Apparently Ubuntu, the most popular Linux distribution, is considering dropping Firefox for Chrome.
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Ubuntu flirts with Chrome instead of Firefox
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The next edition of the Ubuntu Linux distribution could come with added Google, with rumours circulating that Canonical is looking to replace Mozilla's Firefox with Google's Chrome browser.
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Android Loses a Pair of Senior Members
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Senior Product Manager and Senior Software Engineer take flight. Yesterday, Senior Android Product Manager Erick Tseng left Google for Facebook as the head of mobile products. Tseng worked at Google for four years, with previous stints at Yahoo and Microsoft.
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South African netbook runs Ubuntu Linux
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South Africa-based mobile provider Vodacom has begun selling an Ubuntu Linux based netbook. The Linkbook, which was developed by a South African company of the same name, is equipped with 16GB of flash storage, HSDPA, WiFi, two USB ports, and an 8.9-inch display.
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Some cool Linux tips/tricks
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It’s Friday and that means we’re all ready for the weekend. But that also means we’re ready for some fun. Because of that I thought it would be fitting to do an article on some of the cooler Linux tips and tricks that I have come across over the years.
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GNOME-Do Alternative: Kupfer
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In case you haven't noticed, we're pretty big fans of Gnome-Do around these parts. However, there's a new little app that, in some ways, might just be drinking Do's milkshake. Its Kupfer, and no, I have no idea how thats pronounced.
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PhotoFilmStrip- Create movies out of your pictures in just 3 steps
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PhotoFilmStrip is an opensource software that help you to create movies out of your pictures in just 3 steps. First select your photos, customize the motion path and render the video. There are several output possibilities for VCD, SVCD, DVD up to FULL-HD. Creates animated slideshows
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Ubuntu Light Shuts Out Future Ubuntu Moblin/MeeGo Remixes
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When Canonical announced its Ubuntu Light platform for netbooks and platforms Monday morning, a lot of fuss was made about the new Unity interface, the capability of Ubuntu Light to act as an instant-on environment for users of these devices who just want to surf, and the general coolness of the plan.
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Chrome rising fast
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Google's Chrome browser is gaining ground fast while Internet Explorer slides. Google's Chrome browser is now well established as the third most popular browser and its ascendency hasn't stopped yet. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, is clearly in decline.
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Heroes Of Newerth Gone Retail !
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Today the DOTA mod remake Heroes Of Newerth from S2games has gone retail! S2Games made GNU/Linux clients for their Savage series and HoN is no exception! It runs pretty good on GNU/Linux and offer a native 64-bit client.
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Wine running on a Nokia N900
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ARM based superphone N900 running the x86 wine binary via a statically compiled arm qemu binary, within an x86 chroot.
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Android 2.2 to include WiFi hotspot creation and tethering
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Google has been working diligently on its Android phone OS, and update 2.2 is coming up quite soon. So far, the Linux-derived phone OS is selling well, recently thought to have overtaken the iPhone in monthly sales.
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Ubuntu Learns New Tricks, Forgets Some Old Ones With Lucid Lynx Upgrade
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Ubuntu's latest Lucid Lynx upgrade gave the distro a needed facelift and endowed it with a speed boost as well. Users may find the new music store attractive, and social network butterflies can pipe friends' updates directly into the OS.
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Ubuntu open to greater touch
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Canonical is looking at Ubuntu for in-car systems, tablets, set-top-boxes, and what director of business development Chris Kenyon called "the digital home or something you carry around".
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Open Source Deduplication: Ready for Enterprises?
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In just a few years, data deduplication has gone from a technology with a lot of promise that only very large enterprises could afford to one that is nearly ubiquitous for making the most of backup and recovery.
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