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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]
PC World pulls Linux netbooks from stores
News PC World, the UK's biggest computing retailer, is to stop selling Linux netbooks in its stores. The online operations of both PC World and Currys will, however, continue to carry netbooks with Linux as the operating system and with smaller screens.
[June 3, 2009, 13:32]
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]
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]
A Linux PC Cluster With Diskless Slave Nodes for Parallel Computing
White Papers This paper describes how to set up a diskless Linux box. In this paper, a SMP-based PC cluster consists of one master node and eight diskless slave nodes (16 processors), is proposed and built. As technology is advancing rapidly, network-cards are...
[February 2, 2009, 0:00]
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]
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. The hard drive allowed him to install Linux or other operating...
[April 6, 2000, 10:04]
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
Talkback Note: I personally have no virus scanner on my Linux PC either - so I'm criticizing myself here too. It shouldn't be any different for Linux. When I install a Windows PC I install a firewall and a virus scanner by default.
[December 15, 2005, 10:43]
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]
Hitachi updates Linux tablet PC
News It runs on a 400MHz Crusoe TM3200 processor with Transmeta's Midori embedded Linux operating system. 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...
[April 18, 2001, 16:18]
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]
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]
Xbox transformed into Linux PC
News That is the effect, at least, of a breakthrough by the Xbox Linux Project, which on Monday said it had managed to boot a version of the Linux operating system on the Xbox. Project members said they had loaded SuSE Linux 8 on the machine, along with...
[September 3, 2002, 13:38]
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, 1:00]
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 Why would you need a virus scanner in linux unless you're serving mail or files to Windows clients?
[December 18, 2005, 2:44]
