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A Point That Deserves Illuminating: Linux Is Not “I-Cant-Believe-Its-Not-Windows!”
The difference between consumer needs and producer needs appear to be clearly understood everywhere else.
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Conversion Tales From the Land of Linux
“I’ve converted my wife to Linux,” asserted Eric Mesa among the 100 or so comments that soon appeared on the topic. “Installed Ubuntu on her computer. She is OK with Linux 90% of the time.
Quite frankly, sometimes I think there’s nothing on the Internet I can’t get my hands on. My latest exploits have landed me a copy of the OS X Mountain Lion developer preview, which means I’ll be spending the next couple of weeks trying out all the new features, living exclusively in the OS X Mountain Lion world.
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The HeliOS Project Gets Stoned
My deep thanks to Jeff Hoogland, Steve Rosenberg and the great folks at OMG Ubuntu.
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Norway to probe Sony’s PS3 Linux ‘downgrade’
A government agency in Norway has reported Sony to the Consumer Ombudsman after floods of
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Are Your Desktop Effects Slowing You Down?
Whenever I perform a 3D benchmark in Linux one of the first questions I get asked about the results is:
Where your desktop effects turned off?
For those who are not aware, desktop effects are the “flash” that is en
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Linux 2.6.35.7
I’m announcing the release of the 2.6.35.7 kernel. This is only needed if you run Xen, there was a typo that caused problems. My fault, sorry.
Linux 2.6.36-rc6 Kernel Released
The Linux 2.6.36 kernel is just about here.
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Have yourself a very Linux Christmas
Whether you cut your teeth downloading Linux 0.x source code or you want to give Linux a try for the first time, we’ve got presents for you.
What do you get for the Linux lover in your life?
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Linux Audio Blog #3
Some additional comments about operating systems with some more detail including MMUs, Amigas, old computer hardware and where computing is going, 16 minutes duration.
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Google Chrome OS: unlike Android, it’s open source
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4 Ways to Give Desktop Linux a Test-Drive
That desktop Linux offers myriad compelling advantages for business users is no longer the subject of much debate.