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A tour of Jolicloud's netbook Linux OS

A tour of Jolicloud's netbook Linux OS

...name would suggest — its synchronisation with the cloud. A person installing the distro creates an account that lets them sync their desktop with Jolicloud's... Read more

20 July, 2010 by David Meyer

EMC taps MapR technology for Hadoop distro

The storage specialist will use technology from MapR for its own enterprise Hadoop distribution and for its Greenplum data-analytics appliances, turning its back on partner Cloudera Read more

26 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

Cloudera releases Hadoop distro with open-source extras

The third version of Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop wraps a range of extra Hadoop-based applications for a 'pure' open-source software stack Read more

12 April, 2011 by Jack Clark
<endeca_term>Distro</endeca_term> 1.0.1

Distro 1.0.1

Engadget Distro brings the best articles from the Engadget site to your tablet in... Read more

12 October, 2011

Linux Minted

...installed Linux Mint 12, almost officially the world's most popular Linux distro, made easy for simpletons such as myself. I was swayed by ZDNet... Read more

21 December, 2011

Nokia's worst nightmare: a successful MeeGo N9

...N9, and it looks great. What looks particularly great is the Linux distro it's running, MeeGo. Not that you could tell it's running... Read more

21 June, 2011

Shuttleworth hints at Ubuntu's future with latest name

...revealed the name for the next-but-one version of the Linux distro, saying it will reflect the graphical enhancements and ARM optimisation of Ubuntu... Read more

19 August, 2010 by David Meyer
Why Linux is forging ahead on the desktop

Why Linux is forging ahead on the desktop

...appearing on the Linux desktop every year.Pictured above is the E17 distro.Image credit: Jack Wallen Read more

6 May, 2012 by Jack Wallen

Ubuntu 12.04 aims at enterprise and cloud

...s OpenStack." But isn't a rapidly evolving OpenStack incompatible with a distro that promises Long Term Support? "The six-monthly OpenStack releases will be... Read more

27 April, 2012
A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint

A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Linux Mint's recent climb to the top of the DistroWatch rankings and strong reactions to Ubuntu's Unity shell have led to speculation that Ubuntu's glory days could be over. We examine these two popular distros to see where they came from, where they stand and where they may be headed. Read more

10 February, 2012 by Terry Relph-Knight
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

...did little to address the underlying scalability of the Red Hat Linux distro — a charge that can't be levelled at its successor, which is... Read more

11 January, 2011 by Alan Stevens

APTonCD - another reason to use Linux

...or the Synaptic Package Manager or the Software Manager of the Debian distro of your choice, find the software, click install, and there we go... Read more

26 March, 2012

Ubuntu drops to fourth place in Linux rankings

...was probably to blame. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, made Unity the distro's default user interface earlier this year, although users can still use... Read more

24 November, 2011

Ubuntu to run across desktops, phones, tablets in 2014

...buttoned sidebar interface called Unity that has split opinion, but given the distro greater potential touch-friendliness. According to Shuttleworth, "Unity has a strong design... Read more

31 October, 2011

How a Linux DVD duplicator saved my pocket

...Windows Free Software collection OpenDisc and Linux Mint, a polished Ubuntu derivative distro. I looked at buying a dedicated DVD duplicator for £150+ and... Read more

26 April, 2011

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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