Microsoft being smart again saw that Vista wasn’t being very accepted, decided to force people to have no other option. After July 1st, computers can no longer be sold with Windows XP (there are exceptions to the rules such as computer with low specs).
If you bought a computer today would you get it with Windows […]

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I have a 1GB mini SD card inside my cell phone that I barely use the space. So, I thought I’d add a Linux install inside it for those moments I have to use a computer at a cyber café (I’m cautious about security), or just do an emergency data recovery of a computer.
Puppy Linux […]

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For users who have already made the switch to Linux, first congratulations!!
Most likely you’re now familiar with something called GRUB, the bootloader that will manage your access to the different OSs you have installed. GRUB comes in when you have a dual-boot (or more) installation on your machine.
If you’re sticking with a simple dual-boot Linux […]

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Google’s Android, a mobile phone’s open source operating system is coming closer and closer to a reality for us. The most recent news shows a really spiffy phone with tons of features and excellently cool!
I haven’t really made that much of an effort to get an iPhone waiting for an Android phone to be released.
I […]

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This is the third of a sequence of posts where we’ll take a look at a few of the main Linux distros to find out which are the most welcoming to Linux newbies. In our first article of this series we took a look at Fedora 9 Beta, the second article we spoke about openSUSE, […]

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Red Hat’s sponsored Fedora 9 has just been released. This solid Linux distro is out with some pretty interesting features:

you can run Fedora 9 from a USB pen drive or external disk;
unlike Ubuntu, KD4 is integrated;
for Gnome distribution, version 2.22 was used;
there is an option for you to run it with ext4 for better performance;
and […]

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This is the third of a sequence of posts where we’ll take a look at a few of the main Linux distros to find out which are the most welcoming to Linux newbies. In our first article of this series, we took a look at Fedora 9 Beta, and the second article we spoke […]

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Over the weekend I updated my Ubuntu machine from 7.10 to the brand new 8.04 release. I waited a few days after the official release to see if I heard any reports of upgrade problems.
I searched and searched and really didn’t find that many written reports of people that had updated their machines, most prefered […]

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The ever so popular and handy Long Term support 8.04 versions of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu are out. The star of the show, Ubuntu has quite a nice set of new features, including:

A windows based Ubuntu installer, so you don’t have to go through creating and managing partitions;
New out-of-the-box programs such as Transmission (for BitTorrents), […]

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This is the second of a sequence of posts where we’ll take a look at a few of the main Linux distros to find out which are the most welcoming to Linux newbies. In our first article of this series, we took a look at Fedora 9 Beta.
We’ll do this test with the live (Gnome) […]

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