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 25, 2012
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Once upon a time, GNOME, along with KDE, ruled the Linux desktop. Then, in 2010, GNOME’s designers decided to ignore their users’ wishes and introduced a radically new desktop interface: GNOME 3. Many users hated it. Not even two years … Continue reading
November 23, 2012
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James Bottomley, Parallels’ CTO of server virtualization, well-known Linux kernel maintainer, and the man behind the Linux Foundation’s efforts to create an easy way to install and boot Linux on Windows 8 PCs with UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure … Continue reading
November 20, 2012
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By design, Microsoft has made installing and booting Linux on Windows 8 PCs with UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot troublesome. Many of the major Linux distirbutors, including Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu, have proposed different ways of addressing this … Continue reading
November 18, 2012
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I decided to take a break from Windows 8. I thought if I took a breather and then came back to Microsoft’s newest operating system on a brand new PC, an ASUS CM6830 with a 3.4GHz Intel Core i7 processor, … Continue reading