10 running Gnome VirtualBox for Outlook, Office and
Behavioral Ad Targeting Comes of Age
NewsFactor Network - “At the end of the day, if behavioral targeting is being used and consumers get annoyed, they are going to take it out on the advertiser or the publisher that placed the ad,” said Michael Cassidy, chief executive of Undertone Networks, which
Likewise Software Kicks Off Open Source Authentication Project
Forbes - These partners include Red Hat and Canonical, the sponsor of Ubuntu. “We are excited about the Likewise Open project and the solutions that it will provide Canonical’s enterprise customers and other major deployments of Ubuntu,” said Mark
Yahoo Adds More Beef to Top Searches Report
TechNewsWorld - Top del.icio.us tags were design, HDTV, games, music, Web 2.0, video, Ubuntu, travel, photography and Mac. Getting Green Environment and product recalls were two categories that just emerged this year. Recycling, global warming, Freecycle, Earth and
Windows Live Messenger 9.0 private beta leaked
Ars Technica - Over the last few days, Microsoft invited 5,000 private testers to try out Windows Live Messenger 9.0 beta. A major Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) alpha 1 officially released Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 1 has officially been released. This early release of
Recipient E-mail
DailyTech - Also, wouldn’t buying a Dell system pre-installed with Ubuntu as well as Dell extended support and warranty cover your Linux support? Anyway I’m tired of this Windows vs. Linux crap already. IMO they are both excellent systems. Windows makes an
Sun itching to release its virtualization platform
Channel Register - graphics memory Dell marries WPP in big ads push Virgin downs 1and1 and Germany IBM sues seller over alleged fake ThinkPad batteries HP delivers PC Q3 smackdown Nvidia GeForce 9s due Feb ‘08? Going green is good, but is it secure? Dell moves 40,000 Ubuntu
MPAA’s student P2P sniffer pulled over copyright issues
Beta News - As part of the organization’s fight against the pirating of movies, the Motion Picture Association of America had been urging universities to install an Ubuntu-based toolkit that would assist it in tracking and reporting students who were
Billionaire Invests $60 Million in Faceboook
NewsFactor Network - A $60 million investment in Facebook from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing comes just after Facebook suffered a loss on its Beacon advertising program in which products that Facebook users purchased from other sites would appear on friends’ Facebook
