November 16, 2009
by sjvn01
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You want to know the funniest thing is about looking back at Corel Linux 1.0, which I used when it was released in 1999, and a typical modern desktop Linux — say, Ubuntu 9.10? How much hasn’t changed. It’s sort … Continue reading
November 13, 2009
by sjvn01
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Lenovo might not describe their return to the Linux desktop like that, but that’s what they’re doing. Yesterday, November 12th, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs gave the world a sneak peak at the Lenovo ARM Snapdragon-powered smartbook, a cross between a … Continue reading
November 12, 2009
by sjvn01
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I’m not going to review the latest release of openSUSE, 11.2, here. For that, you can look forward to reading my head-to-head shoot-out of Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.10, and openSUSE 11.2 sometime soon. What I can say now though is … Continue reading
November 12, 2009
by sjvn01
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I began using Linux as a desktop operating system around 1993, two years after Linux was created. Countless developers, engineers and hackers were doing the same. But at that point, it wasn’t what most people would recognize as a desktop … Continue reading
November 10, 2009
by sjvn01
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While I like the Linux desktop a lot, I don’t pretend that it’s that popular. That’s why I found it fascinating that, despite everything Microsoft has been able to throw at it, desktop Linux still managed to claim 32% of … Continue reading
November 6, 2009
by sjvn01
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Most of the time you can go for months, years, without patching your Linux distribution and not be in any real danger. A recently uncovered security hole in the Linux kernel does deserve your attention. Specifically, Earl Chew, a Linux … Continue reading