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Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2

It's been a while since we've had a hardcore Geek Sheet installment, and I promise that this one will be a real winner. Some of you may be aware that the updated Hyper-V bare-metal hypervisor virtualization layer in Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2 (Which is due...

Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux Distribution, Mouse, Network, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, SLES, LinuxIC, OpenSUSE 11.1, ENTER, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-09

Fedora 10 + Acer Aspire One = damn fine computer

Fedora 10 + Acer Aspire One = damn fine computerMeant reply to story. ;) ntntI like ......your approach, 100% real world hand-on DIY. Pound for pound, I think this is the best review I've read about one of these puppies.Hey Chris, I don't want to give you extra work,...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, openSUSE, openSUSE 11.1, Acer Aspire, Fedora Project, Acer Inc., Point Unetbootin, Fedora 10, Linux, computer

Discussion threads 2009-01-04

openSUSE 11.1 KDE 4.1 (openSUSE 11.1 )

openSUSE 11.1 KDE 4.1 (openSUSE 11.1 )OpenSUSE 11.1 KDE 4.1I have installed the 32 bit on my Dell CoreDuodesktop with NVIDIA 7300LE display. GREAT! Ihave installed the 64 bit on my ToshibaSatellite laptop with ATI 1200 display. GREAT! I am totally impressed with this release ofOpenSUSE. ...

Tags: Notebooks, YaST, openSUSE 11.1, openSUSE, openSUSE 11.1 KDE 4.1

Discussion threads 2009-01-04

Tough Love with openSUSE 11.1

Tough Love with openSUSE 11.1why do you keep talking about ubuntu...as it was an easy distribution and do not try out linux mint? a far better integrated and just "out of the box functional" distro.try it, and you'll see that your father in law doesn't want to go back. Ubuntu,...

Tags: Linux, Desktops, Notebooks, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, openSUSE, openSUSE 11.1, Ubuntu, Tough Love, desktop

Discussion threads 2008-12-18

Tough Love with openSUSE 11.1

openSUSE 11.1 is packed full of features, but a lack of QA and user acceptance testing in this release may cause Linux newbies to seek out other distributions, such as Ubuntu Ibex. I wanted to love openSUSE 11.1. I really did. ...

Tags: Ubuntu, Release, QA, Server, openSUSE 11.1, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-12-18

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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

Linux-Windows gap to remain for five years

In other words...This only confirms what we have been saying for sometime now.Desktop Linux lags behinds Windows And Mac for these facts alone, but the biggest one is mainstream application software compatibility which so far, were you to look at system requirements would only support Windows and Mac... There are...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Ubuntu, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...

Tags: Ubuntu, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., High Tech Computer Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, P2P, Palm Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Apple Inc., Beta, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Tablets, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Notebooks & Tablets, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-05

openSUSE 11.2 M8: What a Fine Lookin' Lizard

Sorry. Ubuntu 9.10 is simply put together better. Parts is Parts.ntim looking forward to 9.10 this october ntntWe each have our favorite distro...I have tried many distros over the years and kept gravitating to Mandrake. I followed Texstar to PCLinuxOS and have been there for the past 3...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Ubuntu 9.10, Grey, Mepis, Linux, distro, KDE, SuSE

Discussion threads 2009-10-04

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

First Look: Ubuntu 9.10 beta "Karmic Koala"

wow... seriously?NOTE: This was supposed to be in response to the "good for poor people" comment, but I screwed up:Do you have any basis for your claims? Have you even used Linux, let alone this version of Ubuntu which is still just a Beta? Why does cost/money...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Firefox to run checks for Adobe Flash patch

I like this about time. this is something every browser needs to do. I always forget to update mine for months. it's completely uselessit's completely useless, because Flash plug-in already checks for updates. Not exactlyIIRC, the plug-in only checks for updates if the web page specified a minimum version that...

Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, plug-in, openSUSE, Konqueror, FlashGot, Adobe Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

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

Dell: Linux netbook returns a "non-issue"

Marketing?A Dell exec goes to a Linux convention and says what the community wants to hear. He says, Linux netbook returns are not an issue. What's he gonna say to a linux crowd, "We put your OS on our hardware and people hated it."He's going to throw them...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, netbook, Linux netbook, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Is it time to dump Adobe's Flash player?

Is it time to dump Adobe's Flash player?Yup it's time to do soI have disabled flash in both firefox and IE and only enable them when opening youtube. Unlike flash, Silverlight runs in a sand boxed environment. Remember Vista was hacked last year in that hacking contest? Vista was hacked...

Tags: Web browsers, SECURITY, Is It Time, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Flash, Novell AppArmor, Adobe Systems Inc., IS IT, IE8

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

No more free tomatoes from your neighbor?

No more free tomatoes from your neighbor?Yikes!!Yikes!My mother grows tomatoes. I'll have to keep an eye on this and tell her.unenforceable, and not likely to pass in current formIt will likely get modified, or dumped in favor of a bill that has better language.ROFLA $1,000,000.00 fine? If nothing else, it...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Monsanto, free tomatoe, food, tomatoe, Roundup

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

A case for rugged laptops?

A case for rugged laptops?Just switched to a netbook desktop PC combinationToshiba had the same problem with its power connections. My Jan 08 Satellite L40-17U, which my wife now uses, has its power connection at the back also. My wife likes to watch movies while sitting in bed......

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Desktops, laptop computer, netbook, rugged laptop

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

Eating my own dogfood?

Eating my own dogfood?My month with UNR so farI have been using UNR 9.04 for a month now, on my Acer Aspire One A150. I like it very much. My multiple boot AAO has two other operating systems on it as well (openSUSE 11.1 and Windows XP Home), but those...

Tags: SMB/SME, Microsoft Windows XP, Ubuntu, Eating, Samba

Discussion threads 2009-05-26

VMware Workstation 6.5.2.156735 (Windows)

VMware Workstation is powerful virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. Users can run Windows, Linux, NetWare, or Solaris x86 in fully networked, portable virtual machines - no rebooting or hard drive partitioning required. VMware Workstation delivers excellent...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, VMware Inc., VMware Workstation, Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-04-24

Canonical hits back at Microsoft in netbook spat

Canonical hits back at Microsoft in netbook spat"users simply expect the Windows experience"Without Windows, people no longer have the skive of "just rebooting", or "my machine has stopped responding".heh"'It also supports them without the need to search for drivers on dubious websites or load drivers from a CD,' Kenyon coughed....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, netbook, netbook spat, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Canonical, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-04-14