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PC World Denies Linux Warranty Void
News PC World has denied reports that it considers the warranties on its computers void if customers install Linux. On Tuesday, a reader of the technology news website Slashdot claimed to have taken a recently bought Acer laptop back to PC World to have...
[September 12, 2007, 16:33]
Linux Can Read Your PC Floppy Disks
News By default, Linux will not accept PC disks. When you try to mount a PC disk on the Linux floppy drive, you are forced to reformat with Linux's native ext2 filesystem. Working with PC disks in Linux Using Linuxconf and a few clicks of the mouse, you...
[November 24, 2002, 19:55]
Linux Vendors Hope To Ride PC Upgrade Wave
News Linux vendors are salivating at the prospect of taking market share away from Microsoft's Windows in the PC desktop market as enterprises embark on the biggest desktop refresh since Y2K. Linux's share of the desktop PC market is growing, but is...
[May 21, 2004, 13:10]
Linux-PC Firm Touts @linux.net Email
News The company began selling its $20 Linare Linux desktop software package in September and its $199 Linux PC last week. Linare, newly embarked as a seller of cheap Linux PCs, will offer an email service for fans of the open-source operating system...
[October 13, 2003, 10:35]
Dell's Linux PC Launch Founders
News Dell's Linux PC launch has gone belly up as the computer supplier admitted it has been hit by "gremlins". Dell said on Tuesday that it would launch two PCs with a pre-installed Linux operating system today.
[August 8, 2007, 18:25]
Securely Setting Up A Linux PC
News When a computer attempts to access a service such as a secure shell server on your new Linux PC the /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow files will be processed and access will.For more, click here.be granted or refused based on some easily...
[December 14, 2005, 11:40]
Securely Setting Up A Linux PC
Talkback Note: I personally have no virus scanner on my Linux PC either - so I'm criticizing myself here too. When I install a Windows PC I install a firewall and a virus scanner by default. It shouldn't be any different for Linux.
[December 15, 2005, 10:43]
Dell Seeks To Clarify Linux PC Sales
News A PC dealer in Europe has begun selling Dell desktops equipped with Linux, but Dell emphasised that the systems were customised by the dealer and that this isn't the first time this has happened. Dell's Linux partner is Red Hat Software; the PC...
[July 7, 2004, 9:00]
HP Breaks New Ground With Linux Desktop PC
News With a PC announced on Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard has made it a bit easier to buy Linux pre-installed on a desktop computer -- a seemingly small step that nevertheless would have been unlikely to occur as recently as two years ago.
[July 3, 2003, 16:09]
Xbox Transformed Into Linux PC
News A group of programmers have managed to turn Microsoft's Xbox gaming console -- which is built on standard components found in a PC -- back into a desktop computer. That is the effect, at least, of a breakthrough by the Xbox Linux Project, which on...
[September 3, 2002, 13:38]
I-Opener No Longer A $99 Linux PC
News Netpliance has delayed shipping some orders placed before March 20 to alert buyers that the product has been changed so that it can no longer run Linux or other operating systems. I-Opener garnered a lot of attention in March after Las Vegas...
[April 6, 2000, 10:04]
Hitachi Updates Linux Tablet PC
News Hitachi will release its latest Transmeta Crusoe-based tablet PC on Wednesday, the Flora-ie 55mi -- but this gadget will only be available in Japan for the time being. It runs on a 400MHz Crusoe TM3200 processor with Transmeta's Midori embedded...
[April 18, 2001, 16:18]
Large Scale Parallel Reservoir Simulations On A Linux PC-Cluster
White Papers It also presents performance comparison among Xeon Linux PC clusters and an IBM SP Nighthawk supercomputer. This paper investigates the use of state of the art PC clusters in simulation of massive reservoir models.
[April 19, 2007, 0:00]
LinuxWorld: VA To Introduce Low-cost Linux PC
News And many people who install Linux themselves on a desktop PC do so on a machine that already has Windows. Augustin said VA's new machine is designed for people who are just becoming interested in Linux and are looking for a low-cost PC -- people...
[August 11, 1999, 10:29]
Linux Tablet PC Breaks $1000 Barrier
News A small PC maker and a Linux distributor have teamed up to offer a tablet-style PC for $999 (about £600), hundreds of dollars less than similar devices running Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software.
[December 2, 2003, 8:40]
Exploring The Performance Of The Myrinet PC-Cluster On Linux
White Papers The paper further presents a series of experiments on the communication performance of three different Myrinet PC-cluster on Linux. Both the Infiniband and the Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) aim at providing effective cluster communication.
[April 19, 2007, 0:00]
Linux-PC Firm Touts @linux.net Email
Talkback I actually have the email address rms@linux.net now. Ha ha ha ha. I wonder if Stallman would be pissed :) -- "It should be rms@gnulinux.net damn it!
[October 14, 2003, 3:04]
Securely Setting Up A Linux PC
Talkback There are tools like ClamAV if you want a virus scanner. Most of us don't feel the need yet. Virus scanners use a lot of CPU cycles and memory.
[December 15, 2005, 11:56]
Securely Setting Up A Linux PC
Talkback It works, just wrongly written in HTML. Edit it smartly.
[December 15, 2005, 6:46]
Dell Seeks To Clarify Linux PC Sales
Talkback 1°) in 2years about when linux on desktop will be significative, don't forget who has supported linux is it possible to know the "fee" given by M$ to dell each years ?
[July 8, 2004, 7:50]
