Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex released
Ubuntu 8.10 just got released and here is a summary of What’s new: Guest Session: If your friend comes over and wants to use your laptop, you can give guest access which is completely locked down so the guest user can’t see or touch your data. Support for 3G data card. This becomes easy with […]
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Linux Foundation launches killer development tool
For ISVs that are writing Linux applications, the Linux foundation has launhed a killer development tools. Some of the highlights of Linux Application Checker (AppChecker): Its open source It checks .rpm, .deb, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files. Checks the application for LSB compliance. And check against all the Linux distribution. So you can check if your […]
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Foxconn fixes the famous Linux bug
Foxconn has quickly fixed the famous Linux bug found in their BIOS which was causing Linux to crash. Here is the update from the Foxconn team. Thank you foxconn.
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux?
If you are planning on buying a motherboard to run Linux, beware. Before you choose Foxconn, do check with them about this. From their article it implies that their BIOS is having code that will work perfectly fine with Windows but will crash Linux. Read more on Digg.
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Best Practices for moving to desktop Linux
There are a lot of good reasons for moving to Linux on the desktop, primary amongst them that is is more secure, it doesn’t have the virus problems that Windows has and of course you can save tons of money on licenses.For the IT department, once a Linux system is set up, it is very […]
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
The Kernel gurus
When men were men and wrote their own device drivers – Linus Torvalds Here are all the photos of the men 🙂 Kernel Summit 2007 group photo
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
PC World: Tech Predictions for 2008
From PC World. As Vista continues to limp toward wider adoption, Linux will make major inroads into the enterprise, as well as in government IT. At the same time, the leaner OS will become a more attractive option for home users and in consumer electronics.
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Survey says … Linux desktop is ever more popular
From this article. The Linux Foundation survey found that the Linux desktop has become a mainstream desktop replacement. While many businesses use Linux as a development desktop (53.3 percent), almost two-thirds (66.1 percent) use it as a client desktop. Linux is no longer just an operating system for the technically inclined. It also is an […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
The New York Stock Exchange goes Linux
If the most critical businesses can run Linux why all the other businesses can’t? Read more on how the New York Stock Exchange is moving to Linux.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Setting up your own home phone system.
Now you can save tons of money by setting up your own Home phone system using a PC, Linux, Skype and some off the shelf hardware. You can put an Old PC to some good use! Read More.
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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Linux growing in the Cellphone space
From this article: Market research firm ABI Research, in a late August press announcement entitled “Linux to Be the Fastest-Growing Smartphone OS over the Next 5 Years,” predicted a compound annual growth rate “in excess of 75%.” By 2012, this growth rate means that Linux will “account for nearly 31% of all smart devices in […]
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
Vista or Linux?
Many people ask me if they should switch to Vista. After talking to many organisations which have tried to switch to Vista, I now know why Linux is a better option. Organisations find that Vista’s hardware requirements is huge and you don’t get any great additional functionality so why spend so much more? The cost […]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Linux everywhere
What common between award winning airlines such as Emirates, Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways? They won the awards for the best in-flight entertainment system. And guess what? Their in-flight entertainment system is powered by Linux. Some other airline in-flight entertainment systems powers by Linux: Â Qantas Airways, Delta and Continental. These are the invisible […]
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
5 Reasons your parents should use Linux
Its a nice experience to get completely non-techy users to switch to Linux, specially your own folks. The main advantage is that if they often call you for computer problems then they won’t call you as often. Hardware rarely fails, its the software which is a problem. With viruses and spyware infecting Windows PCs all […]
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Windows is spyware
One more reason to use Linux, if you aren’t already. From a CNet article. “Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users’ knowledge, even when the users have turned off auto-updates.” Wow. Updating Windows without your being aware of it? And after telling it not to? That’s what spyware does. It’s […]
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
Microsoft rides on Linux!
Interesting! “The mobile wireless routers on board the company’s “Connector” employee bus system, made by Seattle-based Junxion Inc., use the open-source Linux operating system” Read More. There is a lot of invisible Linux that touches your life but you don’t see it, Linix powers routers, Tivos, several other devices and services as well such as […]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Reclaiming space on Linux.
One of the SUSE experts pointed out that Linux is reserving space which can be reclaimed by using the following command. tune2fs -m0 /dev/hda5 Where /dev/hda5 is home directory. Type mount to see which is device for the home directory. Type df to see the free space before and after running this command. Note: This […]
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Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Leveraging Linux to sell yourself
Want to move up in life quicker? Linux is the answer. Read this article:Â Leveraging Linux to sell yourself.
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
Linux powers spacecrafts
Linux is already running on cellphones, laptops, desktops, servers, mainframes and even super computers! And Now … NASA tests Linux for spacecraft control Way to go!
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Linux web sites have lower downtime
Research carried out across web sites shows Linux/Apache has less downtime and yields faster websites than Microsoft/IIS. Something we always knew and the reason why Linux is the Number 1 operating system for the Web but now data to support that. Read More.
