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Archive for January 24th, 2008

Linux For The Masses? Bet On This Winner.

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

With Linux on the desktop going from a slow crawl to verging on an explosion, many have toiled with the question: How do we make this happen faster? A well-known Austin-based Linux Advocate thinks he has the answer.

Source: LXer
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox

Darn it is Chilly

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Okay when you wake up and the Temp outside is -15 degrees and a windchill of -35 degrees you just know it is not going to be a good day. And the bad part is they claim that is about as good as it will get today. Darn and this is only January.
Posted by Baldy [...]

Ten Years Ago Today: Netscape Announces Free Communicator Source Code Release

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

 
Today marks ten years since Netscape Communications Corporation announced its intention to release the source code of the then in-development Netscape Communicator 5.0, heralding the beginning of what would become the Mozilla project. At the same time, Netscape stopped charging for Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Netscape Communicator Standard Edition 4.0.

Yikes now this is starting [...]

The state of Linux according to Google

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

 
This is a look at the state of Linux through the eyes of Google Trends, Google’s highly useful search trend analyzer. Though looking at search statistics can never give a complete picture, this gives an interesting perspective to how things are going for Linux, especially when viewed through the eyes of such a dominant and [...]

Open source under attack?

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

 
A nest of poisoned Web sites has been quietly attacking unsuspecting visitors using an arsenal of thirteen different exploits. If the site visitor has JavaScript enabled and is vulnerable to any of those exploits, then in no time at all their system will be compromised with a Trojan not yet recognized [sic] by many popular [...]

Dell releases new Ubuntu-powered laptop: XPS 1330n

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

 
Linux laptop users suffering from Apple MacBook Air envy now have a chic, hot laptop to call their own: the Dell XPS 1330n with pre-installed Ubuntu 7.10.
It is a good thing that Linux is becoming more mainstream but darn are any of you listening, there are other distros out there and just maybe if [...]

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