Earlier this week, I mentioned the rumor that Dell was going to ship Ubuntu pre-installed on several lines of its personal computer segment. Well, Dell announced on its Direct2Dell weblog that they have reached an agreement with Canonical to ship Ubuntu 7.04. The computers will be available for consumer purchase in a few […]
A few weeks ago, we covered Dell’s decision to sell computers preloaded with Linux directly to consumers. Dell came to this decision after allowing their customers to submit requests for new products. An overwhelming majority of consumers requesting preloaded Linux was enough to push Dell over the edge. Dell has been taking […]
The free (closed source) VMWare Server can be installed in a few short steps. Howtoforge does an excellent job of demonstrating how to install the application from the command line. We’ve covered virtualizing Linux on other operating systems several times before. However, this is the opposite — virtualizing other OSes in Linux. […]
Eweek has a flash presentation that visually represents the history of many of the most important open-source applications. The presentation covers a bit of history on the following applications: Nessus, Firefox, Perl, PHP, Apache, the kernel, Wireshark, VNC, BSD, Webmin, Asterisk, Nmap, OpenOffice.org, MySql, Nagios, Eclipse, Samba, OpenSSH and OpenSSL. The slide show […]
If you’ve updated to Ubuntu 7.04 you’ve likely noticed that you have the option of turning desktop effects on. Unfortunately, this leaves some users (myself included) with a plain white screen. The worst case scenario is if you do nothing and Ubuntu saves your settings and you’re never able to get back to […]
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