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Sep 20th, 2008 |
By Cath |
Category: Cath
The Stuff Gadget Awards was held on wednesday night in London at the Dorchester Hotel, and the big winner of the night was Asus winning the gadget of the year award for the Eee PC 901.
This great little laptop has helped to kick off the netbook craze and has offered a really affordable way to [...]
Tags: Asus Eee PC, linux, News
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Sep 15th, 2008 |
By Cath |
Category: Cath, News
I was reading desktoplinux.com and found this interesting article:
Lenovo, which years ago purchased IBMs personal computer business, appears to have quietly stopped offering Linux as a pre-installation option. None of the company’s 49 ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebook models — nor its many ThinkCenter and IdeaCenter desktops — can currently be ordered with Linux.
Lenovo does offer [...]
Tags: linux, News
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Aug 30th, 2008 |
By Cath |
Category: Blog, Cath
I recently wrote about Elonex laptops preloaded with Linux being made available at the Carphone Warehouse. They are in such high demand that thieves stole a shop display model, but ignored the larger laptops sitting nearby which were preloaded with Microsoft Vista.
This was obviously a planned robbery as they used bolt cutters to steal the [...]
Tags: Elonex, linux
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Jul 12th, 2008 |
By Cath |
Category: Blog, Cath, Education, Software
PC World has this week published an article encouraging small businesses to shift from Windows Vista to Linux:
Since Windows XP remains available only as a “downgrade” from Vista, at additional cost, businesses that want to replace obsolescent PCs or need to add staff are compelled to buy Windows Vista and then pay extra if they [...]
Tags: linux, Vista
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Jun 26th, 2008 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris, Software
The Origins of Linux - Linus Torvalds
Tags: linus torvalds, linux
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Jun 18th, 2008 |
By Chris |
Category: Humour, Software, Video
Mac, Pc, & Linux Commercial.
Tags: funny, linux, Video
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Jan 16th, 2007 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris, Software
From Builder AU:
“One of the issues I have is that the most important thing is good technology. It’s not about being commercial or non-commercial, open source or closed source. To me, the reason I do open source is, it is fun.
That is the most basic thing. “I also happen to believe that it is [...]
Tags: linus torvalds, linux, linuxconf
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Oct 26th, 2006 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris, Software
The City of Chicago’s announced successful migration to Red Hat Enterprise Linux for essential government programs including the vehicle registration system online job applications restaurant inspections ethics training and more. The City of Chicago migrated to Red Hat in order to reduce costs and improve support performance and scalability.
Read more on Digg
Tags: linux, study
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Sep 23rd, 2006 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris, Education, Software
Initial source was digg.com
Linux Spreads Its Wings In India
With 4,000 students and just 21 computers, the Cotton Hill Girls High School in the south Indian city of Trivandrum wouldn’t appear to be at the vanguard of anything related to information technology. Yet the 71-year-old school is abandoning Microsoft Windows software in favor of its free, [...]
Tags: Education, india, linux
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Aug 27th, 2006 |
By Chris |
Category: Blog, Chris, Software, Video
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Tags: ibm, linux, open child
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