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Fedora 17 & GNOME 3.4: Return to a useful Linux desktop (Review)

May 14th, 2012 · No Comments

I have been using Fedora, Red Hat’s community Linux distribution, since day one back in September 2003 when Red Hat split its commercial Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Back then, people hated Red Hat for this move, but businesses soon learned to love RHEL and Linux fans grew to love Fedora. But, then along [...]

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Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Desktop · Development · Infrastructure · Linux · Open Source · Operating System · Red Hat · Server

Linus Torvalds likes the Google Chrome OS Linux desktop

May 4th, 2012 · Comments Off

Linus Torvalds, Linux’s primary creator, hasn’t been happy with the direction his formerly favorite Linux desktop interface, GNOME, has gone. In fact, Torvalds downright hates GNOME 3.x. He’ll get no argument from me. I hate GNOME 3.x too. Recently though, Torvalds has start toying with Google’s new Chrome operating system’s Aura interface and, guess what, [...]

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Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Desktop · Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Linux · Network · Operating System

Amazon tries to catch up in personal cloud storage and falls further behind

May 2nd, 2012 · Comments Off

Google Drive isn’t the holy grail of personal cloud services. But, Google Drive’s introduction has forced all the other players to up their game. Microsoft added paid storage options to SkyDrive. Dropbox doubled the free storage you got for bringing friends and families on board. And, Amazon introduced a desktop client for its Amazon Cloud [...]

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Tags: Amazon · Business · Cloud Computing · Infrastructure · Internet · Network · Storage

A walk through Google Drive (Screenshots)

April 25th, 2012 · Comments Off

Google Drive is much, much, more than just another storage option. Let’s look it over shall we? A walk through Google Drive (Screenshots) More >

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Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Desktop · Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Network · Network Services · Web Services

Hands on with Google Drive (Review)

April 24th, 2012 · Comments Off

It took Google long enough. We’ve been hearing rumors for years that Google was going to release personal cloud storage, the Google Drive. Well, wait no more, the Google Drive is here. But, it’s much more than just that. It’s a nearly seamless integration of free and cheap storage with Google Docs. To install Google [...]

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Tags: Applications · Business · Cloud Computing · Desktop · Google · Infrastructure · Internet · Network · Office Software · Web Services