Further expanding from its core mission of providing Linux distributions for desktop computers and servers, Canonical is developing a version of Ubuntu for smartphones. The company plans to market the OS to smartphone handset ...
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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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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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Ubuntu Linux may be all over the news recently, but anyone who's ever perused DistroWatch has a pretty good sense of just how many other Linux distributions are out there as well, ready to be tried at will. Next month, however, that list ...
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PC World - Fans of Linux may recall the "31 Flavors of Fun" project I wrote about last month through which ambitious developer Todd Robinson planned to "create, and release, a complete desktop operating system each and every day for the ...
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Infoworld - Hewlett-Packard may be best known for its ubiquitous printers and laptops, but in the enterprise world, it is just as recognized for its servers. Now that the idea of the cloud is taking over, HP is joining the marketplace and ...
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PC World - It's been a busy few months lately in the world of Linux distributions, and August appears to be no exception. Hard on the heels of the 19 new distros I wrote about the other day resulting from this month's "31 Flavors of Fun" ...
Tags: PCLinuxOS, "31 Flavors of Fun"project, Bodhi Linux, Damn Small Linux
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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Expanding its portfolio of cloud computing services, Google is launching an IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) package, called Google Compute Engine (GCE). "We've heard from many of our customers that not having an IaaS was a barrier to ...
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Early prototype 64-bit ARM servers could be available for testing purposes by the end of this year or possibly at the latest by the middle of next year, ARM said on Monday. ARM will try to make inexpensive 64-bit server hardware available ...
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There's no denying 2012 has been a fruitful year for Linux distributions in general, but something about it has also seemed to favor the rebirth of distros we hadn't heard from in years. Two cases in point: Back in August we saw the ...
Tags: Slax Linux, Computer Products, Version 7.0
Graphics chip maker Nvidia released a new version of its Unix driver on Friday in order to address a high-risk vulnerability that can be exploited by local users to gain root privileges on Linux systems. The privilege escalation ...
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Microsoft's most significant update to Windows Azure takes the cloud platform to a different level. Rather than focus on Windows applications and bridging the gap between in-house and cloud-based IT, Microsoft is now offering Azure as ...
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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