06.17.08
Posted in News Roundup at 4:32 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
GNU/Linux
- RM delivers Linux-fuelled Eee
Tim let slip that he could be breaking an NDA over the following information – there’s a £25 price difference between the Linux version and the Windows XP. This came across that there’s an additional cost to customers from choosing the vole version over the penguin, but their product manager cleared this up later. The CEO was just referring to an internal cost for Asus and that’s all. RM will continue to offer the original Minibook models with Linux applied, just in case you were worried.
- 2D-Only Open-Source GTX 260/280 Support
This morning NVIDIA had unveiled the GeForce GTX 200 series and already NVIDIA’s Aaron Plattner has committed support for these cards to the open-source xf86-video-nv driver.
- Amarok 2 Alpha – An Early Look at What’s Going On
Currently, it’s very obvious Amarok 2 is in the alpha phase. The major thing that changed is the interface, which looks nicer and more modern now, with the collection browser located in the left and the playlist itself located to the right side of Amarok’s window.
- Linux-based telecom platform boasts in-service upgrades
- Debian Release Goals
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PitaGuy said,
June 17, 2008 at 8:35 am
goodd dammmiitt
http://www.spreadfirefox.com goes beelly up under the load !!!!
haha
Roy Schestowitz said,
June 17, 2008 at 8:39 am
Not to worry, that’s good publicity. People will return later.
It’s the same with PCLOS and Ubuntu at times.
PitaGuy said,
June 17, 2008 at 8:39 am
for suckerss
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
PitaGuy said,
June 17, 2008 at 8:43 am
for suckerss
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/
Its 1 PM EST so guys stop spamming the website for god sake
Check the EST here. And NO bots – okkk
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java
Roy Schestowitz said,
June 17, 2008 at 8:44 am
I’d love to see the bandwidth meters.
PitaGuy said,
June 17, 2008 at 8:53 am
Free firefox 3 ebook…downloading noww..
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/firefox3/
PitaGuy said,
June 17, 2008 at 9:13 am
http://firefox.s3.sitepoint.com/ff3-revealed.zip
Roy Schestowitz said,
June 17, 2008 at 9:21 am
Personally, I’m just waiting until the weekend when I’ll test it at home, then put it at work as well. I can run 2.0 at the same time with GNUCat. The memory benchmarks on GNU/Linux seem disappointing.
PitaGuy said,
June 17, 2008 at 12:16 pm
WTF is mozilla doing ! Wht a mess this event is !! Still no sign of FF3 !!!
Roy Schestowitz said,
June 17, 2008 at 12:32 pm
The IRC channel says the site is down.