LXer Weekly Roundup for 17-Oct-2010

LXer Article In the Roundup this week we have news of IBM deciding to back Oracle’s OpenJDK instead of Harmony, Phoronix releases the 2010 Linux graphics survey results, 5 mistakes Linux newcomers make and lastly John E. Dunn gets the crazy idea to ditch Windows for Ubuntu. Enjoy! IBM backs Oracle against Apache and Google’s [...]

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LXer Weekly Roundup for 11-Apr-2010

LXer Article This week we have Jim Zemlin and SJVN weighing in on IBM’s supposed breaking of their own pledge to open source many of their patents. Are HP and Dell giving up on netbooks? What will come after Linux? Jack Wallen sees the future, a review of Tiny Me and much more in this [...]

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LXer Weekly Roundup for 27-Sept-2009

LXer Article eyeOS: Your Own Private Linux Cloud that You Control (part 1): Cloud computing is a relativity new computing concept where resources are provided via the Internet instead of on the local computer or network. It’s virtualization over the Internet. Eric Geier introduces eyeOS, the do-it-yourself cloud that keeps control in your hands. Why [...]

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LXer Weekly Roundup for 13-Sept-2009

LXer Article Linux Course: Understanding the GRUB Bootloader: This course provides a basic understanding of GRUB and gives you some illustrations on how to secure it and fix several common problems. GRUB stands for Grand Unified Bootloader and was created in 1995 by Erich Boleyn as he wanted to have a multiboot option. Intel based [...]

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LXer Weekly Roundup for 30-Aug-2009

LXer Article Fullscreen flash video in GNU/Linux: “First, if you are unfamiliar with the problem, go to YouTube, pick any video, and double-click on the video, or click on the little fullscreen icon, and you’ll see that the video begins to get really slow, and choppy, from dropping frames.” Audacious 2.1 Review – Powerful Audio [...]

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