gHacks (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Lately it has been a veritable onslaught of distribution releases: Ubuntu 9.10, Fedora 12, Mandriva (article coming soon) , Debian 5 (article coming soon), and many more. With all of these releases it’s been a real treat to kick the tires and see just how the various distributions put their spin on Linux. Another distribution [...]
TechEnclave (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Hello, I have heard that the latest Ubuntu 9.10 has been found with many bugs, dont no about fedora 12 or Opensuse 11.2 and also Mandriva2010 linux. So plase tell me as i ma a novice and only for some time used Ubuntu 9.04 through Wubi install, and not anyo ther linux distro, which among the four...
JabzWeb.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It’s the season of Linux distributions. After Ubuntu 9.10, Mandriva 2010, OpenSUSE 11.2, now it’s the time of Fedora 12, supported by Red Hat, which was already available in beta. This new version, called “Constantine”, brings new surprises. Among them, the Linux 2.6.31 kernel, the KDE 4.3 and Gnome 2.28 desktop environments, replacing Pidgin with Empathy [...]
Saramago (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
We’re in the middle of the distribution release frenxy, or so it seems. After Ubuntu 9.10 and Mandriva Linux 2010.0, it’s OpenSUSE time now: the team has pushed out OpenSUSE 11.2. A minor version number, but there’s enough in there, still. Link to the original site
Web Upd8 (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Goggles Music Manager is a music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music files based on genre, artist, album, and song. It supports gapless playback and features easy tag editing. Features Fast and light weight. Quick startup, no splash screen needed! Supports Ogg Vorbis , FLAC , MP3 , MP4 , ASF and Musepack music files. Support for AlbumArt embedded in tag or as separate...
DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: First look at openSUSE 11.2 News: Fedora 12 hits mirrors, openSUSE releases Linux for Education, Mandriva Cooker updates X.Org and desktops to latest versions, five years of pfSense Questions and answers: Why Ubuntu "fails" Shields Up port scanning and how to fix....
Online Tech Tips (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
While Ubuntu users have Pidgin as the default messenger app, Kopete is the default application for the KDE desktop of Mandriva Linux. This application supports Windows live messenger, Yahoo, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise and many more instant messenger services. It is designed to be a flexible multi protocol system to provide users with a single [...] Post from: Kopete – The KDE Messenger...
umm..... (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Hi, Well, i’ve re-skinned this thing again. I’m going to endeavor to post something “useful” each Wednesday from now onwards. Now this is probably not going to happen but who knows. I really want to make more use out of this space. Well today is my “Linux Birthday”, 1 year ago today I installed Mandriva on [...]
OS News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
We're in the middle of the distribution release frenxy, or so it seems. After Ubuntu 9.10 and Mandriva Linux 2010.0, it's OpenSUSE time now: the team has pushed out OpenSUSE 11.2. A minor version number, but there's enough in there, still.
Web Upd8 (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
SUN announced on their forums , the release of the first beta of VirtualBox 3.1, the next major update of the popular virtualization software which includes some really interesting changes, such as: Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session from one machine to another VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only the last one, and new snapshots can be taken...
Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Contents GNU/Linux Distributions Devices/Embedded Free Software/Open Source Leftovers Interview with David Miller of Red Hat GNU/Linux New PC to encourage older users The computer is built using Linux operating system, a free operating system that can be customised by users. Computing for older users: Patronising or practical? What connects Italian vegans, Valerie Singleton, and Linux Mint? Well they’re...
Chas' Compilation (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 328, 9 November 2009 [...] Those who followed some of the popular Linux news sites after the release of Ubuntu 9.10 must have been horrified (or, for those belonging to the Ubuntu haters camp, delighted) by the amount of negative media coverage given to Canonical's latest release over the past week. This is how The Register summed up the event in "Early adopters bloodied...
MakeUseOf.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Mandriva Linux 2010 was recently released and brings lots of nice improvements to an already nice system. Mandriva has a long and distinguished history in the Linux distribution arena. They began over a decade ago using Red Hat as their base and quickly became the preferred choice of the new Linux user. Although many [...]
Links and Things (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Following my mandriva upgrading - I keep on being impressed by the speed - maybe I should have been appalled by the slowness of 2009.1 (and I think 2009). I was just checking, last night that wine - unfortunately not the drink, it's a Linux application which enables those apps which, alas, aren't ported to linux to run in this environment - in some cases they run as fast as they do in native
DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: First look at Mandriva Linux 2010 News: openSUSE 11.2 Gold Master, Fedora 12 crunch time, Ubuntu media coverage, Sabayon 5.1 updates, Puppy and BackTrack server compromises, Jolicloud for your netbook Questions and answers: Distributions and real-time Linux kernel Released last week: Mandriva....
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