Showing posts with label debian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label debian. Show all posts
27 January 2009

Wanted: the First GNU/Linux Distro for the Cloud

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As this amazing chart shows, there are basically three great families of GNU/Linux distros: those based on Red Hat, Slackware and Debian. Th...
20 November 2008

Stars of the Screen(shot)

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One of the wondrous things about free software is that there is so much of it. One of my favourite hobbies is using Synaptic to look at all...
07 October 2008

Aptly Astounded

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Even though it's years since I crawled out of the dark cave of proprietary software, I remain amazed at the unending stream of free apps...
25 June 2008

Eee PC + Debian = Ultraportable Heaven?

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I think the Asus Eee PC is a fab - and significant - machine, but have never really liked the Xandros distro it uses. Imagine how much bett...
16 May 2008

Doubting the Debian Doubters

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On Open Enterprise blog .
29 April 2008

Hello Hayeren OS

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One part of the world that has always fascianted me is Armenia. It's an ancient civilisation, but one that today finds itself in a pret...
26 March 2008

Eee PC SDK

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I don't normally blog about heavy developer issues, because that's not the focus here. But I think this news is important: Asus ha...
21 February 2008

The Inq Has the Dirt on the One

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More details on the Elonex £100 ultraportable: Elonex claims the whole caboodle is optimised for the Linux software it runs. The Linux is D...
09 January 2008

More Micro Mobile Computers

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I mentioned Everex's imminent Cloudbook a little while back, and now it's here : The CloudBook, model CE1200V, showcases the Linux ...
19 June 2007

Interview with Fedora's Max Spevack

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Following the recent launch of Fedora 7, I spoke to Max Spevack , Fedora Project Leader, about how Fedora and Red Hat work together, and w...
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19 March 2007

Murdock Joins Sun: Watch Out GNU/Linux

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I've noted in a number of places the impressive and continuing rise of Sun to become pretty much the leading defender of the GNU GPL fa...
06 March 2007

Second Life's Second Innards

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Talking of guts, here's a piece about Second Life's intestines. I've written about this in various places, but there are more ...
08 February 2007

The Other OSS Stack

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I've written before about the growing enterprise open source stack, which pieces together disparate software to form a complete enterpri...
05 February 2007

Open Hardware Licence

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Another Bruce Perens production : Many hardware designers wish to engage in collaborative development, just as Open Source programmers do to...
30 January 2007

Not Drowning but Waving

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Here's a clever idea, a Web site called goodbye-microsoft.com that doesn't just encourage you to install Debian alongside Windows o...
14 August 2006

Hewlett and Packard, Meet Deb and Ian

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Things are getting interesting on the enterprise distro front. The two front-runners, Red Hat and SuSE are being joined by a couple of newc...