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Who let the dog out, Puppy Linux 4 released.

After 6 months of development, Puppy Linux 4 has been released. The last 6 months has seen lots of development and this version is a significant upgrade to its predecessor. Puppy Linux 4 is now a complete GTK2 system and all GTK1 and Tcl/Tk code has been abandoned. Now with the support for GTK2 there are lots of new applications: ePDFView (PDF viewer), Pschedule (cron GUI), Osmo (personal organiser), Pcdripper ...

Kubuntu 8.04 and Kubuntu 8.04 KDE 4 Remix Released

The latest version of Kubuntu Linux has been released today. The 8.04 (meaning April 2008) release, code named the Hardy Heron, hit the download servers this morning. Kubuntu 8.04 will consist of two different releases, the commercially supported one featuring the stable KDE 3.5.9 desktop and a remix featuring the latest release of KDE 4.0. The following is a quick breakdown of the type of support and distributions methods ...

PayPal Says Linux is Good; Know-it-all Web User Says Otherwise

There is a great article and interview over at Information Week where the manager of PayPal's payment system talks about how Linux is being used to power their entire electronic payment processing system. This Linux system is currently processing $1,571 worth of transactions per second in 17 different currencies. In 2006, the online payments firm, which started out over a bakery in Palo Alto, processed a total of $37.6 ...

Asus EeePc available on the Romanian market!

This one came in the mailbox, the post_mail_box, of course. Mediagalaxy included this cutie in their latest advertisement paper. We've been watching it for a while, now that it's here it seems unbelievable! Intel Mobile 900MHz, 512MB DDR2, 4GB storage, webcam, Wlan, card reader, built-in speakers and mike. It comes with Linux and - this one made me giggle - is Windows XP compatible! It is sold as ...

DirectX 9.0c on Linux with Wine

There is a great post over at the wine-review blog about getting DirectX 9c working on Linux with Wine. There are also some great screen shots which at first make it look like the DirectX 9 demos are broken but in fact the author points out that "the cube looks bad because its spinning at about 10,000 fps so fast its just a blur. and thats how the ...

Linus on the future of Linux

The creator of Linux is excited about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of interest in the area. All this and more is revealed in an interview with Linus here.

With Love from GNU/Linux: sidux 2007-04 “Ερως”

We told you it's coming, a few days ago, you could smell it. Here it is, still steaming, the fourth release of sidux, named Ερως after Greek mitholgy! Another snapshot of debian's unstable branch (AKA sid) spiced up with sidux's own scripts and the ever so up-to-date slh-kernels, all this as sidux is approaching it's first birthday. You can download the images, for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping ...

Debian/GNU/Linux on the Asus Eee Pc?

Still your eyes on the little beauty called EeePc? There's some cooking happening, Debian style, aiming to run Linux on the cutie. No much content yet, but hey, Asus' small portable just recently made it into our homes! Hopefully this project will become real and alive ASAP. We will monitor this, as it seems something that makes a real tech-heart pump.

Few days to new sidux snapshot!

That's right, snapshot! 'Cause sidux is a "rolling release", always fresh from the latest in the debian/sid repos. It has been from it's early days one of our fun-and-work environment, we only can recommend it. The second preview of sidux 2007-04 "Ερως" is already out and being reviewed, there are no major reasons for delay, except the state of the pool. "...a turbulent week behind the scenes of ...

Fedora Core 8 is out

Today the Fedora Core project has released version 8 of its Linux Distribution. This 8th edition includes new features such as PulseAudio, that brings ear candy to Fedora users (like allowing users set different volumes for different programs) and the 64-bit version of the tickless kernel, a low-level feature designed to reduce power consumption and increase efficiency by letting the computer actually idle when it's not busy. In ...

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