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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Intel plans to show Ultra mobile PC running Ubuntu
Intel plans to show ultramobile PC devices based on its upcoming Menlow chip platform running AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) and the Ubuntu Linux distribution at the Intel Developer Forum today. Intel hopes to see many of these devices run Linux … Continue reading
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Out for next 2 weeks
I’ll be out on Vacation all of next week and then I’m leaving on 23rd to attend an Oracle conference in Las Vegas. I’ll be back on 28th and back to normal working schedule from October 01st. Technorati Tags: Oracle, … Continue reading
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Bloglines beta 1.0.2
Bloglines has added one more feature to it’s Bloglines Beta. The new feature allows you to edit the feed details inline. While reading the feeds, you can click on Edit option at the top and edit the Feed Name or … Continue reading
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Microsoft changes files without user permission
Scott Dunn of Windows Secrets reports that Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista even when the automatic updates are turned off. This is not a major problem for individual users, but for companies, it might cause … Continue reading
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AjaxWindows – Yet another Web OS
I read in CNet news today about AjaxWindows – another web based OS. I thought I would give that a try. Creating an account is pretty simple. All you need to do is, enter an email address, password and the … Continue reading
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IBM joins OpenOffice
The OpenOffice.org today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate and contribute to the development of OpenOffice. This follows the IBM support to ODF format in it’s war against OOXML format proposed by Microsoft. “IBM is very … Continue reading
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KDE 4.0 release schedule revised
KDE team has revised the schedule for release of KDE 4.0 Here is the updated schedule: October, 2nd: KDE 4.0 Beta 3 October, 19th: Total Release Freeze, only critical bugfixes are allowed to get in. If in doubt, ask the … Continue reading
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ATI driver to be open sourced – Strategies explained
You might have already read the news about the new release of ATI 8.41 Display Driver for Linux with better 3D support. The new driver was 50-90% faster than the old one in some tests. AMD today announced a major … Continue reading
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KDE 4.0 Beta 2.0 released
KDE team has released KDE 4.0 Beta 2. This release marks the beginning of the feature freeze and the stabilization of the current codebase. For more information, take a look at KDE release page. Technorati Tags: KDE 4.0, beta 2
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Geneva Public Library moves to Ubuntu
Geneva Public Library in Geneva, Alabama has moved to Ubuntu. They were using Windows 98 on older systems. Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 98 last year. The computers in the library are old, so they didn’t have the capabilities to run … Continue reading
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