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11. November 2009 by admin.
Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala is the best, snappiest and slickest desktop Linux to date. It is easier to install, boots faster and steps up to the plate of automatically detecting and configuring hardware and peripherals. It is faster and more efficient in its use of resources, allowing you to have more and larger files and applications open at the same time without impacting performance, thus raising the bar significantly in terms of stability, flexibility and power. Pretty much everything just works and installation and configuration tasks can be accomplished simply and quickly for the most part using intuitive GUI tools.
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11. November 2009 by admin.
Ubuntu Linux, without a doubt is the most popular Linux desktop OS out there. It has come a long way since Warthy Wathog some 5 years ago. The crowning release of the distro was on the 29 of October when Karmic Koala was unleashed into the wild.
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11. November 2009 by admin.
Elive is a debian based linux live cd that runs the beautiful Enlightenment window manager. Today we’re going to take you on a visual tour of the cd and discuss how it’s progressing. There are two versions available.. a stable version which must be purchased or a development version which can be downloaded for free. We chose the latter for the purposes of this review.
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11. November 2009 by admin.
When you think about office suites, two names come to mind: Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. There is a good reason for that – they are the two powerhouses in the field. Of course there are alternatives. For Windows there is Softmaker Office
and Lotus Symphony. For the Mac there is iWork. For Linux there is Softmaker Office, Lotus Symphony, KOffice and GNOME Office. Although the vast majority of Linux users depend upon OpenOffice for their office needs, the alternatives should not be overlooked.
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11. November 2009 by admin.
LinuxCertified, the leader in Linux Laptops, Training and Services, today announced release of LC2210Si linux laptop fully supported with Ubuntu 9.10.
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11. November 2009 by admin.
For this review I picked the Mandriva Linux 2010 (Free) version. This version contains 100% free software and weighs in at a chunky 4.3GB when you download it. Now please understand that I am not a “free software fanatic” type at all. I have no problem using distros that have some proprietary software blended into them but I like to use one that doesn’t have that stuff every once in a while.
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11. November 2009 by admin.
A slightly different approach today and I hope you can relate to some of the issues I cover here. I am looking at a claim thats usually made against many outspoken people in the FOSS, but often you see it when there is no counter in an debate/argument.
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11. November 2009 by admin.
In a talk at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe in Grenoble, France, a speaker took a critical look at the design and development model of Google’s first step toward Linux.
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11. November 2009 by admin.
Amarok is a great music player for linux. In the current reales of Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic also the current stable version of Amarok was introduced into the repositories. However Amarok is under heavy development and updates won’t be included in the official repos. If you want to be up-to-date and have the latest Amarok version available, you’ll need to compile it yourself. Compiling Amarok isn’t really hard but there are a few dependencies that it needs and a few things to look out for.
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11. November 2009 by admin.
The MythTV hard disk recorder software is available in a new version that is based on Qt4 and supports new hardware and the VDPAU decoder.
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11. November 2009 by admin.
Chip makers love Linux.
That was why, in part, Intel bought Wind River.
And it is very definitely the main reason behind Cavium Networks acquisition of MontaVista Software.
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