Archive for November, 2008

[ Thanks to Adam Palmer for this link. ] “Here is the base, the insulation tape all over the place is to hold down the connectors that I won’t be needing.
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“The ARM version of Ubuntu initially will support the ARMv7 RISC architecture, including SoCs (system-on-chip processors) based on ARM Ltd’s Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 cores, according to the companies.”

One of those traditional “I’m a user of abc, trying out xyz” articles. This time, a Mac user tries Ubuntu 8.10, and concludes: “Linux has come a long way, but it’s not totally ready for the mom and pop folks, in my opinion. In the two days of testing, with two occasions it refused to load the graphic drivers and I could not enjoy Compiz. I found a tutorial which taught me how to modify xorg.conf …

The Linux Foundation has published a series of video interviews from the annual Linux Kernel Summit held Sept. 15-16 in Portland, Oregon. In the videos, 16 developers – including Linux creator Linus Torvalds – discuss their development activities.

“Over the past few months we’ve taken both Fedora and Ubuntu out for a spin, so when the openSUSE project announced the latest testing (or “beta”) version of its Linux distribution had been released, we couldn’t resist the temptation.