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$400 Cloudbook won't dent eeePC's reign

The Everex Cloudbook is a new sub-notebook which will be sold by Walmart for $399. Despite its comparable configuration, it supposedly won’t pose a threat to the leader in the ultra-tiny laptop market, the Asus eeePC. The specs: Display: 7″ … Continue reading

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2GB partition on XPS M1710

While modifying my laptop’s hard drive I noticed there was a tiny partition present at the end my disk. I found the idea quite quaint, especially after Ubuntu’s installer returned an error message saying the FAT of this disk was … Continue reading

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Visual refresh for Ubuntu

del.icio.us Tags: ubuntu , linux (Citing from ArsTechnica.com) “Artists and developers participated in a desktop theming specification meeting at the Ubuntu Developer Summit earlier this week. During the meeting, participants made plans for the visual refresh of Hardy Heron, the … Continue reading

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Canonical's new Ubuntu

The past few releases of Ubuntu had become quite uninteresting, so this breath of fresh air is especially welcome. The standardization of the 3D desktop is a good thing because it’ll allow more exposure. If the plug-and-play functionality works as … Continue reading

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Canonical & Linspire join forces

Canonical, the leading sponsor of the most successful community-driven Linux distro ‘Ubuntu’ and Linspire (another key distro) have decided to work together. Upcoming Linspire releases will be based on Ubuntu, instead of Debian. Linspire will continue to mix open source … Continue reading

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Click-n-Run Linux

LinSpire/FreeSpire has announced they’ve developed an inter-distribution version of their CNR-technology, which should bring installing applications on Linux on par with Windows and the Mac. CNR is a website that syncs with the most popular Linux Distro’s (currently supported: Debian, … Continue reading

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