And I hope that he and his team are able to offer a stable, fast service long before Microsoft make significant headway with their secretive Midori project.
Puppy Linux version 4 is a good choice if you're looking for a portable Linux OS, writes reviewer Jack Germain. You can load it onto a thumb drive and run it from multiple PCs, taking all your personal settings with you. Its tiny size comes with a few shortcomings, however.
While going over Linux Hater's Blog, I can best describe it as Béranger on anabolic steroids. I'm sorry if I can't find a better description than that, but for clarity sake, I would simply put Linux Hater's blog as a series of rants against Linux as well as other open source software.
Microsoft, a staunch opponent of Linux, already understands this very vividly. They no longer see Windows as just an "operating system", but as an entire platform. They realize that the only way Windows has a prayer of surviving, especially in today's open source world, is if everything runs on Windows, including every FOSS program out there. They've even admitted that as much themselves, saying that they think that all open source should run on Windows.
FREEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZEEE! That's it. We're feature frozen now. This means what you have in 2.23.6 is a good approximation of what you'll get in 2.24.0.
Fedora 10 will be released on 28th October 2008, let’s take a look at what some of the upcoming features, 9 of them have been accepted by the team, 5 more are still in the “proposed” state. If you want you can check the whole list.
An integrated SD card slot is a nice feature, whilst the miniBook also has three USB ports. Linux comes pre-installed, which no doubt helps to keep the machine’s price down.
A Germany-based retailer called One is shipping four branded, Linux-based netbooks that consume only 3.5 Watts apiece. The One A440, A110, A115, and A140 are all based on the Via C7-M Ultra Low Voltage processor (ULV), and come with integrated Via graphics chips.
Designers can choose from a variety of open-source-software components ranging from multiple variations of the wildly popular Linux operating system to sophisticated debugging tools.
Bug Labs was also on hand, showing off a few new updates to its Bug Base gadget platform. The hardware is essentially the same, but the software interface for the Lego-like gadget prototyper has been improved.
The Mozilla and Nokia teams have been working hard to port Firefox 3 and the Mozilla Platform to Qt and there are now some solid results available from their efforts. An experimental build of Firefox Qt is available and you can download the sources from Mozilla's mercurial repository. The plan is to merge the Qt branch into the central Mozilla branch to make the port official.
In a sign of how much Linux has become a core element in many corporate data centers, many of the new products making their debut at this week's LinuxWorld show focus on such critical IT operations as data integration, disaster recovery and security management.
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David Gerard
2008-08-08 09:35:12
Roy Schestowitz
2008-08-08 10:29:15