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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Dell introducing Ubuntu in XPS M1330
Dell is adding Ubuntu OS to it’s XPS M1330 lineup. It’s currently being offered in Europe and will be in U.S. in a week or two. It looks like Dell is doing a decent sale with it’s Ubuntu offering else … Continue reading
Sick of being sick
I’m finally feeling a little better after being sick for a week. I could finally manage to spend couple of hours in office today. I’ll be taking leave for 3 weeks starting Monday in anticipation of the arrival of our … Continue reading
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Sears selling sub $200 Linux PC
Sears is selling Mirus PC for $284.99 with a $100 rebate. Mirus desktop computer comes with Intel Celeron D 420-1.6Ghz processor, 1024MB RAM of memory, 80GB of hard drive, CD-RW optical drive, Speakers, Keyboard, Mouse, 56K Modem, Ethernet, 15-in-1 Memory … Continue reading
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Windows infectious to Mom and Pop shops
Security experts have warned that thousands of small web shops, especially set up by mom and pop web shops are infected with malicious code that infects PC users who visit those sites. Once installed on a Windows machine the malicious … Continue reading
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SUN to acquire MySQL
Sun Microsystems announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire MySQL, a popular open source database. Sun will pay about $800 million in cash for MySQL‘s privately held stock and will assume about $200 million worth of … Continue reading
Lenovo joins Linux club
Lenovo follows Dell in releasing Linux based laptops/desktops. Starting January 14th, Lenovo will pre-install SUSE SLED 10 in Thinkpad T61 and R61 notebooks. The ThinkPad T61 with SLED 10 Service Pack 1 will come with the Intel Core 2 Duo … Continue reading
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BECTA to British Schools – Don’t upgrade to Vista or Office 2007
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) which is responsible for advising British schools and colleges on their IT use told the schools not to upgrade to Microsoft’s Vista OS or Office 2007. The agency said they do not … Continue reading
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(K)Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Alpha 3 released
(K)Ubuntu team has released their 3rd alpha of Hardy Heron. Here is the list of changes/new features in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron: The latest Xorg, Xorg 7.3, is available in Hardy. Alpha 3 includes the 2.6.24-3.5 (2.6.24-rc6-based) kernel. This includes … Continue reading
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Tagged ATI Radeon, Firefox 3, Hardy Heron, Kernel, Kubuntu 8.04, PolicyKit, PulseAudio, Ubuntu 8.04, XORG
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KDE 4.0 released
KDE team has released their next generation window manager, KDE 4.0 today. Here are some of the features or changes in KDE 4.0 according to the KDE team. The Phonon multimedia framework provides platform independent multimedia support to all KDE … Continue reading
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Tagged KDE 4.0, Kubuntu 7.10, Kubuntu 8.04, Okular, Oxygen, Phonon, Plasma
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