Linux: It’s Not Just for Servers Anymore
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- Linux: It’s Not Just for Servers Anymore
- Forget diamonds; give stone fruit
- A first look at Tracker 0.6.0
- Dell calls for better ATI Linux Drivers
Linux: It’s Not Just for Servers Anymore
Wired News – Jul 26, 2007
The current poster child for the new breed of consumer-friendly Linux, Ubuntu is famously easy to install. Most users can get it running without ever having to type text commands into a shell terminal, a rarity among Linux distributions. Other flavors of Linux, like Mandriva and Debian Etch, have also won accolades for their ease of installation. This “easy Linux” approach is winning fans…
Other flavors of Linux, like Mandriva and Debian Etch, have also won accolades for their ease of installation. This “easy Linux” approach is winning fans. Ubuntu in particular is installed on 6 million to 12 million computers worldwide in more than 220 countries. Canonical also hosts a technical support community site that has more than 13,000 registered users. Part of this growth can be chalked up to the trend of the LiveCD, a bootable disk image that users can download and burn to a CD to test the software. Most of the popular Linux makers release software on LiveCDs, and many also ship physical CDs to curious users anywhere in the world for free or for a nominal fee. But what if a user doesn’t know what to do with a downloadable disk image? In an effort to better serve the nontechnical crowd, Canonical is making the Ubuntu trial experience even more seamless.
Forget diamonds; give stone fruit
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 25, 2007
tmpl –> “I made it for Deanie’s family the first time I went over there to cook,” says Fox, who is busily composing menus for the vegetable-focused restaurant that will open in downtown Napa in mid-August. The produce for Ubuntu will come from the biodynamic garden at Lion’s Run Winery, also in Napa. So there he was, cooking for Deanie’s father, mother, grandparents and brothers and sisters at their home in Sunnyvale. No pressure, right? Fox created the recipe shortly after he and Deanie Hickox met in the kitchen of Rubicon in San Francisco. She was working in the pastry department; he was a new arrival from Atlanta. He still remembers the menu that day six years ago – squash blossoms stuffed with chard stems, a chicken galantine, boned and stuffed with green garlic, and the grilled peach panzanella.
A first look at Tracker 0.6.0
Ars Technica – Jul 26, 2007
I tested Tracker 0. 0 on my desktop computer, which runs Ubuntu 7. Tracker, which is designed to have a low impact on system resources, has a smaller memory foot print than Beagle, but occasionally hogs CPU.
Dell calls for better ATI Linux Drivers
Inquirer – Jul 25, 2007
Speaking at an event with the unlikely name of "Ubuntu Live 2007", Dell’s Amit Bhutani said that Linux ATI driversneeded to be improved. He said the result did not have to be Open Sauce but just a darn sight better than what was onoffer. Dell ships desktop Linux systems with Intel using its open-source drivers with Nvidia graphics. According to Phoronix, Bhutani said that the Nvidia 2D and 3D video drivers were a bit of a challenge but at least Dell couldget them to go eventually. He said that he knows that better drivers will not happen overnight.
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