When you want to turn your toaster off, you just flip the switch. There is no concept of putting your toaster to sleep or in hibernation. Computers, though, must move around a lot and survive on batteries, so we have all sorts of fancy power-saving techniques.
Across all operating systems, perhaps especially Ubuntu, boot times are falling like a rock.
As Boot Times Fall, Are Computers On/Off Appliances
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acripper - Automatically Rip Audio CDs to ogg,mp3 in openSUSE
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Automatic Command-line Ripper (acripper) is a free opensource tool for ripping and encoding CD tracks on the fly. It also tries to get the CD information from feeddb.org, a CDDB website and writes it to the encoded files.
Read more »Cooliris Now Available for Linux
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Truth be told, I'm not sure I really get Cooliris, the browser plugin designed to enhance your photo and video browsing experience. Don't get me wrong, it's really cool, and fun, and now that it is officially available for Linux, I've spent way too much time fiddling around with it.
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Android 1.5 "Early Look" SDK available
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The Google Android Developers have announced the release of an "early look" of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Android version 1.5. The new SDK provides a preview of the cupcake branch of the open source mobile platform and is based on the 2.6.27 Linux kernel.
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PC-BSD 7.1 released
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The PC-BSD developers have announced the release of version 7.1 – Galileo Edition of their open source operating system. PC-BSD 7.1 is based on the 7.2 Pre version of FreeBSD, an operating system derived from BSD UNIX that focuses on security and stability.
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Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook
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While there are many netbooks on the market from a variety of different vendors, for the most part they are composed of the same hardware. When it comes to Dell with their popular Inspiron Mini 9 netbook, they happen to be using Ubuntu but with a few modifications.
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The desktop fight you've all been waiting for
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The eternal battle for the Linux desktop: Which GUI reigns supreme, GNOME or KDE?
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Mint 6 “Fluxbox” Mini-Review, Desktop Emphasis
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By now, I have tested many Linux distros. But I had yet to come across any distro that actually did better in VMware then on actual hardware. Until now.
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Bulgarian distro offers Live CD greatest hits
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A Bulgarian open source project has released a Live CD compilation of five popular boot-and-run Linux distributions.
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Impi Linux is no more
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Five years after it was first launched, South Africa’s Impi Linux distribution no longer exists.
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Your First ASP.NET MVC Application
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This tutorial describes the ASP.NET MVC project template that is installed in Visual Studio. A simple application is built, briefly touching on all of the aspects of the ASP.NET MVC framework.
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Working with the Report Builder
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This chapter is all about Report Manager, the frontend for the Report Server backend. The full interaction between the Windows operating system, the Report Server, and the Report Manager is amply illustrated with a large number of hands-on exercises. You also get a full dose of the security aspects, the scheduling, and delivery aspects
of reporting.
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Back In Time Does Full Linux Backups in One Click
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Back In Time, a Linux backup app inspired by Macs' Time Machine and offering the same kind of no-worry, space-saving snapshot protection, is worth adding to your must-install list. Why?
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Shedding Some Light on Lightbox
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Hello and welcome to the first part of what I hope will be an interesting series of articles on the various implementations of Lightbox.
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Order Your Ubuntu 9.04 Free CDs
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There's only one week left until the final release of Ubuntu 9.04 and, if you are anxious to get your hands on some nice CDs with the new Ubuntu operating system, then you should pre-order them right now from Ubuntu's ShipIt service, free of charge (a free account or an OpenID is required). They have started taking the orders a few minutes ago, so hurry up!
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