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Community contributor Jürgen Keil and Sun engineer Jan Setje-Eilers have been working together to get OpenSolaris based operating systems to work under Apple's BootCamp . Today Jan announced that he had successfully installed and booted build 36 of Solaris Nevada (plus some hacks).
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"It may be a brave opinion but I predict
that Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista are going to be the two operating systems that will take over the largest chunk of the desktop OS market during the next couple of years. This comparison is based on my experience with both systems during the last couple of weeks on two different computers."
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 16th Mar 2006 01:00 UTC, submitted by Not_My_Real_Name
The director of platform strategy at Microsoft, Bill Hilf has lead the Linux and open source software technology group at Redmond for the past two years and formerly headed the global Linux technical strategy of IBM.
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Over the past few years SATA has become a standard interface on hard drives and is starting to show up in many peripheral devices. Today we're taking a look at two similar hard drives to see if there's a performance difference between SATA and the older Parallel IDE standard.
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"KDE 4 is coming. It's starting to look and behave in a mature enough manner to use it on a normal desktop. This article is a little introduction as to what you should expect from the brand new KDE that is due out later this year."
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Ky. Libertarians not ready for decision on Landham
The head of Kentucky's Libertarian Party said party leaders are not ready to take action against U.S. Senate hopeful Sonny Landham for a series of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim remarks. Ken Moellman made the remarks on Saturday on "The Weekly Filibuster," an Internet radio program on politics with student panelists. Moellman said a decision on whether Landham would run as a Libertarian on the ...
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Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Sat 26th Jul 2008 16:08 UTC
Weekend fun for the OS junkies. A collection of some interesting quotes from the three influential figures in the history of Operating Systems. Some of the quotes are controversial and some of them are just shockingly funny.
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Microsoft has said it will not sue Linux users with regards to the company's patent claims. " We're not litigating . If we wanted to we would have done so years ago," said Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's VP for intellectual property and licensing, in an interview.
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Michael Loeffler has announced the release of OpenSUSE 10.2 to the ftp servers. "As usual, we ship all the latest open source packages available at the time.
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Smudgy Pictures of Nokia's Tube Show New, Bland Interface [Rumor]
A bunch of new photos and specs for Nokia's Tube, a.k.a. The 5800 XpressMusic, have been leaked to the Internet. The alleged iPhone killer will apparently come with a 16:9 16 million color TFT LCD...
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MSI Wind With 6-Cell Battery Now Available [MSI Wind]
MSI is jumping the gun with its 6-cell version of the Wind laptop. Originally slated for a September release, the MSI Wind is currently available at Mwave.com. Those battery shortages that threatened...
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"Microsoft, apparently, is helping the folks at Mono to port Silverlight to Linux. This is good news, as the primary fear I've heard from developers is that Silverlight will be locked to Microsoft platforms and products.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 4th Aug 2007 20:57 UTC
Google Trends recently updated their online "popularity" meter and Ubuntu remains the clear No1 Linux distro in terms of search trend. Fedora and Debian seem to be battling for the second position, while SuSE had a small "trend" loss in the 3rd place.
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She's Got Game
FAYETTEVILLE - One look around Sarah Eldridge's office leaves no doubt about her enthusiasm as executive director of Pagnozzi Charities. Louisville Sluggers signed by friends of Tom Pagnozzi, founder of the organization, hang in a glass box near her computer.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 31st Aug 2006 23:07 UTC
Improvements : "New 3D desktop support (both with AIGLX and Xgl) and a new tool to configure it (drak3d); new 'One' CD with 3D desktop support (AIGLX and Xgl, both on KDE and GNOME, autodetection of the best 3D solution); new rpmdrake; more applications migrated to XDG menus; GNOME 2.16 RC1; kernel 2.6.17 (based on 2.6.17.8 with ALSA 1.0.12 rc2); KDE 3.5.4; new 'Ia Ora' Mandriva theme (still ...
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Journals week in review: news from One Microsoft Way
This week in top Microsoft news on Ars, we cover IE8, Vista, Windows Search 4.0, trueSpace 7.6, WorldWide Telescope, Windows Home Server, Outlook Connector, and Zune. Details on what exactly happened with all these products inside. Read More...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Feb 2006 20:16 UTC
"Microsoft still is expected to deliver the next Windows Vista milestone , the February Community Technology Preview release, next week - most likely on Feb. 21, according to testers briefed last month by Microsoft."
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Lion becomes internet sensation
THE heart-tugging video diary of Christian the lion, a big cat who lived in a London antiques shop, has become an internet sensation - 38 years after he was returned to life in the African bush.
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NOAA Requires License For Photos of the Earth
Teancum writes "In an interesting show of the level of regulations private spacecraft designers have to go through, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has demanded that American participants of the Google Lunar X Prize obtain a license if their spacecraft are "capable of actively or passively sensing the Earth's surface, including bodies of water, from space by making use ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 27th Aug 2005 19:41 UTC
Richard Stallman, chair of the Free Software Foundation, said on Thursday that the Linux trademark fracas in Australia has distracted attention away from the real issue - that of freedom to distribute and change software.
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If you are looking for a desktop Linux with all the ease and user-friendliness of OS X, Linspire Five-O is a great option. It may not be the best for advanced users, but home and SOHO users will be happy with its performance, support, and great looks, the review says.
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In an attempt to convince The Open Group that they finally want to fully Open Source Motif and CDE Peter Howkins has started a petition to help gauge how much interest there is. CDE, the Common Desktop Enviroment, was the default desktop on several commercial UNIX distributions.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Jan 2006 18:18 UTC
"Probably everyone who reads DesktopLinux.com encounters the same question over and over again: "What's the best Linux desktop distribution?" Now, while some people will swear up and down that Slackware or Fedora or even Puppy, for that matter, is the best Linux desktop, I think the answer is more complicated . In fact, I don't think there is a single answer."
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 18th Jan 2006 10:59 UTC
Opera 8.5 Pocket PC beta version is based on the same core as the Opera 8.5 desktop browser and brings the full internet to mobile Pocket PCs.
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In this article .NET 2.0 won 2 out of the 3 major tests – clearly besting Java 1.5 in both execution speed and real-world memory efficiency. Java did, however, manage to hold its own in the native types memory comparison by a pretty wide margin.
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