10.06.08
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Posted in News Roundup at 2:05 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
GNU/Linux
- The BeBook eBook Reader is a great device
- Intel’s GEM Coming In Linux 2.6.28 Kernel
- Another IKEA linux cluster
In a bit of serendipity, reader [Tim Molter] had decided on the IKEA Helmer cabinet for his new cluster right before seeing the previous IKEA cluster we covered. He and his coding partner recently completed building their own version of the IKEA Linux cluster. The cabinet was $30 and holds six headless boxes. Each board has a quad-core AMD processor for a total of 24 cores.
- Mandriva 2009 ScreenShots RC2
For you Microsoft Windows Users, I think I feel I finally found a Linux OS that I can say that my wife will use and not get confused….. I had her using this distro for a couple of hours and she really enjoyed it except that it is missing the Ubuntu Fire Fox plugin that makes installing plugins so easy :(. But Mandriva’s Control Panel is so like Windows Control Panel so Windows users do not fret and feel safe using Mandriva.
- Open-source software and Linux at HP
- Free, Professional Music Production: A Linux Introduction
These are but two small examples of a much larger change that’s seeping through the music industry. The power of the internet and the ability to share information freely is giving more and more power to the individual user, and with it we’re starting to witness a kind of renaissance in the way we distribute and produce music.
- Voodoo Envy 133 unboxing and impressions
- True GNU
I switched back because, now, the situation is reversed. Since AMD bought ATI last year, ATI has been regaining market share. Moreover, while AMD’s behavior is far from perfect towards free software, it is still friendlier than any other manufacturer. Now, thanks to AMD, ATI free and open source drivers seem likely to mature first before NVidia ones.
- Xubuntu 8.04 [screenshots]
- Linux turns 17
- One-time hobby now free to everyone
- Android has power of a clean sheet
- Open-source server appliance is ‘free’
- gOS 3 – the most beautiful Linux
- gOS 3.0 Gadgets ScreenShots
- Atmosphir Game Review
- What’s Coming In Ubuntu 8.10: Intrepid Ibex
- Gentoo : First thoughts after the switch
- Omega 10 Live CD Beta: Fedora With Added Multimedia
I wanted to run a couple of other multimedia tests on a more powerful desktop machine – it has an AMD Sempron 3800+ processor and 1.5GB of RAM with two DVD drives. On this machine Omega 10 loaded much quicker, the sound and screen resolution (1280×1024) were perfect and my wired network was automatically configured.
F/OSS
KDE
Leftovers
- Judge halts sales of RealDVD
- Wal-Mart Drops DRM Servers, Customers Lose Music
To those of you who were loyal early adopters of Wal-Mart’s music download service, Wal-Mart has a message for you: Say goodbye to your music. Since February Wal-Mart has offered only DRM-free songs for download, but before that customers of Wal-Mart’s service could download songs encoded with DRM. BoingBoing picked up an e-mail Wal-Mart sent to its customers saying the DRM servers will be shut down on October 9, making it impossible for customers to transfer their DRM encoded music to a music device or another PC after that date.
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