Windows 7 first look: More than just “Vista fixed”
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- Windows 7 first look: More than just “Vista fixed”
- No thanks GoogleÃ’”we’ve got Ubuntu
- TITLE: Ubuntu update for kernel
- Is Linux Getting Bloated?
- pera: Apple Ubuntu Should Include Browser Ballot Screen Too
Windows 7 first look: More than just “Vista fixed”
ZDNet
The more important changes as far as productivity is concerned are those that improve usability. When I switch from Windows 7 to a PC running an earlier version of Windows (or for that matter running S X or Ubuntu) I miss some of the window management tricks that I?ve come to rely on including the ability to peek at thumbnails of open windows on the taskbar and to ?snap? windows into position with a flick of the mouse. ver several months of use I?ve really come to appreciate Jump Lists which are pop-up menus that can be summoned with a right-click on a taskbar icon (or more easily with a quick upward flick of the mouse. The default Jump List for a program allows you to see a list of recently used files and pin favorites to the menu. I fully expect that some Windows veterans will grumble over a few of the changes in Windows 7. In some cases those are just different approaches to design.
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No thanks GoogleÃ’”we’ve got Ubuntu
ZDNet Asia
au these days where you used to see Debian and Slackware die-hards you’ll see a massive wave of Linux laptops proudly sporting Ubuntu paraphernalia. I switched the Linux half of my home desktop PC to Ubuntu four years ago and my media center followed this year as I said goodbye finally to the venerable Windows XP. The growing dominance of Ubuntu (at least on the desktop the server room seems to have been won by Red Hat) has delivered the Linux community a serious advantage in its ongoing war against the incumbent Windows and Apple platforms because of its ability to give software developers a single platform to concentrate on and polish to a degree not seen previously. In this context Google’s decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive. Instead of treading its own path Google should have sought to leverage the stellar work already carried out by Shuttleworth and his band of merry coders and tied its horse to the Ubuntu cart. If Google truly wants to design a new “windowing system on top of a Linux kernel” there should be nothing to stop the search giant from collaborating openly with the best in the business.
TITLE: Ubuntu update for kernel
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For more information visit:. This fixes somevulnerabilities which can be exploited by malicious local users tocause a DoS (Denial of Service) or bypass certain securityrestrictions and by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial ofService) or potentially compromise a user’s system. For more information:SA35265SA35705SA35801SA35985SLUTIN:Apply updated packages. 06 LTS –Source archives:.
Is Linux Getting Bloated?
Datamation
So here’s one for you. How come Linux (or UNIX for that matter) doesn’t suffer from feature creep in the same way? r does it?When it comes to Linux distros there are plenty of super tiny ones like PuppyLinux and Damn Small Linux that will run on low-powered machines but some of the more popular distros with fancy GUIs actually consume vast amounts of resources. You can run a minimal Ubuntu installation with a command-line interface on a 486 machine with just 32Mb RAM and 300Mb disk space; Ubuntu server requires just 128MB RAM and 500MB of disk space but that’s still a vast amount of resources compared to the graphically rich Windows 95 which needed a humble 386DX and just 4MB of RAM to run along with about 50MB hard disk space. An installation CD? Didn’t need one! The whole Windows 95 S could be installed from 13 floppies. nce you enter the desktop realm Ubuntu’s Linux gets really rather portly: A full graphical Ubuntu Jaunty installation needs 5Gb of hard drive space and a recommended 512Mb RAM — not so different to Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 which also need 512Mb RAM although admittedly they consume a heftier 20Gb hard drive space. And it’s not just Ubuntu that’s got big. penSolaris is a penSUSE needs 500Mb disk space and a recommended 512Mb RAM while penSolaris needs 10Gb and 512Mb.
pera: Apple Ubuntu Should Include Browser Ballot Screen Too
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Lie believes that the browser ballot screen will improve competition among browsers (well among The Chosen nes on The List anyway) and that it will also lead to improved web standards compliance by Internet Explorer particularly SVG support. This seems like a rather roundabout way of achieving better standards compliance. I know of a much better way to achieve that and it doesn’t require browser nag screens or more of that nonsense: why doesn’t the EC force Microsoft to make IE more standards compliant instead of forcing them to offer a browser ballot screen? Sure that’s not what pera wants (they want a free ride) but in the end that’s what we all want right? You know “we” the consumers? Isn’t that what this is supposed to be about?Lie also believes it would be a good idea if Apple and Ubuntu were to offer a browser ballot box. “The Microsoft case is based on antitrust law something that only applies to monopolies. Apple and Ubuntu are not monopolies as per the legal definition of a monopoly” Lie writes “Still it may be a good idea to offer it; the browser is the most important tool for most of us and having access to better browsers is a good thing. I’ve got some free advice for pera.
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