November 27, 2012
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Fedora 18, Red Hat‘s community Linux distribution, may have an odd name, “Spherical Cow,” but with the GNOME 2.x fork, MATE, it may also be the most user-friendly version in years. Fedora, a cutting-edge Linux distribution, has long been known … Continue reading
November 27, 2012
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The China Commercial Times (Chinese language link) reports that Google has placed hardware orders with Taiwanese manufacturers Compal Electronics and Wintek to produce a Chromebook with a 12.85-inch touch display. Could this be the start of Google merging Android and Chrome … Continue reading
November 12, 2012
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I use a Verizon Android smartphone, the Droid 4, but I’ve never used any of Verizon‘s built-in Android applications or gone to its app. store. It turns out I wasn’t the only one. By January 2013. Verizon won’t just be … Continue reading
November 5, 2012
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I’m 56. I’m not a grandfather — not yet anyway — but I’m old enough to be one. I first used the Internet in the ’70s. My first programming language was IBM 360 Assembler. My first operating system was the … Continue reading
October 19, 2012
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Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and its popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, announced in his blog that they’ll be working on some new features behind closed doors for the next release. Shuttleworth wrote, “”Mapping out the road to 13.04, there are … Continue reading
October 12, 2012
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Slashdot, the 15-year old popular technology discussion site, recently had their readers come up with a list of their top questions to ask Linus Torvalds, Linux’s creator. The results were interesting. For example, the first question presumed that Torvalds was … Continue reading