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How to Install Firefox 7 in Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 1, 2011 12:41 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
The following tutorial will teach every Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS user how to install the current stable version of the popular Mozilla Firefox 7 web browser.

Seven-inch tablet targets point-of-sale applications

X2 Computing announced a seven-inch tablet that runs Linux or various Windows flavors on a 1.6GHz Atom Z530 processor. The ruggedized X2372 has up to 2GB of RAM and 64GB of SSD (solid state disk) storage, a resistive touchscreen with 1024 x 600 pixels, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, plus options including an encrypted PIN pad and a three-track MSR (magnetic stripe reader), the company says....

GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.10 - First Impressions

GNOME Shell and Unity are the two new approaches towards creating the ultimate desktop experience by GNOME Foundation and Canonical respectively. Both approaches stirred up fair amount of controversies, with personalities like Linus Torvalds going so far as to call GNOME Shell an unholy mess. But things aren't that bad, or are they? Let's find out.

Let's Play: Pro Evolution Soccer 2011

It's time for a new performance comparison... It's time for (perhaps) the most addictive soccer game in history... Ladies and Gentlemen.. Pro Evolution Soccer 2011!!!!

5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 9/30/11

This week we look at identifying passionate developers, explore cloud paranoia and speculate on life after the silicon computer chip.

The Lurching Landscape of Mobile

Anyone paying attention to technology news lately knows that the Titans are clashing for control, or at least a share of the monetary rewards, in the mobile marketplace.

Windows 8: one step forward, two steps back

  • MyBroadband; By Andrew Craucamp (Posted by rpm007 on Sep 30, 2011 6:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Microsoft
Windows 8 has learned a lot of cool things from a number of other operating systems but is Microsoft moving backwards where it counts?

New ATI Video Driver Fixes GNOME 3 Issues

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 30, 2011 5:20 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
AMD announced two days ago, September 28th, the immediate availability for download of the ADM Catalyst 11.9 video driver for Linux platforms.

Dutch go for mandatory use open standards in education

Online educational solutions based on Silverlight prevent 5 to 10% of Dutch students to get their schoolwork done and forces them to buy and install Windows instead. No longer they say.

WattOS: Is It Faster & Can Save Power Over Ubuntu?

For some months I've been meaning to try out WattOS, an Ubuntu derivative that claims to do more than providing simple desktop theme changes and other high-level customizations. It seeks to provide a simple and fast desktop that's also said to conserve more power and run better on older hardware, but is this actually the case? Here are benchmarks of WattOS R4 compared to the upstream Ubuntu 11.04 release from which it's derived, and the numbers are quite revealing.

Playing To Our Strengths

Are Linux Users Shooting Themselves In The Foot? In April of 2009, my Windows XP computer crashed for the umpteenth time and this time around I lost a lot of valuable data. I was so angry because I didn't even have a cd copy to reinstall my OS. Neither did I have the cash to shell out for a new cd so I did what most broke people do in my situation, use (don't tell anyone) a bootleg cd of TinyXP. Even though I hated going this route and I never feel confident about their security, I felt it was a necessary evil that got me to the point I am now.

How To Install Repcached (Memcached Replication) For High-Availability Over 2 Nodes On Ubuntu 11.04

This how to will show you how to install and build memcached with replication, create a startup script and configure PHP to use memcache for sessions rather than storing them as files. This tutorial assumes you have set up 2 servers to replicate the information over.

Linux Licensing in Conflict with Secure Boot Support

"..it appears GRUB has to be ditched in favor of something under a more permissive license such as the BSD license. Interestingly, an old boot loader for Linux called LiLo (literally meaning “Linux Loader”) has just resumed development last year, and it is licensed under the BSD."

Microsoft woos open-sourcers to float Hyper-V clouds

Microsoft is working with an Apache-licensed open-source project to make Hyper-V and Windows Servers an integral part of cloud-computing infrastructure. The software giant is providing support and technical guidance to OpenNebula to put Hyper-V on a list of hypervisors that the project officially supports.

Mechanical Engineering Useful Software in Linux

  • Linux Made Easy; By Ricardo Perry (Posted by pirolocito on Sep 30, 2011 7:39 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
So, as usual, I've no wrote in this space for a long time, but today, as my daughter sleeps like a baby (10 months :P), I've got the time for some writings.. So since my last post, I've acquired a new 13" laptop to replace the good old asus eee 701, I needed a small, fast and good pc for some of my engineering work.

Top 10 Reasons ISPs Are Against Net Neutrality

You might’ve read the news that net neutrality rules are set to become law on November 20th. Of course, how “neutral” the net becomes depends on whether you’re connecting the old fashioned way, by a wire running into your house, or through the gee whiz magic of wireless service. The wireless providers get a break because evidently they aren’t charging enough already or something.

Nokia preps Linux-based Meltemi OS for feature phones, says report

Nokia is developing a new Linux-based & Meltemi& operating systems to replace Symbian on its feature phones, according to the Wall Street Journal. Meanwhile, more details have emerged on the Linux Foundation's MeeGo-derived Tizen project, which also gained a bit of industry support beyond co-sponsors Intel and Samsung.

Minecraft 1.9 pre release part 2 is out

Minecraft 1.9 pre release part 2 is out. The 1.9 release is really shaping up to be something awesome, new monsters, new graphical effects (note to self buy better notebook since the mrs is hogging the pc...I hope she doesn't read that bit!) and much much more!

Study Finds Freemium Model Generates Big App Store Income

  • Ness SPL Blog; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on Sep 30, 2011 3:50 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
A study by Distimo, an analysis firm that watches the AppStore market found that a strategy of providing free or low-cost apps, then charging for fuller functionality accounted for significant income for developers -- and developers may want to pay attention to that.

About the Kernel 3.0 "Power Regression" Myth

  • ~/Blog; By Fewt (Posted by fewt on Sep 30, 2011 2:18 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Community
Oh boy, here we go again. Phoronix has yet another article proclaiming that the Linux Kernel has a "power regression" again. Those Kernel developer losers aren't doing ANYTHING about it either! Oh the HUMANITY!

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