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‘Critical’ Linux kernel bugs discovered

Posted in Linux, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

By Matthew Broersma, Techworld
February 14, 2008
The three bugs, [...]

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Red Hat, Ubuntu Win Linux Popularity Poll

Posted in Linux, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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Three Minutes with Red Hat’s Chief

Posted in Linux, tagged , , , , on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

 Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service 

When Matthew Szulik left Red Hat abruptly for family health reasons in December, many people were scratching their heads over the company’s new choice of CEO– [...]

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Craigslist founder talks about open source, banner ads

Posted in Linux, tagged , , , , , on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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French police deal blow to Microsoft

Posted in Linux, tagged , , , , on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

by Christina Mackenzie

PARIS (AFP) – The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating [...]

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Ulteo Online Desktop

Posted in Linux, Technology News, tagged on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

desktoplinux.com
Do you really like OpenOffice.org as your office suite? Would you like to be able to use it on any computer with an Internet connection? If you answered yes to both those questions, you’ll be interested in Ulteo’s beta of Ulteo Online Desktop, which allows the use of OpenOffice.org over the Internet as SAAS (software [...]

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Dell launches Linux PCs in UK

Posted in Linux, tagged on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Dell has announced that it’s to start selling PCs pre-installed with Linux in the UK. The company will sell one laptop and one desktop line with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed. The move follows the highly successful launch of Ubuntu systems in the US, [...]

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Run Internet Explorer on Linux

Posted in Linux, tagged on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Run Internet Explorer on Linux
Brian Smith, TechRepublic
05 November 2007 05:47 PM
Most Linux users would be appalled by the idea of attempting to contaminate a Linux installation with any Microsoft product, especially Internet Explorer. However, many Web sites don’t render properly using regular Linux browsers, such as Firefox or [...]

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Get plugins for your web browser

Posted in Linux on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Ubuntu 7.04
Get plugins for your web browser
A plugin is a small program which extends the capabilities of another program. In the case of web browsers, plugins typically allow the browser to play different types of multimedia or to run small, web-based programs.
To view a list of currently-installed plugins in the Firefox Web Browser, type “about:plugins” [...]

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Ubuntu

Posted in Linux, tagged on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A Linux based Operating System that is easy to use our of the box.
Need to download codecs for video though as they could not be included for legal reasons…
Playing proprietary formats
Videos can come in a range of different formats. However, some of these formats are proprietary or commercial and so cannot be included in Ubuntu [...]

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