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Windows Mobile is dead, new Linux mobile OS from Samsung |
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Friday, 21 August 2009 08:10 |
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Ok, now that almost every site writing about mobile tech and gadgets has checked in with their own take about yesterday’s Mobile Review’s preview of Nokia N900 handset, I have a question for you.Did any of you guys and girls actually read the original article? Or did you just quickly scrolled through all that useless text to the bottom, hunting for specs and pics to write about?
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Linux is booming, but unpaid adoption may hurt vendors |
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 06:14 |
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Even as the recession continues to cool CIO appetites for software purchases, Linux is bucking the trend, according to a new IDC report. IDC is projecting Linux revenue to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 16.9 percent from 2008 to 2013, topping $1.2 billion in 2013. As IDC notes, this growth will comprise just 4 percent of total software market revenue by 2013, up from 2.2 percent in 2008. However, for the second time, IDC has also examined nonpaid deployments of Linux, revealing some troubling data.
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I want to like Linux, but it keeps failing on me |
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 07:15 |
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Recently I argued that running Firefox off a bootable copy of Linux on a CD or USB flash drive was an excellent approach for online banking. Windows users face a torrent of malware and, for many people, maintaining and using a Windows system securely requires too much time, effort and technical expertise.
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Close to a Third of Dell Netbooks Ship with Linux |
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009 06:44 |
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Even though Dell is only the fifth-largest manufacturer of netbooks in the world, it is widely praised by the Linux community as one of the few vendors who does this whole Linux OEM thing right: a well-supported, default Ubuntu installation, without toy user interfaces or software releases that are two years old. Finch told PCWorld that Dell is about to update their Linux offering to the latest version of Ubuntu somewhere in the coming weeks.
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Web-based Quake Live finally supports Mac, Linux |
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Friday, 21 August 2009 08:05 |
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The free, cloud-based version of Quake is a glorious, 3D, fast-and-furious time waster—but until recently, it was Windows-only. Now, however, the gamers at Id Software have updated their groundbreaking on-the-Web frag-fest, addding support for Mac and Windows users. It's a dangerous development, especially for easily distracted Macheads (like yours truly).
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ATI updates its Linux graphics display drivers |
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Thursday, 20 August 2009 06:12 |
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AMD HAS RELEASED a new version of its proprietary ATI Catalyst Linux display driver for both x86 and x86_64 systems.
The ATI Catalyst 9.8 suite updates the software to version 8.64 and supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 - and therefore most Red Hat based Linux distros - as well as the current Debian based Ubuntu 9.04 known as Jaunty Jackalope.
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Boom in requests for Linux drivers |
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009 06:47 |
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According to Greg Kroah-Hartman, Novell programmer and Linux Driver Project lead, the group of some 400 programmers at the project receive requests to port existing closed-source drivers to open-source drivers for Linux "all the time", and has been "doing a lot of work on this over the past few years".
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Ubuntu's Karmic Koala Alpha 4 arrives |
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Monday, 17 August 2009 06:26 |
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Welcome to Karmic Koala Alpha 4, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.10. Pre-releases of Karmic are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.
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Did You Know? that Chinese government was alredy found to have been spying on Skype conversations? You can avoid this by using a number of free software alternatives to skype, such as Ekiga, Twinkle, Coccinella, QuteCom, and SIP-Communicator.
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