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Samsung N150 Plus Netbook - Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu Maverick and Jolicloud

...around to that yet. Otherwise Fedora looks very good on the N150. Mandriva 2010.1 (Spring): Installed with no trouble. As with the others, the... Read more

6 September, 2010

Mandriva 2010.2 Released

Mandriva has released a new distribution, which they are calling 2010.2. From... Read more

23 December, 2010

Mandriva Saved by New Investor(s

...sufficiently close attention you might have noticed strange things going on at Mandriva. The 2010.1 (Spring) release has not come out, and the planned... Read more

23 June, 2010

Mandriva Linux 2011.0 Released

...Woodstock, perhaps you are at least old enough to remember that this Mandriva release has been "in the works" for a very long time. Despite... Read more

29 August, 2011

Mandriva Linux 2010.1 (Spring) Released - Finally

...date, and a lot of uncertainty about the release in particular and Mandriva Linux in general, the final release of Mandriva 2010.1 (Spring) is... Read more

9 July, 2010

Mageia 1 Linux Distribution Released

...year or so ago, rumors started flying in the Linux community about Mandriva Linux having serious commercial/organizational problems. The facts didn't take long... Read more

3 June, 2011

Mageia 2 Released

...Magiea 2 was made available today. Mageia is a spinoff from the Mandriva distribution, which was created by a group of Mandriva developers and contributors... Read more

23 May, 2012

Samsung N150 Plus Netbook - Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04

...they perform. I'm planning at least openSuSE 11.3, Fedora 13, Mandriva 2010.1 and SimplyMEPIS 8.5. Also, the Beta release of Ubuntu... Read more

31 August, 2010

Mageia 2 Beta 3 - A Preview

...was that it feels like an absolutely up to date version of Mandriva. I do not mean for that to be negative in any way... Read more

21 April, 2012

Six Different Linux Distributions, one HP 2133 Mini-Note Netbook

My HP 2133 Mini-Note with WSVGA (1024x600) display has been out on loan for several months. It came back a week or so... Read more

8 June, 2010
Linux nostalgia: What I miss from times past

Linux nostalgia: What I miss from times past

...were popping up daily. Of course, most were spinoffs of Red Hat, Mandriva, Suse, or Debian. But some really constituted advances in task, size or... Read more

8 April, 2011 by Jack Wallen

The Stalwart HP 2133 Mini-Note

I'm sitting here on the font porch swing, browsing and typing on my trusty HP 2133. It was the first netbook that I... Read more

3 April, 2011

Samsung NF310 Netbook

For a product which has been declared "dead" by some so-called experts, Netbooks still have a lot of interesting... Read more

9 March, 2011

Pre-Release Paradise

...Zenwalk Linux 7.0 (RC3) - Final release due out Real Soon Now Mandriva 2011 Alpha2 - Final release due out 13 June Mageia (Alpha 1) - Final... Read more

8 March, 2011

A Tale of the Synaptics "ClickPad"

...Synaptics drivers. All Others (Ubuntu 10.10, Linux Mint 10, Fedora 14, Mandriva 2010.2, Jolicloud 1.1, Mint Debian, Pinguy) - at the very least... Read more

5 January, 2011

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

16 minutes ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

42 minutes ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

2 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

4 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

5 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

6 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

6 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

8 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

9 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

10 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

11 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

12 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

13 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

13 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

14 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

18 hours ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

20 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

22 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

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

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry