One of the reasons why I said PCLinuxOS is "A real distro-hopper-stopper is its ability to auto detect your devices. I have read elsewhere that mostly, only branded tvturner cards can work with linux. To my surprise, this is not the case with tvtime, the native tvturner software in PCLinuxOS and I guess it is available out-of-the-box on every versions of PCLOS (excellent job guys!).
Read more »openSUSE 11.3 Hits Milestone 4 - Only 3 More To Go
Novell's openSUSE community Linux distribution is moving steadily and surely towards its 11.3 release which is scheduled for July 15th.
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Quanta Plus Review
An open source, Linux-based web development package that’s crammed with features. Sukrit Dhandhania takes Quanta Plus for a test drive…
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Italian tablet PC runs Ubuntu Linux
Italy-based Ekoore is shipping a tablet PC that runs Ubuntu Linux or Windows on an Intel Atom N270. The Ekoore ET10TA10 offers a 10.2-inch, 1024 x 600 backlit touchscreen, as well as 1GB of RAM, flash expansion, a 160GB hard disk drive (HDD), and WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet, and USB connections.
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Ubuntu in its own words
Ubuntu 10.04 is now about five weeks away, which means the announcement of Lucid+1 (our vote is still for Manky Monkey) is around the corner. To kill the time between now and the announcement of what's to come in the next version, we decided to take a look at the keywords used to describe previous Ubuntu releases to see how priorities have changed over the years
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SliTaz Linux 3.0 - “Small but Powerful”
SliTaz 3.0 is upon us and we decided to take this tiny distribution for a spin and see how well it caters to the minimalist crowd. This distribution weighs in at an incredible 30 meg download, but does it contain the applications one needs to have a functional machine?
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How to setup Google Chrome 5 in Mandriva 2010
I ran the command google-chrome in Konsole and then received the infamous error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory message. This problem has been coming up a lot in Mandriva. And I had to do a lot of digging to get a work around for this.
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Ubucompilator 0.1.2 released
We have already discussed some time back about Ubucompilator.This is update for the previous version 0.0.1
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An introduction to Igelle 1.0
Igelle is a young distribution which first appeared with its 0.6 release about a year ago. In February of this year the Igelle developers announced the availability of version 1.0, calling it "the world's most flexible operating system."
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Ubuntu implements units policy, will switch to base-10 units in future release
Ubuntu's future 10.10 operating system is going to make a small, but contentious change to how file sizes are represented.
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Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Dies On April 30th. Long Live Lucid!
The Ubuntu 8.10 Linux distribution, code named the Intrepid Ibex will reach its end-of-life on April 30th.
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Networking is a little more than IPs and netmasks
It's a guy who has set up DNAT on netfilter to forward packets that are sent to one host to another server that does the real work. Think of it as a proxy.
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Open source deduplication software released for Linux
A new open source project, dubbed Opendedup, has appeared with the goal of creating a deduplication-based file system for Linux called SDFS.
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Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Remain #1 Threat to Free Software
How Microsoft, its offshoot Intellectual Ventures, and to a lesser degree Apple (which invests in Intellectual Ventures) harm Free software through the courtrooms
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Create ubuntu bootable USB key from your windows machine using LiLi USB Creator
LiLi USB Creator is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable Live USB key with a Linux on it.
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