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Microsoft Contractor turned full-time Ubuntu Linux user

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Thu, 12/04/2008 - 00:39

There are a lot of techie reviews of Linux distributions out there. Techies are the ones that usually read, write, (and flame) these reviews.

This is a great success story of a Windows user's Linux experience. Hopefully this will have a little more weight than just me preaching to the choir.


 

A Visual Desktop Tour of 10 Fedora Releases

Topix - Linux  Wed, 12/03/2008 - 21:34

December 04, 2008 - 1 hour, 34 minutes ago Share Comments Fedora is without doubt one of the most prolific Linux distributions around.


 

Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System

Linux Today  Wed, 12/03/2008 - 11:33

Phoronix: "With the EXT4 file-system being marked as stable in the forthcoming Linux 2.6.28 kernel, and some Linux distributions potentially switching to it as an interim step until the btrfs file-system is ready, we decided it was time to benchmark this journaled file-system for ourselves"


 

Something Out There Found to Run Crysis! Linux!

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Tue, 12/02/2008 - 15:59

it's actually possible to run Crysis on Linux? --Yes, there's a way to install and run the game in Linux, and all you need is Wine.

In fact, Crysis has been known to run on some major Linux distributions like Fedora, Gentoo, and Ubuntu with only minor issues.


 

customize your ubuntu desktop using gconf-editor

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Tue, 12/02/2008 - 13:40

I think you would have heard about the customization power of linux distributions.Now let us see the customization power of ubuntu and similar distributions with GNOME desktop.For these tweaks no coding is necessary,you just have to know how to use your keyboard and mouse.If there is 1 place for all your customization needs then its gconf-editor


 

Glendix: Bringing the Beauty of Plan 9 to Linux

Topix - Linux  Tue, 12/02/2008 - 05:28

December 02, 2008 - 1 hour, 28 minutes ago Share Comments Linux distributions come and go by the dozens almost every day, and most of them live and die an unknown, irrelevant life, mostly because no, changing ...


 

Linux Foundation Certifies All "Major" Distros as IPv6 Compliant

Linux Today  Sun, 11/30/2008 - 18:04

OStatic: "The Linux Foundation announced this week that all "major" Linux distributions are now in compliance with the federal mandate by U.S.

Department of Defense (DOD) that helps ensure the world won't run out of Internet addresses anytime soon."


 

#!CrunchBang Linux: Flash! Bang! Wallop! What A Distro!

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sun, 11/30/2008 - 09:09

IT'S easy to ignore the tide of Linux distributions based on Ubuntu - there are just so many of them and you wonder what yet another could possibly be offering that is not already offered elsewhere.


 

Linux Foundation Says All Major Distros Are IPv6 Compliant

Slashdot: Linux  Sun, 11/30/2008 - 08:35

ruphus13 points out news from the Linux Foundation, which announced that all major Linux distributions meet certification requirements for the US Department of Defense's IPv6 mandates.

The announcement credits work done by the IPv6 Workgroup, whose members include IBM, HP, Nokia-Siemens, Novell and Red Hat.

Quoting: "Linux has had relatively robust IPv6 support since 2005, but further work was needed for the open source platform to achieve full compliance with DoD standards.


 

A Visual Desktop Tour of 10 Fedora Releases

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sat, 11/29/2008 - 14:34

Fedora is without doubt one of the most prolific Linux distributions around. In the span of only 5 years, the Fedora Project has already unleashed 10 major versions of Fedora.

Let's take a trip down memory lane and have a visual desktop tour of this wonderful distro starting from its inaugural version until its most recent version.