ReviewLinux.com reviews the Mandriva Flash USB key edition of Mandriva. "Mandriva Flash 2008 Mobile USB Key is a great extra tool to have in your Linux toolbox. Fun to use and easy to manage this key is a cut above the more open source versions of Linux on USB Key. Support from Mandriva is proven and available for all who purchase the key.
Read more »Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring review: the blooming Spring
LinuxSeekers.com has printed one of the first reviews of the new Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring. They were impressed with the new artwork, the simplicity of the installer, and the wide range of hardware support.
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Turns out the mini-laptop revolution was just child's play
For some months, strange goings-on have been reported in branches of Toys 'R' Us. Shifty-looking middle-aged men and younger males wearing ponytails and Grateful Dead T-shirts have been observed leaving the premises with small cardboard boxes which they then gleefully tear open upon reaching the safety of their cars. Exclamations of 'Yes!
Read more »Get 3D Effects running in PCLinuxOS
A video howto about getting 3D effects working in PCLinuxOS
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wesnoth: a turn-based fantasy strategy game
"The free software community makes games, too. Among the more well-known ones is the Battle for Wesnoth — a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy setting. It doesn’t have shiny 3D graphics or cut-scenes, but it is an interesting and original game and is fun to play. This game is often simply called 'Wesnoth', and the package name is 'wesnoth'..."
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Nvidia Linux Display Driver 173.08 Beta Released
Nvidia, the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, released a new beta of its Linux video driver, version 173.08, which introduces support for some GeForce 9800, 9600, 9500 and 8400 graphic cards, among other bugfixes and improvements.
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Flock 1.1 offers nectar for social butterflies
When we looked at Flock 0.9 last year, the social Web browser showed a lot of potential. Now that it's over the 1.0 hump, the Flock team has made good on the application's promise. Maybe too good -- while Flock serves up a lot of content on a single page, you practically need super-powers to take it all in.
Read more »Distribution Release: Linux XP 2008
Linux XP is a Fedora-based Russian distribution with the goal of porting the Windows XP user interface to the GNOME desktop. The latest version is 2008, released earlier this week
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Using Gnu/Linux Tools to Recover DVD Video
Have you ever recorded an important video on a home DVD recorder? Do you use a camcorder that records directly on DVD disks? If you have had a recording fail to finalize properly, rendering it unusable, this post may help you.
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Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Set up BBDB
"The main address book and contact management module for Emacs is the Insidious Big Brother Database (BBDB), which can be integrated into several mail clients and other modules within Emacs. If you use BBDB to keep track of contact information, you’ll be able to look up phone numbers or add notes to people’s records from your Emacs-based mail.
Read more »Basics of iptables
Alot of people are freaked out by IPTables and find it hard to understand. However, once you get the grasp of it the basics are easy. This document will serve as a basic how-to on using iptables.
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Firefox Logo Spied In Deep Space
One of these is a photograph taken by the Hubble space telescope on December 17, 2002, featuring the variable star V838 Monocerotis. The other is the same photograph overlaid with a familiar logo. Can you tell which is which?
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Using Linux to install Windows XP on a Vista Notebook
Bright and early this morning some guys came into our shop with a newish notebook with a major problem: they'd killed Vista and their rescue partition. They came armed with a legitimate Windows XP Home CD and key but said they weren't able to get XP on the notebook. It may sound odd, but Linux was the solution to getting XP working on the machine.
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SymphonyOne 2008.1 Released
"The SymphonyOS Project is pleased to announce the release of SymphonyOne 2008.1, our first major release in almost a year..." -- via http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04836
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GNU IceCat 2.0.0.13-g1
A new version based on firefox 2.0.0.13 has been released: GNU IceCat 2.0.0.13-g1
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