Today, June 22, 2010, The Open Invention Network (OIN) announced that Canonical, the company that owns and produces the Ubuntu Linux distribution, joins its ranks as the first Associate Member.
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Dell may sell Google Chrome OS pre-installed
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Talks are under way between Google and Dell to bring Chrome OS, the search giant's cloud-centric operating system, to Dell's computer lineup, according to a Dell executive. Dell wants to be "on the forefront" of "unique innovations" like Chrome OS that will hit store shelves in the next few years, Amit Midha Dell's president for greater China and South Asia recently told Reuters.
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Open Season : Maverick
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It’s back and it’s bigger than ever! It’s that time of the year again, time to start hunting down those nasty trivial Papercut bugs.
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Helping others get Fedora
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When I find an outstanding distro, such as Fedora, I prefer to buy the media from an on-line vendor as a way of showing my support. Most of the time the money goes directly to the vendor, however, I happened upon the Sponsored Media Program today and found a vendor who participates in this program.
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Get the Most Out of Bash History
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Type history at the Bash command prompt, and you'll get a list of your previous commands. You can navigate through these with the up and down arrows, but there are other ways of interacting with them that I've been investigating this week.
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Red Hat launches new customer portal
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Enterprise Linux specialist Red Hat has announced the launch of a new global customer portal that provides customers with access to support and downloads for its Linux platform, middleware, virtualisation and cloud solutions
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How to: Free up disk space in ubuntu 10.04 by cleaning up unnecessary package and junk files
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Do you ever get the feeling that your system is being flooded with a bunch of junk files that you can't get rid of? I know I do. Well, I'm going to show you a few ways to get rid of most of those annoying junk files and "free up lot of "disk-space".
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Linaro seeks to simplify ARM Linux landscape
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The ARM processor family is a complicated one, with many different variations, leading to large numbers of separate sub-architectures in the Linux kernel. A quick glance at the ARM directory in a recent kernel tree shows nearly 70 different sub-architectures, each corresponding to a different CPU or system-on-chip (SoC).
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The Mozilla Labs Bespin project development team have issued version 0.8 of their web-based code editor using the latest HTML5 standard, calling it "the most important release since Bespin 0.5"
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HP linux netbook
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This is the HP Mini 100e, a netbook which looks are fully customizable. There's an option for SUSE Linux as the operating system. It's nice to see something different in operating system options, too bad the other 2 options are windows versions (XP and 7)
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Toshiba Android netbook
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Looks like the Android netbooks are coming: Toshiba introduced their Dynabook AZ Series which is equipeed with an Android 2.1 OS. Toshiba AC100 The AC100 is a mobile internet device with a 10.1 inch LED screen and "up to 8 hours" of battery life. According to Toshiba, it "combines smartphone functionality with netbook usability".
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An introduction to CrossOver Office and Games for Solaris
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CrossOver for Solaris is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers with (currently) limited support for many of todays most popular office application and games. CrossOver Office and Games for Solaris has been compiled on Solaris 10 and tested for performance and stability
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Linux just works? Not for everyone!
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You read about it everywhere on forums, mailing lists and in just about every Linux verses windows flame war. Linux just works is claimed. Then there is the counter claim that Linux didn't do this or that had no drivers. So what is the story here? Does Linux just work or not?
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Firefox 3.6.4 adds crash protection, fixes vulnerabilities
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Following several delays, Mozilla has released version 3.6.4 of its open source Firefox web browser, adding crash protection and addressing four critical vulnerabilities
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Small Business: How Red Hat Will Attack Microsoft Stronghold
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At first glance, Microsoft’s software portfolio — Windows, Office, Small Business Server and Exchange — still dominates the small business market. But Red Hat CEO Jim Whiteshurst says his company has found a back door into the small business market. Perhaps surprisingly, it doesn’t really involve desktop Linux.
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