July 24, 2013
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Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and its parent company, Canonical, is making a bet with the technology market. He’s betting that enough of you will be willing to invest in a smartphone that can double as a PC, the Ubuntu Edge, … Continue reading
July 15, 2013
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Cheap, low-end PCs — such as the Raspberry Pi and Parallella — have become quite popular with do-it-yourself fans. Now, CompuLab, an Israeli computer OEM, is throwing its hat into the ring with its $99 Utilite mini-PC, which might also … Continue reading
July 11, 2013
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It’s no secret that the PC market is awful. With tablets on one side and Windows 8’s failure to gain market success on the other, worldwide PC sales have dropped more than 10-percent in the last quarter alone. According to … Continue reading
July 1, 2013
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Linux Mint is my favorite desktop Linux. Thanks to Microsoft’s Secure Boot implementation, however, installing Mint, or any other operating system, on a new Windows 8 PC is a royal pain in the rump. If you’d like to avoid this … Continue reading
June 24, 2013
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Take a second and think about end-user Linux. Now guess: Which is the most popular of all? If you’re a long time Linux user, chances are you guessed Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, or Fedora. You’d be wrong. The most popular end-user … Continue reading
June 5, 2013
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Ten years ago the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) started deregulating incumbent local exchange companies’ (ILECs’) broadband services. Shorn of jargon, that meant the telephone and cable companies were free to offer newer, faster Internet broadband services. The FCC expected this … Continue reading