“About a week ago Wal-Mart began selling a $200 Linux machine running on a 1.5 ghz VIA C7 processor and 512 MB of RAM. While the specs are useless for Vista, it works blazingly fast on Ubuntu with the Enlightenment Window Manager. The machine is now officially sold out of their online warehouses (it may still be available in some stores). And the product sales page at wal-mart.com is full of glowing reviews from new and old Linux users alike.”

Source: Slashdot

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Technorati Tags: Wal-Mart, Linux

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Detailed and proper documentation of source code and programs is the milestone of Unix culture, as we may read in “The art of Unix Programming” by Eric Steven Raymond. The first application on Unix was the platform to prepare documents. The platform was used by Bell Labs to prepare patent documents. Effective work with documentation and searching for needed information is the key feature when working on unix-like systems.

Source: Polish Linux

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Technorati Tags: Linux, Unix

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Better hardware support – this is something we would all like to see happen. And it seems that it could happen, thanks in part to a Dell supported project known as DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support).

Source: Mad Penguin

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Technorati Tags: Dell, Linux, Hardware

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IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. improved their standings Monday in the newest tally of the world’s fastest 500 computers, a closely watched measure of progress in the industry.

Source: Canoe Tech. News

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LOS ANGELES – Marvel is putting some of its older comics online Tuesday, hoping to reintroduce young people to the X-Men and Fantastic Four by showcasing the original issues in which such characters appeared.

On the Net: http://marvel.com/

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Source: Canoe Tech. News

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