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April 23rd, 2009
The Linux wonder child Ubuntu has finally released the next major version today – Ubuntu 9.04 ‘Jaunty Jackalope’.
New features include:
1. Gnome 2.26 desktop environment, which includes the following new features:
a) brasero, an all-in-one CD burning application.
b) Improved multi-monitor handling.
2. X.Org server 1.6, which supports several new video cards, as well as ATI-specific performance [...]
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November 1st, 2008
The long awaited Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) was released today.
And I’m telling you guys, with each release and release this thing gets better and better, closer and closer to a proper desktop OS.
Some of the veteran readers here might remember my short experiment with using Ubuntu as my main OS instead of Windows. I’m actually [...]
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May 17th, 2008
ASUS just announced that some of their top motherboard will feature “Express Gate”, actually a different name for Splashtop.
And boy, Splashtop is cool. Splashtop is a full Linux OS environment, pre-set with browser, email, Skype and other Internet applications which you can start using immediately after turning your machine on. There’s practically no booting as [...]
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April 24th, 2008
If you’ve been following this blog for some time, you know I’m working at Yoggie, a great company with great products.
As I’ve written before, Yoggie’s Gatekeeper Pico is essentially a USB-sized miniature computer running Linux and a full Internet security suite, so you just stick it into the USB port of a Windows machine and [...]
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