On Thursday I installed the latest Ubuntu release (7.10) on my Dell 700m laptop. Prior that it was running an older Ubuntu release (6.10) up until about two weeks ago when, in anticipation of the new release, I backed up my data and started experimenting with other distributions. This has pretty much become my ritual […]
I just read on David Coldrick’s blog that Sun is proposing to dual license Netbeans under both the CDDL and GPLv2 licenses. He links to this FAQ page on the the Netbeans site. This is great news for Linux users, such as myself, as this will give distributors the ability to package Netbeans in their […]
I just purchased one of the first Dell’s pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux. I had several motives for doing so. The first, and primary, reason for the new computer was that my current work PC here at home has been giving me numerous hardware issues causing the computer to freeze up several times per […]
…well, a little more than a weekend. The same weekend that I experimented with Vista I also started experimenting with Xen. I had briefly experimented with Xen in the past but that was mostly with the Xen LiveCD available at the XenSource website.
[SLES 10]
To start off I figured I would test Xen on […]
A while ago I registered to download the RC versions of Windows Vista. Recently Microsoft released RC1 of Vista and I received an email with a product-key and a link to download the ISO. So why would a Linux/UNIX/Mac guy want to bother with such a thing? I believe it is […]
[.NET vs Java]
There is a rather interesting(*) article(**) on eWeek about .Net beating Java and leaving it in the dust. According to Bob Muglia, Microsoft’s senior vice president of Server and Tools business, they are claiming to have 60% of the market. Where they are getting these figures is anyones guess. […]
[Ubuntu 6.06 v. SLED 10]
I have been running Novell SLED10 RC3 for almost two weeks now and and so far have been very pleased with results. The system as a whole feels very well put together and is pretty slick. From the screenshots/screencasts I had seen earlier of the new GNOME menu […]
While catching up on some news reading this weekend I came across this interesting headline: “Microsoft Tries to Reclaim HPC Market Share from Linux“. I knew that MS had been working for the last several YEARS trying to create a product to enter the HPC market and it seems they are finally ready to […]
Google has recently made several products available for the Linux platform. Does this signal the beginning of a trend? I hope so!
The most recent, and a real surprise to me, was the release of Google Earth 4 Beta for Linux. I downloaded it last night and wasted a good hour or […]
[Ubuntu]
It was nice to see that the new version of Ubuntu is now officially out. I have been running the beta for serveral months now and have been very impressed with the improvements. Here is just a quick glance of what has stood out to me:
Overall seems more polished, refined, finished…
Boots way faster […]