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June of 2009

 

Rate computex Linux found in Israel

Original at ZDNet external link    Tue, Jun 16

CEO of a Linux distro that was active at the show, called Affordy, based in Tel Aviv with a US office in New Haven, Conn. Affordy makes TITAN LEV (Linux Extended Version), a distro designed for Windows users. It comes bundled with 150 applications, ...

Rate Is Xandros a Linux distro, a marketing machine or a Microsoft stooge?

Original at iTWire external link    Mon, Jun 15

 Australia Xandros began life as Corel Linux, a Debian-based distribution which was acquired along with the development team behind the product from Corel Corporation in August 2001. This came nine months or so after Corel's announcement to sell off completely ...

Rate The H Week

Original at The H external link    Sat, Jun 13

 UK On Monday the H Open Source reported on the release of Tiny Core Linux 2.0 , a minimal Linux desktop distro designed to run out of a USB memory stick on minimal hardware and Micro Core Linux 2.0, a version of Tiny Core without the X environment. ...

Rate Chinese Linux distro taps new Qt SDK

Original at Linux News external link    Fri, Jun 12

Qt Software announced that Red Flag Software will start using the SDK (software development kit) for the Qt development framework as part of its Red Flag Software Linux Desktop 7.0 distribution. Red Flag Linux is the most widely used Linux desktop ...

Rate Linux The First To Support USB 3.0 Although There Is No Hardware ...

Original at Soft Sailor external link    Fri, Jun 12

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She said that she's working with Keve Gabbert in order to ensure that Ubuntu and Red Hat will “pick up” the xHCI driver as soon as possible, but if you are an advanced user then you can developer your own Linux distro kernel. Sarah Sharp says that USB ...

Year 2009

 

Rate How To: Tutorial: Build Your Own Linux Distro

Original at PC Plus external link    Thu, Apr 9

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 UK We're used to thinking of Linux distributions being set in stone. They're either KDE or Gnome, use a certain kernel and bundle certain applications. But this doesn't have to be the case. If you find yourself making the same adjustments each time you ...

Rate How To: TUTORIAL: Install Mandriva Linux Free 2009Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Mon, Mar 9

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By rss@youtube.com (weirderkki) Author: weirderkki Keywords: tutorial install Mandriva Linux Free 2009 distro Ubuntu Kubuntu Xubuntu Gobuntu Sabayon Gentoo OpenSUSE sun virtual machine PC computer operating system Windows XP Vista Apple Mac OS Added: March 9, 2009

Rate How To: installing software via synapticVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Feb 1

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By rss@youtube.com (clebus) I'm fed up of hearing people say Linux is hard to use. If you download a distro like Ubuntu, it's really no more difficult to use than windoze. This video shows you how to download and install software using the "Synaptic Package Manager"

Rate Patch: What's new in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3

Original at Heise Online external link    Fri, Jan 23

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IT Examiner  Germany - Red Hat has released version 5.3, the third update of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 operating system, first introduced in March 2007. ... Red Hat revs Enterprise Linux distro Register TITLE: Red Hat update for kernel SecuObs

Rate Podcast: Will HP Do a Linux Distro?

Original at Dvorak Uncensored external link    Wed, Oct 29

By John C Dvorak LinkedIn to support an app platform for no known reason. Xbox 360 to hook into the new Netflix streaming. It will be HD! Ozzie says Azure is an Operating System as a Service. HP in the news with netbook stories and perhaps an HP Linux! Windows 7, they say, will be perfect for notebooks. The [...]

Rate Top 10 Command Line Tools

Original at Lifehacker external link    Wed, Jul 30

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By Kevin Purdy Note: Mac OS X and Linux users have robust command line interfaces baked right into their systems. To get to them, head to Applications->Utilities->Terminal in Finder. It varies in Linux, depending on your distro and interface, but a "terminal" can usually be found in an "Accessor...

Year 2007

 

Rate TurboLinux's Wizpy bootable Linux PMP reviewed

Original at Engadget external link    Thu, Jun 28

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By Thomas Ricker We witnessed the birth of TurboLinux's Wizpy, watched it strike out in earnest and eventually earn a living on the mean, PMP streets. So how has the wee, bootable Linux distro cum PMP fared? Well, according to a review over at LinuxLookup, it's a nice piece of kit and all although a bit finick...

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