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- hardy heron is hardly a snap
- Hardy Heron is hardly a snapA clean installation is always better than an upgrade...of an older version. This old wisdom is valid for every operating system under the sun.The possible problem lies in the settings and configurations of the older version. Sometimes they conflict with the new version.If you want...
- Tags: Linux, Corporate communications, Video cards, Operating systems, Hardy Heron, snap
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Edubuntu "Hardy" release almost ready for prime time
- Recent discussions on the Edubuntu users' list suggest that Edubuntu's Hardy Heron (Version 8.4) release scheduled for April will bring solutions to a few long-standing problems, as well as long-term support. While Version 7.10 was quite stable and worked very well, 8.4 may be just the ticket for summer...
- Tags: Hardy Heron, Productivity, Product Marketing, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Ubuntu "hardy heron" announced
- Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" announcedHow do they do it?A new version every six months, with every time important improvements.... how do they do it?I guess that's the power of open source. A power house if there ever was one!I've used Ubuntu since july 2006: Dapper Drake 6.06 was my first. That...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, Ralink, Ubuntu, Hardy Heron, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- Ubuntu "hardy heron" announced
- Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, has announced the next version of Ubuntu - Ubuntu 8.04, codenamed Hardy Heron. Here's the details of the announcement: This will be the version that succeeds Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) which is due out in Oct 2007. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Hardy Heron, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
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- Mobius Seattle 2008: SE, MWg, and HTC show off their devices
- I was very pleased to be invited to the first Mobius event of 2008, that is actually being held here in the Seattle area. Thus, I had no travel to get to Mobius and that may have made the decision to invite me to this event...
- Tags: High Tech Computer Corp., Device, Mobile, Mobius, XPERIA, SE, Panel Technology, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- HRH Prince Penguin
- Did anyone else happen to notice that Prince Charles is a closet Penguin? On our UK-based sister site, ZDNet.CO.UK our British colleague Andrew Donoghue quoted His Majesty as follows: "Many of the case studies we received highlight the...
- Tags: Thin Client, Thin Clients, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up
- What would Ubuntu be like if it were an OS for grown-ups? This week at its CommunityOne event in San Francisco, Sun will release its May 2008 build of OpenSolaris (2008.05) the Open Source operating system based on the source code of the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., BSD, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Xubuntu 8.04 stellar on low-power machines
- Xubuntu 8.04 stellar on low-power machinesXubuntu 8.04 on low-power machinesI plan to load Xubuntu on two old machines -- so thanks for the info. I have had some success putting Puppy on some very old (98) machines. Why don't you try Puppy 3.01 or the latest beta (very...
- Tags: Linux, Memory, Microsoft Windows XP, OPEN SOURCE, Xubuntu, Xubuntu 8.04, low-power machine
- Discussion threads 2008-05-04
- Will OpenSolaris bring a chill to Sun-Ubuntu romance?
- You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. That seems to be the mantra of Ubuntu and Sun, both open source underdogs whose relationship and mutual platform support has been growing for three years. On the eve of the release of OpenSolaris, both companies are banging the drum that the...
- Tags: Ubuntu, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Linux, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- "Don't tell them that I love it"
- "Don't tell them that I love it"Skills cost moneyAll of this is predicated on one thing: Computers exist to get something else done.That could be me chatting with a friend, writing a document, or editing a photo. We are not interested in the system that gets that job done, we...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, job, Autodesk Inc., Hardy
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- News to know: Psystar; IT Dojo; Microsoft moral; SQL Injection attacks; Ubuntu
- Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack? IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties Another reason...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc., SQL, Microsoft Corp., SQL Injection, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- "Don't tell them that I love it"
- These were my son's words after living with Ubuntu 8.04 on his laptop for a day. Interestingly, he said, "I never loved Windows either, but it always worked for me." Of his fresh installation sans a Windows XP virtual machine, he noted that drastic improvements in boot and...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Training, Ubuntu 8.04, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Will the "12:00 flashers" change Linux?
- Will the "12:00 flashers" change Linux?RE: Will the12:00 flashers have enough trouble just pressing a button on their PC and finding the mouse and keyboard. So can you imagine what they will think when you tell them that they have to find the website, download the huge file and...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Canonical, Linux, Adobe Systems Inc., flasher, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Will the "12:00 flashers" change Linux?
- Here's an interesting experiment. Take a novice user, place them in front of a Linux distro in this case Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and see how they get on with basic tasks. But will these "12:00 flashers" (you know, people who's VCRs constantly flash "12:00" because they've not bothered to figure...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Operating System, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- hardy heron is hardly a snap
- When I received my super-cool Android PC from Eric Burke he thoughtfully installed a copy of Ubuntu 7.10 for me, so naturally when the new Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy Heron") was released I wanted to upgrade it to the latest and greatest version. "Installation is a snap," writes Adrian Kingsley-Hughes. Ubuntu...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Download Site, Microsoft Windows, Iso standards, Patches, Process Improvement, Web Site Development, Workforce Management, Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Quality, Business Operations, Internet, Human Resources, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- If my kid doesn't like Linux now...
- If my kid doesn't like Linux now...So if you buy your kid a Chevyand he demands a Hummer, do you cave in?Because the XP machine was, surprisingly, rampant with malware.Just what you want, a virtual machine running tons of virtual malware, virtual spamware, spyware, and probably botted. So, if...
- Tags: Instant messaging, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Ubuntu, Linux Now, gOS Rocket-E, Linux, old laptop, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- If my kid doesn't like Linux now...
- ...then I'll give him Vista. I finally had the chance to install Ubuntu 8.04 on his laptop last night, wiping out an unhappy 64-bit Kubuntu 7.10 installation. His final words before I took the laptop were, "Just save my music." Typical teenager. So I backed up...
- Tags: Desktop, CD, NVidia Corp., Laptop Computer, Vista Business DVD, Linux, Notebooks, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- (Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04)
- (Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04)Cool Smooth LooksThanks for the gallery pics; have installed it myself and loved the smoothness with which it went through. I hope MS is watching.-DHhttp://techwatch.reviewk.com/2008/04/ubuntu-hardy-heron-8-04-2/RE: (Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04)more meh..Why does it still default....to turd brown? It's getting there but Vista is light years ahead of these...
- Tags: Operating systems, Ubuntu Brainstorm, PC Linux OS, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- Ubuntu: I'm extremely impatient
- Okay, I admit, I am an impatient person. I hate waiting in lines. I have a superiority complex and a tremendous arrogance where I believe the world revolves around me. Hey, I'm a New Yorker, it comes with the territory. My wife, Rachel, is infuriated by this -- whenever we...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browsers, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04
- Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04RE: Adventures with Ubuntu 8.04Change to an old ATi RagePro or nVidia card. Check your RAM as well as other hardware components. Linux should install on this system, but if there is any failing hardware, forget it. One thing Linux is less tolerant of faulty hardware than...
- Tags: Linux, Corporate communications, Microsoft Windows, Video cards, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
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