Tux Radar: “At the time of writing, there are three hundred and twenty three distributions being tracked on distrowatch.com. There’s one called Ehad. And another is called Estrella Roja. Many include the letter ‘X’ in their name, and many feature hand-drawn mascots and disparate communities. Not all are Linux-based, and not all are actively development, but the overwhelming majority are. This is …
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Archive for April, 2009
How to choose the best Linux distro for you (Linux Today)
Author: adminApr 30
HP Laptops come with SuSE Linux ED 11 pre-installed (Linux Today)
Author: adminApr 30
ItRunsOnLinux: “HP is launching a new line of inexpensive business laptops, the ProBook s-series. These laptops can be ordered with Novell Inc’s SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 pre-installed.”
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/dev/null And /dev/zero On Linux And Unix: What’s The Difference? (Linux Today)
Author: adminApr 30
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: “Most folks, at least initially, consider /dev/null and /dev/zero to be virtually equivalent. And, even though the names make that conclusion seem self-evident, the truth is actually quite the opposite. The two files differ quite drastically, although not in every aspect.”
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New NetBSD, Mandriva Releases (Overclockers Club)
Author: adminApr 30
The NetBSD Project has released NetBSD 5.0, its thirteenth release of the operating system. This release features a rewritten threading subsystem which allows for scalability and large performance gains on SMP enabled systems, the jemalloc memory allocator, and many other new features and updates. Available for download from an FTP mirror . Mandriva announced the release of Mandriva Linux 2009 …
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Mandriva 2009 Spring Released (Slashdot)
Author: adminApr 30
Frederik writes “Mandriva just released the 2009 Spring version of its distribution. Highlights of this new version include vastly improved boot times thanks to Speedboot, KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26.1, XFCE 4.6 and LXDE desktop environments, a completely rewritten Mandriva Security Centre and improved firewall and network configuration tools, OLPC Sugar environment, QT Creator development …
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