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I just saw an AP news story on iwon.com that talked about Dell’s recent decision to once again give people the option of getting XP instead of Vista. The article said that they did this [...]
April 19th, 2007 | Posted in Computers, Linux, science | Comments Off
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I just noticed (ok, this is a tad old, but still worth mentioning) that after 22 months of development since ‘Sarge’ was released as Debian GNU/Linus 3.0, Debian has finally declared ‘Etch’ stable and released it as Debian GNU/Linux 4.0.
Trivia question: what do the codenames of Debian GNU/Linux have in [...]
April 13th, 2007 | Posted in Linux, news, software | 2 Comments
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In a move that’s going to leave a LOT of customers (not to mention might-have-been customers!) cold on HP it seems that their warranty will not be honored if you choose to run linux.
Why this is so is a question I haven’t seen answered. I can’t help thinking that when [...]
March 27th, 2007 | Posted in Computers, Linux | Comments Off
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio Canada has an article in which they’re encouraging PC users that instead of whatever flavor of Microsoft windows you care to name OR the MAC alternative, they should give serious consideration to Ubuntu Linux.
The writer does a great job of giving a ‘quick version’ history of Linux and [...]
March 24th, 2007 | Posted in Linux | Comments Off
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Word is out, Ubuntu is releasing their new Beta version, code named “FeistyFawn“. It is the Beta release of what will eventually be known as Ubuntu 7.04 when it is release sometime in April 07. It should be noted that this IS a beta testing release and they’re not [...]
March 23rd, 2007 | Posted in Linux, software | Comments Off
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… for a live-cd of debian etch. Beginning to think nobody’s going to bother doing one. Too bad, it would be at least a halfa**ed way to do a dual boot. I may end up breaking down and trying Ubuntu instead.
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March 8th, 2007 | Posted in Linux | Comments Off
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I know there’s a so-called ‘Live-CD’ available for several distributions of linux, but is there perhaps one available for Debian? Im particularly interested in one for Debian Etch.
Does it (or will it) exist?
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March 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Linux, software | Comments Off
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I just saw something on Slashdot that gives a little hope that the world need not be forever Windoze powered. Somebody posted a link to a Dell website that is concentrating on finding out what users want.
The most popular item on the list is “Pre-Installed Linux | Ubuntu | Fedora [...]
February 19th, 2007 | Posted in Computers, Linux, news, software | 1 Comment