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Introducing Linux for technophobes
News A new Linux distribution designed to be as user friendly as possible went into beta testing on Tuesday. BabelDisc, the brainchild of UK internet pioneer and Pipex founder Peter Dawe, is a lightweight Ubuntu-based distribution that runs only from a...
[April 18, 2007, 15:25]
Microsoft hires Gentoo Linux founder
News Microsoft has hired one of the key figures behind a popular Linux distribution to educate its in-house developers about open source. Gentoo is a distribution of Linux that its developers claim is fully customisable for any application or need.
[June 16, 2005, 10:55]
Novell survey: Suse users are young, technical males
News Users of the Linux distribution OpenSuse are overwhelmingly technical, young males and they prefer working in a character-based environment rather than with a GUI, or graphical user interface, according to a survey conducted by Novell, the creator...
[May 9, 2007, 9:41]
Tesco to track milk deliveries by RFID
News Tesco is to start using RFID tags to track the delivery of milk to distribution plants and stores. The move signals the next phase of Tesco's RFID plans, which involve using permanent radio tags on "returnable transport items" such as the cages and...
[June 2, 2006, 9:40]
Microsoft angered by UK developer
News Microsoft has demanded that a London-based Windows developer withdraws a version of his free debugging tool from distribution, and is claiming that the tool breaches its licensing conditions. Cansdale has been given until 4pm on Friday to withdraw...
[June 1, 2007, 10:03]
Debian struggling with security
News Debian is facing difficulties getting timely security updates to users of its Linux distribution due to lack of manpower and software problems. The issues recently surfaced when Debian released the latest version of its Linux distribution early in...
[July 5, 2005, 9:40]
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 4 (Xubuntu Xfce)
Blog In Part 1 of this series I looked at some general netbook concepts, and the "standard" Ubuntu distribution. For this final part I will look at Xubuntu, the Ubuntu distribution based on the Xfce desktop.
[November 9, 2009, 14:26]
Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala) on Netbooks - Part 2 (Netbook Remix)
Blog In Part 1 I discussed some generalities about the new Ubuntu 9.10 distribution, and some issues related to using it on netbook computers. From the user's perspective, UNR has been changed in two critical ways from the "standard" Ubuntu (Gnome...
[November 5, 2009, 10:17]
Oracle expands hardware support for Linux
News Oracle on Tuesday expanded the list of hardware compatible with its Linux distribution and added support for Novell's Yast administration tool. Last year, Oracle launched its own distribution of Linux designed to be compatible with Red Hat...
[August 9, 2007, 15:50]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2
Blog I set about installing the new Mandriva One 2010.0 RC2 distribution today, on all of the various netbooks and notebooks around here. However, this Mandriva distribution is using the latest X.org server (1.6.4), so it doesn't even really need a...
[October 14, 2009, 14:12]
Debian team prepares for imminent release
News Developers of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution are frantically squashing software bugs in an effort to get version 3.1 out by the scheduled 6 June release date. Martin Schulze - another Debian developer - outlined in another recent e-mail update...
[May 31, 2005, 14:25]
ActiveTcl
Downloads ActiveTcl is the industry-standard Tcl distribution, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. ActiveTcl is 100% compatible with the reference distribution of Tcl. Developers worldwide rely on ActiveTcl's completeness and...
[May 4, 2009, 15:12]
Read the Report
Talkback The project was not a failure due to the OS distribution choice or because the choosen distribution did'nt work I've been told it was simply due to the business (Libraries) not wanting to implement a solution which they saw as a too big change for...
[November 20, 2006, 21:53]
Read the Report
Talkback The project was not a failure due to the OS distribution choice or because the choosen distribution did'nt work I've been told it was simply due to the business (Libraries) not wanting to implement a solution which they saw as a too big change for...
[November 20, 2006, 22:09]
Read the Report
Talkback The project was not a failure due to the OS distribution choice or because the choosen distribution did'nt work I've been told it was simply due to the business (Libraries) not wanting to implement a solution which they saw as a too big change for...
[November 21, 2006, 16:22]
Enabling IPTV: What Carriers Need to Know to Succeed
White Papers Successfully launching IPTV depends on choosing the right network architecture both in terms of fiber rollout and the video distribution system. The video distribution system must be approached with a similar objective - compete today and tomorrow.
[May 16, 2008, 9:15]
Distro choice
Talkback "Ubuntu was not chosen as the maturity of the distribution and official support was not proven" Distrowatch has been listing Ubuntu as the most popular distribution on the planet for years now: http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?
[November 21, 2006, 16:29]
Red Hat predicts death of Solaris
Talkback "The Red Hat Network systems management tool is to gain the ability to manage software distribution and configuration for Solaris, with Red Hat claiming the features are the "the final nail in the coffin" for Sun's operating system.
[February 18, 2005, 7:53]
A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment The subect I read and replied to was about the end of the grid and distribution going DC, not just LED lights. For delivering power to millions or at least 100's of thousands of people who have a variety of high power requirements, and even for...
[July 13, 2007, 20:32]
New Slackware Linux Release Available
Blog The Slackware Linux Project has released their version 12.2 distribution. In my personal opinion, Slackware is not a distribution for beginners, it is aimed squarely at experienced Linux users! Every time I do something with Slackware it brings...
[December 16, 2008, 12:27]
