Tuesday, October 10, 2006

The ext4 filesystem has been released

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"Andrew Morton released a new -mm patch this morning, it includes, among other things, the new ext4 filesystem patch. The ext4 filesystem promises improved data integrity and performance, among with less limitations."

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Sunday, October 08, 2006

Is windows ready for the desktop?

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"Warning - Spoilers ahead:"All I can say, is, there are many nice features in XP which open source tools lack (especially the NVC's, buffer-overflows and spy and adware), but I'm not yet decided.""

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Saturday, October 07, 2006

Republicans: Linux UnAmerican?

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"At first I thought this was a joke, but these extreme right wing wakos really think Linux is UnAmerican. "This Linux problem is a growing issue, and one that conservative Americans cannot afford to ignore. Fortunately Microsoft have prepared a great deal of information to help computer users get away from this menace.""

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Friday, October 06, 2006

Seven Linux distros fight over one old ThinkPad

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"This interesting article compares the results of installing seven different 1-CD distributions on an IBM ThinkPad 2662-35U. It includes Freespire, Kubuntu, Linspire, Mandriva One, SimplyMEPIS, PCLinuxOS, Xandros."

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Thursday, October 05, 2006

Skype for Linux 1.3 official public release

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"After about a year of wait since last release, Skype released new version of its breakthrough product for Linux platform. ALSA support (don't laugh) and overall cleanup, contact list quick filter and many many more small visual and usability improvements make it a great update for Linux users."

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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

All In One USB PCLinuxOS MiniMe.zip

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"This site has done a simple remaster of PCLinuxOS MiniMe made specifically for USB flash memory sticks. Also included in the remastered zip is a custom one button syslinux installer that allows you to make the USB drive bootable via Windows XP through a simple one button menu."

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Sunday, October 01, 2006

The Ultimate Open Source Licence: Do What the F**k You Want To License

Title says it all.Now if only we could get Apple and Microsoft to Adopt this licence. LOL.By the way its the Third licence, Click it to read it. * Shared Source License for IronPython * Python Software Foundation License Version 2 * Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License * ElementTree License

You can read more about it here.