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Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast Marsupial

I'm having issues with VirtualBox . . .I'm having issues with VirtualBox: Even though it worked before, lately it's claiming that "VT-X/AMD-V hardware acceleration has been enabled, but is not operational" and not allowing me to run 64 bit Ubuntu :(.RE: Karmic Koala: That's One Seriously Fast MarsupialI had some...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Win 7, Ext4, Karmic Koala

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

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Firefox 3.5 (Gallery: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala)

Re: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic KoalaSome nice and welcomed touches but not enough on their own to get people to switch. - Especially me!I left the Ubuntu Family when upgrading to the next version failed on ALL levels! The biggest disaster was changing the repositories to point at the new version....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Web browsers, OPEN SOURCE, Mozilla Firefox, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

Ubuntu 9.10 launch - 29 October

If it's ...... easier than Win7 to install, they will have a winner!^o^Yawn, another boring launch of another boring linux distro. No excitement, people aren't enthused. There is nothing new here. As I said...BORING.Well 9.04 was not diffcult to install Not sure what you are going for here 9.04 was...

Tags: Linux, Media Center PCs, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, KDE 4 Desktop, Win7, Ubuntu, HDCP, Microsoft Windows 7, hardware, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Mac ZFS is dead: RIP.

fortunatelywhile zfs is cool, there are enough other file systems, so we users won't miss it muchHow about EXT4 and BTRFS?What do you think of EXT4 and it's destined successor, BTRFS?NTFSActualy has similar features to most of these but maybe its not implemented as well.Apple picks NetApp WAFL over...

Tags: Storage, Mac ZFS, Actualy, Robin, Apple Macintosh, NetApp Inc., ZFS, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

openSUSE 11.2 M8: What a Fine Lookin' Lizard

Ubuntu's Karmic Koala isn't the only hot Linux beta floating around. On October 1, the openSUSE project released Milestone 8 of openSUSE 11.2, which is slated for general release in November, just in time for the holiday season. Milestone 8 will precede two release candidates to be also released...

Tags: Ubuntu, GNOME, KDE, Object-oriented, KDE 4.3, openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-10-04

VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee

Sounds bad... How about Red Hat's new stuff?A nasty experience... Have a glass of fine cognac to recover. No ice (the horror!), no mixing barbaric, at the perfect temperature of 18 degrees Celsius. Cheers. :-)How about Red Hat's new virtualization stuff in RHEL 5.4? Is that a better alternative?http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=1234Salut, Pjotr.RE:...

Tags: Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, UNIX, Operating systems, KVM, VMFS-3, vSphere, VMware Inc., RHEL 5.4, Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Is lower power consumption Windows 7's killer feature?

what killer feature?I don't know about OSX but Linux is more energy efficient than windoze.FYIsold by M$ under the namne of 'Windows' something.What is this "Windoze" you speak of?Never heard about it before....Anyway, can Linux run my programs? (Office, Photoshop, the latest games, Windows Live Essentials?) No? Oh.... Thats some...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, killer feature

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Report: Netbooks now one-fifth of portable PC shipments

The point of netbooksis that they are cheap, portable second computers. More expensive portable computers may sell and they may sell well, but they are not competing with the same market. Customers would only want to drop more money for a portable computer if it were going to be their...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, netbook, computer

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Microsoft makes standalone Hyper-V R2 server available for download

FREE VIRTUALIZATION IS SO GREAT.This R2 release is awesome and such great news for everyone except VMWare. HyperV has taken virtualization to the next level in terms of performance. With this and the rounding out of the feature set the greener era of mass virtualization should now explode.And...

Tags: cloud computing, Utility computing, Storage management, HyperV, virtualization, server, Hyper-V R2 server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V

Discussion threads 2009-08-29

Apple kicks ZFS in the butt

CuriousWhat features does ZFS sport that NTFS does not? Which of those are important to data integrity?Reading the IRON File Systems I couldn't help notice that NTFS fared quite well. Do you have any data to suggest that ZFS would fare better than these other file systems?The file systems from...

