Figures released by Raspberry Pi distributor Premier Farnell suggest that one million units of the credit-card-sized Linux computer have sold since it was launched, the Raspberry Pi Foundation said on Tuesday. Premier Farnell announced ...
IDG News Service-After a number of delays,the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released. The beta release date had been extended six times over the past two months,mostly due to an underestimation of the amount of ...
PC World-For all the media attention that goes to Ubuntu,Linux Mint,Fedora,and the other leading Linux distributions,casual observers would have to be forgiven if they have no idea that hundreds of other distributions are out there as ...
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Attempting to arrive at a solution to a complicated issue, the Linux Foundation has introduced a possible way that smaller Linux distributions can be run on machines using UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) technology. Linux ...
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IDG News Service - Boston Limited on Monday said it was manufacturing and distributing a low-power server with ARM-based chips, becoming one of the few companies to make such a server commercially available. The Viridis server has the ...
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PC World - This year has already been a notable one on many technological fronts, but certainly one of the more exciting ones among them is the Linux-powered revolution that's taking place in personal computing. Delivering significant ...
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PC World - There's been a marked jump in recent months in the number of options facing Linux fans interested in buying hardware with their favorite operating system preinstalled, but just recently one came out that seems particularly ...
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Windows 8's Secure Boot technology has been a hot topic this summer, causing no end of discussion and debate among the various Linux distributions, which are struggling to figure out the best approach for getting around it. Not long ago ...
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IDG News Service - Well, the Secure Boot saga keeps going on and on as Linux distributions far and wide decide how they're going to work around Windows 8's planned restrictions, and this week we heard from yet another project. It was SUSE ...
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Several big vendors including Red Hat, Oracle, Cloudera and Citrix have made announcements this week that show software support is on its way for 64-bit ARM hardware The companies all announced development plans for 64-bit ARM hardware. ...
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After a number of delays, the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released. The beta release date had been extended six times over the past two months, mostly due to an underestimation of the amount of work required to ...
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Microsoft's"Secure Boot"plans for Windows 8 have already caused no end of controversy in the Linux community,and certainly one of the more divisive announcements in recent months was Canonical's decision to drop the GRUB 2 bootloader as ...
Tags: Ubuntu Linux, Microsoft, Windows 8, Secure Boot, FSF
PC World-With so many Linux distributions out there,it can be difficult to keep tabs on all the updates that come out over the course of an average week or month. I've featured a few key arrivals over the past few months--including ...
Tags: Three Linux Distros Get Key Updates, Linux distributions, systems
Interest in Michael Jackson's career and related memorabilia has continued to grow in the three years since his tragic death. Michael Jackson's trademark military-style jacket will be one of the highlights, of almost 40 lots related to ...
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The Applied Micro X-Gene Server on a Chip that is compliant with the ARMv8 architecture ARM, Red Hat and Applied Micro Circuits (AMCC) have partnered to develop a 64-bit server design platform to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) ...
Tags: Applied Micro X-Gene Server, ARMv8 architecture, AMCC, ARM, Red Hat