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Benefits of Linux compared to other operating systems.
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Mono developer uses f-word to abuse RMS
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[quote] The most recent recruit to link hands with De Icaza and Mono advocate Jo Shields is an Indian student, Anirudh Sanjeev, who has proudly advertised his admission to these ranks by insulting Free Software Foundation chief Richard Stallman in the foulest of terms. Stallman posted a short piece titled "Why free software shouldn't depend... more »
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Obama Crackdown on AstroTurfers
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[quote] June 22, 2009 5:40 AM PDT Report: FTC to go after blogger freebies by Caroline McCarthy The Federal Trade Commission is planning to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products while earning freebies or payments, the Associated Press reported Sunday. This would, for the first time, bring bloggers under FTC... more »
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Ubuntu: brought to you by Microsoft
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...or at least so says Dell on their website. This neat little netbook apparently comes with a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space, and the, er, well-known Microsoft operating system Ubuntu 8.04. [link]
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Linux Notebooks live
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<Quote> Last year I bought my older boy an Asus 900 with Xandros as a graduation present. I couldn't get it away from him. He loved it and the machine was perfect for surfing the internet and light homework. This year, for my younger son who just graduated, I ordered a Dell Inspirion netbook with Ubuntu. A fantastic package loaded with free... more »
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Fedora: my new distro of choice
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Last night I installed Fedora 10 on my old Dell Optiplex GX240 (2002) It has 384 MiB PC100 RAM, a Intel Pentium 4 1,70 Ghz CPU, a hardware hacked (otherwise it would not fit into this desktop model) Nvidia Geoforce 2 MX/400 GPU with 64 MiB VRAM. A tiny IDE harddisk drive (40 GiB) and a CDRW.Ethernet and AC'97 Sound is onboard.... more »
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Microsoft: Get the Facts
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<Quote> As part of its strategy to win more trading business and new customers, the London Stock Exchange needed a scalable, reliable, high- performance stock exchange ticker plant to replace its earlier system. Roughly 40 per cent of the Exchange’s revenues are generated by the sale of real-time information about stock prices. Using the... more »
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Bing: Not Really Gaining on Google
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<Quote> Microsoft's new search engine has made some gains, but not nearly as dramatic as the buzz might indicate, PC World reports, citing new research... While Bing has, according to certain data, minimally increased Microsoft's search market share, Google's position has not significantly shifted. All the buzz comes from a new search market analysis by Web stats... more »
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Linux better than windopws when transplanting
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Linux better than windopws when transplanting ------------------------------ --------------- I got me a 7200 RPM pocket drive and installed Ubuntu 9.04 and transplated it from machine to machine booting and copying stuff back and forth between machines. The 7200 Linux pocket drive was better for the laptops because they all came... more »
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Linux boot better than windopws
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Linux boot better than windopws ------------------------------ - "Everybody switch on and go back into their computers now please" <beep!> <boop!> <bleep bleep!> as about 20 computers go on. I started a little late but I got my login screen. Others had beaten me to the login screen by one or two seconds.... more »
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