Tags: Snow Leopard, ZFS, Apple Inc., file system

Discussion threads 2009-08-29

Invisible Linux

Invisible LinuxLinux on the mobile "desktop"Many/most of the major smartphone/mobile OSes are based on Linix: Android, WebOS, LiMo, Moblin, Maemo, Ubuntu, .... The iPhone OS is based on FreeBSD, a cousin of Linux.Thus, Linux/*nix is already entering the "desktop" of the average user, through the use of mobile devices. And,...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Invisible Linux

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Auto Super Grub Disk 1.7 (Windows)

Auto Super Grub Disk installs a new boot entry into the Windows boot. Once you have reboot just select unetbootin-super grub disk and the program does everything alone so that you can recover your grub menu and thus your Linux boot again. Version 1.7 adds Ubuntu 9.04 and ext4 support....

Tags: Adrian15, Auto Super Grub Disk, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-03

Red Hat's Fedora 11 to offer interop with Microsoft Exchange

Red Hat is not going to let the Microsoft-Novell partnership dim its own prospects for interoperability. That seems to be the case with the Red Hat-sponsored open source Fedora project, which plans to release on June 9 a major upgrade of its free Linux that offers robust...

Tags: Red Hat Inc., Microsoft Exchange Server, Fedora Project, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Instant Messaging, Groupware, Open Source, Internet, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2009-06-02

In fairness to Moblin

In fairness to MoblinIt's UNR, not NBRThe acronym isn't "NBR", it's officially "[b]UNR[/b]" for [i]Ubuntu Netbook Remix[/i].http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download-netbookGive it timeThere are a lot of interesting concepts circulating in the computing space right now.- smartphone OSes on netbooks/tablets.- smartphone apps on desktop OSes (Ubuntu/Android). - a task-based usage paradigm versus an apps-based...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Smart phones, KDE4, NBR, Moblin, Mandriva, netbook, desktop, Palm Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate published

Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate published disappointedI run Kubuntu on my laptop brother of Ubuntu, and I'm very disappointed to read that this RC still hasn't fixed the connecting to hidden wifi bug.Simply put, you can't connect to a hidden wifi. I'd consider this a good reason for postponing the release....

Tags: UNIX, Wireless LANs, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Reiser4, Ubuntu, Linux, Ubuntu 9.04 release candidate, Ubuntu 9.04, release candidate, Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

TomTom pays Microsoft and settles patent-infringement dispute

TomTom pays Microsoft and settles patent-infringement disputeRE: TomTom pays Microsoft and settles patent-infringement disputeAnd the winner is Microsoft just like we all predicted. I still won't be buying any TomTom products due to their actions. Obviously there is something to the Microsoft patents and the linux vendors who did the...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, TomTom, Microsoft Corp., Tom-Tom

Discussion threads 2009-03-30

Parted Magic LiveCD 3 (Windows)

Optimized at approximately 45MB, the Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of fileystem...

Tags: LiveCD, Partedmagic, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Parted Magic LiveUSB 3 (Windows)

Optimized at approximately 45MB, the Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, etc.) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of fileystem...

Tags: Partedmagic, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Internet

Software downloads 2008-10-02

Parted Magic PXE 3 (Windows)

Optimized at approximately 45MB, the Parted Magic OS employs core programs of GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs (e.g. Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue) and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of fileystem tools...

Tags: Partedmagic, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software, Internet

Software downloads 2008-10-02

OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu’s Volkswagen

2008 will be a very good vintage for community end-user Linux distributions. So far, we've seen the release of Ubuntu 8.04, which is universally considered to be  a major milestone release in usability and device compatibility, and one of the easiest distros to install. While not as widely lauded, we...

Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Fedora Project, Novell OpenSuse, Volkswagen AG, GNOME, Software Update Utility, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-03