Windows Vista debuted to muffled applause, followed by lackluster sales. Up until June 30, cash-strapped businesses looking to avoid the cost of upgrading to new Vista-compatible hardware could still purchase trusty Windows XP. Now, however, Windows XP is available only as a costly “downgrade” from Windows Vista–if you buy a copy of Vista, you can [...]
This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Commentary: Linux in the first half or 2008
Debian GNU/Linux - the new “Number One” distribution
News: Gentoo Linux 2008.0, Ubuntu in Assemblée nationale, Xandros acquires Linspire, alpha PC-BSD 7 with KDE 4.1, OpenBSD 4.4 beta tagged, Ikki Boot live CD
Released last week: Gentoo Linux 2008.0, Sabayon Linux 3.5
Upcoming releases: openSUSE 11.1 roadmap
Donations: [...]
This small guide will show you how to use VMware Server on your Ubuntu 8.04 installation, in case you encountered some issues. This will also work for VMware Workstation 6.5 beta.
1. Download VMware Server 1.0 to your home folder
2. Download the patch file vmware-any-any-update-117.tgz to your home folder.
3. Extract the Vmware-server-1.0.6-xxxxxx.tar.gz to your home folder [...]
The Ubuntu development team has released the first version of its Mobile Internet Device (MID) operating system as a developer’s release. Ubuntu 8.04 MID is based on the Ubuntu desktop edition but is built by the Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded community. The MID release is targeted at mobile handsets with limited screen real estate and, [...]
The K Desktop Environment, or KDE, is best known as a user interface and software suite for Linux. But for the past few months a team of developers has been hard at work porting KDE applications to Windows.
A few weeks ago, the developers of KOffice, an open source suit of office applications released KOffice 2.0 [...]
According to Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation:
“Never before in the history of computing have there been so many companies, users and developers united behind one project, specifically one that has seen so much commercial success.”
Some facts:
• Who is Writing Linux?
Every Linux kernel is being developed by nearly 1,000 developers working for more than [...]
With openSUSE 11.0 out the door, it’s time to start thinking about openSUSE 11.1. The public release of openSUSE 11.1 is scheduled for December 18, 2008, six months after the release of openSUSE 11.0.
The full schedule for the release cycle is as follows:
Thu, Jul 24: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1
Thu, Aug 21: [...]
Xandros, Inc., the leading provider of custom OEM Linux solutions, next-generation Linux desktop and server products, and advanced cross-platform Windows-Linux management tools, today announced the acquisition of Linspire, developer of the CNR software distribution facility, and the Linspire and Freespire Linux desktop operating systems. The combination of the technologies, expertise, and market presence of the [...]
In the last few days I managed to install openSUSE 11.0 on more than 6 desktops, helping my friends on setting up the distribution, and on one of them I encountered a strange problem, running KDE 4.0. The problem occurred with the Audigy 2 ZS card, same as the one I have. From forums I [...]
I found a neat feature in OpenSuSE 11.0 which allows a user to use the one-click install from command line. This is really neat because this means you can now script your installations during network installations of OpenSuSE.
Below are a few examples I found here:
Here are a bunch of softwares you can install via 1-click [...]
“This is a very strong OpenSUSE release with a lot of compelling improvements. OpenSUSE 11 offers the best KDE 4 experience out there and will continue to be our reference distribution for KDE testing. OpenSUSE 11 is also an increasingly solid choice for GNOME users …”
First look: OpenSUSE 11 out, offers best KDE 4 experience
openSUSE [...]
Support for some multimedia formats cannot be included on the openSUSE CDs because they’re proprietary, patented, Restricted Formats. Some of these include MP3, MPEG-4, playing of Encrypted DVDs, etc.
Get the Restricted Format 1-click installer (just click the following links if you are running openSUSE):
For KDE Users
For GNOME users
VLC player - Click Here
This will enable you [...]
“OpenSUSE is powerful, and improvements in usability, performance and stability should attract and win back users from other Linux distributions.”
“OpenSUSE has always been an odd sort of Linux distribution. It’s always been reasonably user friendly, very stable, and quite nicely pulled off the not-so-easy task of being good for new users while offering advanced and [...]
Another one of those days that I look forward to …. yes, openSUSE 11.0 has been officially released.
“Looking at the list of Top500 supercomputers, we find that 20 of the top 50 run SUSE Linux. This ratio extends to the entire Top500 – around 40% run SUSE.”
If you have never heard of this distro, as [...]
Mozilla Mac developer Josh Aas has written a weblog post discussing some of the under-the-hood improvements specific to the Mac OS X version of Mozilla Firefox 3.
Josh describes how Firefox 3 has largely switched from Apple’s legacy Carbon API (initially created to make it easier for developers to migrate OS 9 applications to OS X) [...]
With openSUSE 11.0 the installation of ATI and nVidia video cards drivers is just 1-click away, no manual configuration of xorg.conf is required. Same is true for switching on Xgl, if you are using ATI card and prefer it over AIGLX, to get Compiz running, just launch simple-ccsm and enable compiz, once the driver is [...]
When it comes to package management, openSUSE had some trouble in the past, but with 11.0 on the horison, get ready for the ultimate flexibility, speed and ease of management. Now you have the following options, when it comes to installing packages:
Using YAST
Using zypper
Using the rpm command
Using 1-Click Install
Install with YAST from custom installation repository
Install [...]
As after being announced on March 11, 2008, official openSUSE forums has been established and is now online, providing better support for openSUSE community from June 09, 2008.
Forums merges 3 existing openSUSE forums (I am registered on all 3 of them):
suseforums.net - “You will find read only archived threads and posts from this forum, [...]
Remade version based on popular BBC advertisment
ASUS recently introduced Express Gate technology, and the first on-board Energy Processing Unit for those who care about the environment and want instant access to their PCs. As we all know by now, all the latest Asus P5Q series motherboards based on latest Intel P45 chipset, will feature Express Gate Linux version, which previously was [...]
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has hinted at the likelihood of an ultra-portable netbook pre-loaded with Ubuntu Remix in the very near future. Ubuntu Remix is the lightweight version of Ubuntu that Canonical announced last week.
Writing on his blog Shuttleworth says that “the Canonical OEM team has been approached by a number of OEMs who want [...]
Here are few early videos on Ubuntu Netbook Remix OS for ultra or mini portables/notebooks.
Looking good, but not very MIDs compliant. I guess this OS will after all suit more the mini notebooks.
Worked for me on a Compaq Presario with a 5007 in 64 bit Hardy. I needed to add... dai_vernon | July 8, 2008 | More >>
I have a advent t2370 bought from pc world who no longer sell xp machines... David Murphy | July 8, 2008 | More >>
This would be much nicer if compiled with sunstudio cc, so you could... Brian Szymanski | July 8, 2008 | More >>
i need help, it didn’t work, i have an ati radeon x1300/1500, 256 mb of... Steven | July 7, 2008 | More >>
Thank you very much. This was a great help. grot | July 7, 2008 | More >>
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