After the original releases of three Ubuntu machines last year, Dell has quietly been adding to its repository of Linux-powered machines. The newest is a UK-based Inspiron Mini 9, reported by TheRegister.
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The Current State of the Economy and Linux
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Recently, the Linux Foundation has apparently been pointing out that the struggling US economy may cause businesses that are looking to cut cost to switch to Linux. I completely agree, but there is potentially even more to it than just the struggling economy.
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Adding a new hard disk to Linux, and why the Linux filesystem trounces Windows' butt
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Adding a second (or third or more!) hard drive to your computer is a great way to, well, give your computer more disk space. Ok, the concept is pretty logical but the process to make it work needs some explanation. Here’s what to do, plus one thing the Linux filesystem does brilliantly which Windows can’t do at all.
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Shell Script To Access The International Thesaurus!
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Impress your friends with fancy alternative foreign words for the banal English ones you use everyday ;)
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Linux is Making Me Fat and Lazy
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Because of Linux I hardly have to lift a finger anymore, and because of it my health is suffering. I rarely hop up and down in a fit of temper, I don't have to drive to the store to buy software, and I don't get the aerobic benefits of spending hours on the phone with tech support, breathing hard and accelerating my heartbeat.
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Who writes Linux: Corporate America
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I'm not sure why the silly notion that "Only .10068% of Linux kernel developers are paid" keeps circulating, but it does. So, let me just say, once and for all, Linux is written, for the most part, by paid software engineers and programmers from major American corporations.
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Linux speaks your instant messaging dialect
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No matter your flavour of instant messenger (IM) client, Linux has you covered. With the open source program Pidgin you can talk freely.
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Linux Vs. Unix: The Sins Of The Father?
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Did you ever notice that sometimes things are just slightly to the left of where they're supposed to be?
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The Linux Foundation Should Stop Criticizing Solaris
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Recently, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, came out basically saying that Solaris, Sun's recently open-sourced operating system, will never go anywhere. He even took a shot at it being open-source, saying that open-sourcing it was 'too little and too late'
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MIDs to outsell netbooks in five years?
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Linux stacks such as Moblin and Maemo will dominate the mobile Internet device (MID) market, says a report by ABI Research. The firm expects Moblin to take 42 percent of the market in 2013, when it expects 86 million Linux-enabled MIDs to ship.
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Debian and Ubuntu DDNS with Bind9 and DHCP
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This tutorial is a continuation of my previous post How to setup a LAN DNS server using Bind9 under Debian and Ubuntu Linux which covers the installation of bind9 on a Debian/Ubuntu system. This new tutorial will cover the Dynamic DNS features of bind9.
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How to setup a LAN DNS server using Bind9 under Debian and Ubuntu Linux
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This is a step by step tutorial on how to install and configure DNS server for your LAN using bind9. The DNS server will provide caching and name resolution as well as reverse name resolution for your local network. In this tutorial, we will use the domain "debian.lan" and this will be the domain of your local network.
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Improving boot time on a general Linux distribution
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Mandriva has done quite a lot of work on optimizing boot speed for its latest release, Mandriva Linux 2009. Frederic Crozat (head of the French engineering team) has written a blog post summarizing Mandriva's past work on this front, and the tweaks and improvements made for 2009.
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I was user of nvidia video card and I was happy to use it in F7 and F8 but unfortunately I replaced that card with a newer one. That time the card was ATI. Of course I did not check if that card is supported in Fedora 9 (I have to blame myself) and just took it. Recently I noticed the news about that how "open" ATI would be in the future. And now I experience their "openness" with my computer.
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How to join the Linux movement
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Every week we get someone asking about Linux what is it, why is it and should I do it? The answer is complicated.
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