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"The director of the Linux Foundation has claimed that mobile telcos should give away free netbooks running Linux in order to boost revenues from subscription deals." - A.T. via Bookmarklet

"Enter a new technology called Ksplice. The Ksplice service called Uptrack will update the Linux kernel in your system while it is running without disrupting your operations or requiring a reboot." - imabonehead via Bookmarklet

"project Mer -- FEEL FREE TO JOIN" - A.T. via Bookmarklet

"Red Hat has launched a new partner program to make sure its enterprise Linux and JBoss software are core components of a cloud-computing infrastructure, and to guarantee that Red Hat-based applications will run reliably and safely in the cloud. Amazon Web Services, which already has a technology partnership to run RHEL as part of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offering, has signed on to become the first Red Hat Premier Cloud Provider Partner." - imabonehead via Bookmarklet

"This project consist in a portable image of Ubuntu that could run in Windows as a native win32 application. You could execute Linux applications and integrate it in your Windows desktop. This system can be bringing in any removable device such as pendrive" - Mike Chelen

good question, it seems they are working on upgrading their server: http://portableubuntu.demonccc... meanwhile ubuntu internal update system is probably the best solution - Mike Chelen

Corel's Sugar. Maybe. - Oguzcana

It has the very beginnings of X11 support, but definitely not enough for most folks. - Kevin Johnson

1680 bla bla ? - Barış GÜRENÇ

u mean resolution, right? - Paul

preferences->screen resolution or use grandr - DMKrow via AndFeed

If you're not already a Dropbox user, try it out. Use my referral code for an extra 250mb of space. https://www.getdropbox.com/referra... - Tommy Keene

Wow! You can get a whole history of your updates to a document with the new plugin. Now that's fancy! My dissertation thanks you, gnome do! - Tommy Keene

"AcetoneISO2, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO2 will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other things." - Tanath via Bookmarklet

Someone really should make a repository for this, or get it in the official repos. There's an Ubuntu bug about this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu... Edit: Looks like it's in the works. :) - Tanath

LG Flatron w1952s. 1440x900. Good. :P - Oguzcana

check out a.r. computers in sp road.. u get all dell n viewsonic monitors there at best price... - Koushik Narayanan

from the release announcement -- I want to announce to the list that tor-ramdisk 20090627 is out. Tor-ramdisk is an i686 uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security (hardnened binaries and kernel) and privacy (no logging at any level). Everything runs in RAM so no information survives a reboot except fot he Tor configuration file and RSA key which can be imported/exported via FTP. - Freemor

Figure I would try it as a virtual machine in virtual box, see how it runs first before I do a complete install it is always good to see new distributions come out and to be able to try them out to see if it is what is being looked for. Thanks for the Heads Up @Freemor it is appreciated. - Ubuntu101

"While Jolicloud's main goal is not to awe Linux geeks, the new distribution does offers a radically different take on a system for your netbook that might appeal to the non-technical user. Jolicloud has been in development for quite some time, and its developers managed to keep it under tight wraps, carefully dispensing invites to a few chosen users. Recently, yours truly found himself among the lucky ones. As an avid netbook user, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take Jolicloud for a spin. The currently available version of Jolicloud is labeled as Alpha 2, so obviously it's still a work in progress. But even in its current state, the distro gives a good impression of things to come. " - imabonehead via Bookmarklet

the article doesn't do it justice...you have to visit the website and explore. This is amazing. http://www.jolicloud.com/ - Mike VanLare (slayerboy)

I installed Chromium on my Fedora 11. It works! - imabonehead

"...Openfiler has been working with LINBIT, another open source software vendor that does block-level replication, to develop a cloud computing solution." - imabonehead via Bookmarklet

"With Oracle set to acquire Sun and gain stewardship over Java, there are many in the tech world with an opinion on how the database giant should handle its new relationship with the programming language. One of those opinions is being voiced by Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, who is calling on Oracle to keep Java open. During a conference call yesterday to discuss Red Hat's (NYSE: RHT) first-quarter fiscal 2010 results, Whitehurst also took aim at Oracle's operating system business." - imabonehead via Bookmarklet

Yeah, RH gets a lot of revenue from their JBoss subsidiary. Oracle could put a serious kink in that money pipeline. Thankfully, if they turn the screws too tight, some can now fork Java, though I think you'd have to have pretty deep pockets to pull that off. - Michael R. Bernstein

There's no need to fork Java again since there's openjdk. - imabonehead

"Software company Red Hat Inc (RHT.N) reported a 7 percent rise in quarterly profit onWednesday, bucking an industry trend of declining earnings, as margins widened under the scrutiny of its cost-conscious CEO....Profitability has been improving since last year when the world's biggest provider of Linux software tapped former Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL.N) executive James Whitehurst as its CEO. He has imposed tight cost controls, drawing on experience squeezing costs out of the struggling, low-margin carrier." - imabonehead via Bookmarklet

Same here. I use Ubuntu for my main workstations and Redhat/CentOS for production. - imabonehead

you can get it here: svn co http://svn.xiph.org/trunk... - Siavash

the dells - AhronZombi

I purchased a System76 laptop earlier this year that rocks. It does everything you are asking for and is supplied with Ubuntu. - Kory Wnuk

In the sense that when you are trying to auto mount another drive to be used for the home directory ... - Ubuntu101

I have done this with a shared /home The biggest problems are 1) Make sure that the 'format /home' option is not selected when installing distro 2, and 2) version incompatabilites of common programs having issues with dotfile differences. Nothing major, just things to watch out for :) - Andy Bold via email

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