Week in review: Teaming up against Google
Week in review: Teaming up against Google
CNET News - The report’s author, Microsoft’s Jeffrey Jones, says those numbers compare with more than 100 vulnerabilities fixed in Mac OS X Tiger’s first year, more than 220 flaws in Ubuntu version 6.06 in its first year, and 360 flaws fixed for Red Hat
Open source rising
Express Computer India - Ubuntu notwithstanding (it’s hardware support is bad even compared to other Linux distros such as PCLinuxOS), Linux has a long way to go before it’s usable on the desktop. My biggest beef was with the font rendering and hardware
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Dayton Daily News - There’s still hope if you have the do-it-yourself daring to combine the free, open-source operating system Ubuntu Linux with an inexpensive used personal computer. Linux, a community-developed operating system, comes in many flavors, including Red Hat
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Vista SP1 will contain undocumented fixes
ZDNet Blogs - in that kind of comment does throw some doubt over a report by Jeff Jones, Security Strategy Director in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, in which he claims that Vista had fewer vulnerabilities in the first year than Windows XP, Ubuntu
KDE 4.1 Release Schedule and Goals
Softpedia - If you want to install KDE 4.0 on your Ubuntu PC and don’t know how to do it, we wrote for you a step-by-step tutorial about this. Get it here ! Download the Kubuntu 7.10 KDE 4.0 right now from Softpedia . Download the openSUSE-based KDE 4.0 Live CD
Linspire offers custom Linux builds
Infomatics - But the tool set will also provide the ability to quickly produce clean Debian or Ubuntu-based desktop Linux operating systems with customisable software stacks and other features. As a desktop Linux operating system is deployed into the channel, a
Novell Revamps openSUSE Community Pitch
InternetNews.com - In the battle for the heart and minds of the Linux community, community outreach matters. Aggressive outreach has been part of the recipe for success behind Red Hat’s Fedora Linux. Ubuntu has also emerged as one of the leading Linux offerings based
MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them
Popular Mechanics - there is *NOTHING*hard about using Ubuntu, it works flawlesly out of the box on most hardwere. it comes with all the softwere most people need and if you want to add something use “add remove programs”. salect what you want, hit install. much easier
News Blog: Posts tagged media
CNET News - After poking around the Linux forums, I found out that Ubuntu installs a la carte: only the truly free supporting software is included in the default installation, which excludes proprietary media players such as Adobe’s Flash and Apple’s QuickTime
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
Software ‘tweaks,’ Chinese new year delay Everex CloudBook
Computerworld - The $399 computer runs gOS, a flavor of Linux based on the popular Ubuntu distribution but with a reworked user interface aimed at smaller screens like CloudBook’s 7-in. (diagonal) display. The upcoming Chinese New Year holidays are also delaying the
More distros = more choice
Express Computer India - Even the consumer favorite, Ubuntu, is trying to make a splash in the enterprise segment with its latest offerings. Oracle has decided to enter the market by distributing a Red Hat clone under GNU licensing and by proving support at a
Ubuntu picks KVM over Xen for virtualization
CNET News - Heading in a different direction from its main rivals, Ubuntu Linux will use KVM as its primary virtualization software. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise Server both use the Xen virtualization software, a “hypervisor” layer
Some improvement needed a year after Windows Vista
Earthtimes - Caspers notes that on tests with the same kind of hardware, Vista runs slower than either XP or Linux operating system Ubuntu. Vista’s first service package is supposed to hit the market in the first quarter of 2008. It will be a collection of
Definition of: Linux
PC Magazine - More common is ” lynn -icks,” which splits the difference. No matter how you say it, Linux is very popular. See embedded Linux , KDE , GNOME , X Window , Lintel , Minix , Ubuntu , SuSE Linux , UnitedLinux , GNU , open source , Linux Foundation , Trinux , SCO and
See your link here
Computerworld - IBM plans to deliver its next versions of Lotus Notes enterprise collaboration software and Lotus Symphony office productivity applications for the first time with full support for Ubuntu Linux 7.0. Submitted by brownknight on January 24, 2008 - 19
Shift Linux 0.6.2 Available
Softpedia - Shift Linux 0.6.2 KDE4 and Shift Linux 0.6.2 Lite – specially designed for older computers. Shift Linux Lite will bring two less resource-hungry desktop managers – XFCE 4 and Fluxbox – but will have a full set of packages and utilities. Ubuntu
Can I use a Webcam on any notebook?
CNET Asia - Most Webcams do not have drivers written for Linux, so you may have to search online for third-party generic drivers (though some flavors like Ubuntu have such generic drivers built-in). In this case, we suggest bringing the laptop to the store and
News Blog: Posts by Matt Asay
CNET News - Ubuntu is making inroads at IBM, with IBM making a significant commitment to lift Ubuntu out of its alleged “community” status to true enterprise status. (It’s already enterprise-class, but perception lags technology.) IBM’s reason for its Ubuntu move
Windows Vista
Network World Fusion - They each have their advantages and disadvantages. But Linux as a desktop OS still has done little to displace Microsoft, despite the efforts of Red Hat, Ubuntu and Novell. Frankly, the most successful non-Windows desktop OS has to be the BSD-based
New Asus Eee PC Killer Spotted In the Wild: the Pioneer DreamBook
Softpedia - The processor is the most exotic part of the computer and will do a great job running Vista with an additional 512 MB RAM card. The small notebook ships with Ubuntu, but some extra bucks will let you pick either XP home, Vista, or even all of these
How to Build Cheap Linux and Windows Home Media Servers in Three Easy
Popular Mechanics - Photographs by Brad DeCecco Most home computer users think of servers as the complex machines that form the backbone of corporate computer networks. But the functional definition of a server is far more flexible than that. Essentially, any computer
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
Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” alpha 4
ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes @ 7:31 am Categories: My Linux Experience Tags: Ubuntu , Remote Desktop , Beta , Kernel , Transmission , System Monitor , Authorizations Panel , Adrian Kingsley-Hughes The final release of Ubuntu 8.04 is still about
