Mac OS and Linux become legitimate enterprise choices, says Joe Habraken
TORONTO — Windows may no longer be the behemoth in the world of the operating system, as Apple and trends like virtualization, Linux-based systems, and Web-based applications emerge as the next step in the evolution of the OS.
Speaking at the IT World Canada-sponsored IT360 event [...]
Toshiba’s Italian channel sales and marketing operation reportedly is considering offering pre-loaded Linux in its Tecra, Satellite, Portege, and Qosmio notebook lines, according to a story published online last week in the Il Sole newspaper.
Luigi Cattaneo, country manager for Toshiba’s Italy Computer Systems Division, reportedly acknowledged that Hewlett-Packard and Acer own more than 50 percent [...]
“KDE Four Live” CDs/DVDs
May 1st, 2007 by james
Saw this on digg today. You can try out KDE 4 snapshots using a specially built live CD for that purpose. If you don’t feel like compiling it from source, this is a good way to see the latest and greatest KDE has to offer.
Source: TriedIt
~LC
Posted by LinuxChick [...]
NEW YORK (AP) - The co-founders of the popular video-sharing site YouTube are among the winners of the annual Webby online achievement awards announced Tuesday.
Steve Chen and Chad Hurley were named People of the Year for creating a site credited with transforming the media landscape and reshaping politics, pop culture and more. NBC has used [...]
Okay I have posted and posted about the results of the magic hex number that has Digg in turmoil and other sites in hot water as well. So here you go the hex code that allows a linux user to view HD-DVD’s without problems,
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 [...]
To say what happened today on Digg was a “user revolt” is an understatement. The Digg team deleted a story that linked to the decryption key for HD DVDs after receiving a take down demand and all hell broke loose. More stories appeared and were deleted, and users posting the stories were suspended.
That just got [...]
Blog: Apparently very upset at the news aggregate site for deleting articles that contain a key that could be used to crack the digital rights management on HD DVDs, Digg users inundate the site with thousands of recommendations to pages that contain the code.
(Yes even Digg can get censored, and yes it is shame [...]
In 2004, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. In 2007, Dell, a top computer manufacturer, is introducing pre-installed Ubuntu Linux on its main PC lines. The worlds of baseball and the desktop will never be the same. In both cases, people worked long and hard to reach the top. In Linux’s case, the [...]
I talk about Linux a lot and very often hear that people who tried Linux move back to their Windows installation. It is, in my surroundings at least, very rare that somebody switches to Linux completely. It seams that Linux is not yet regarded as a primary OS by the main audience. In past times [...]
Dell plans to offer the Linux-based Ubuntu operating system on its computers, the company announced Tuesday. In a partnership with Dell, Ubuntu’s distributor Canonical will provide technical support and service to Dell customers for an additional fee. Both Dell and Canonical hint that this could be just the beginning of a long and beautiful [...]
