Canonical has announced that it’s to begin limiting the number of free Ubuntu CDs people can order. The ShipIt scheme allows people to order a copy of Ubuntu on a CD for free through the mail. However, with Ubuntu growing in popularity Canonical has decided to make a few changes to the way the programme [...]
Moblin 2.0, the Linux-based operating system (OS) designed for Atom netbooks, is due to come pre-installed on some Dell netbooks from tomorrow.. Dell turned to Ubuntu creator Canonical to create the Ubuntu Moblin Remix Developer Edition for its Inspiron Mini 10v netbook, and will aim the package at developers. “Moblin keeps on getting more exciting [...]
Parallels has launched a new version of its Windows/Linux virtualisation product, which the company claims could run applications eight times faster than its predecessors. Parallels is best known for its Desktop for Mac application, which allows people to virtualise Windows applications, such as Office 2007, on their Apple hardware. The rather cumbersomely titled Parallels Desktop [...]
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Google has begun working on a 64-bit version of Chrome for Linux. “The V8 team did some amazing work this quarter building a working 64-bit port,” notes Chrome engineer Dean McNamee. “After a handful of changes on the Chromium side, I’ve had Chromium Linux building on 64-bit for the last few weeks.” Chromium is the [...]
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openSUSE will default to the KDE desktop environment during its next release, the project has announced on its mailing list. Beginning with openSUSE 11.2, users will be offered a choice between KDE and Gnome at the installation screen, with the KDE radio button pre-selected. It seems a small change, but given the amount of users [...]
Microsoft has released 20,000 lines of driver code to the Linux community under the General Public License. Microsoft has submitted the code to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree, and claims it will be made available as part of the 2.6.30.1 stable release. The code covers three Linux device drivers that [...]
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Linux will be the first operating system with official support for USB 3, an Intel open-source developer has announced. Sarah Sharp, who works in Intel’s Open Source Technology Centre, says on her blog that support of USB 3 would soon be integrated into the Linux kernel. “This is a giant project that I’ve been working [...]
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The DisplayLink technology which allows users to connect multiple monitors over USB is coming to Linux. DisplayLink uses lossless compression technology to allow people to connect additional displays to their machines, without the need for a heavy-duty graphics card. Currently, the technology is hampered by the USB 2 standard which means there isn’t enough bandwith [...]
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Canonical has released the first alpha of Karmic Koala, the operating system destined to become Ubuntu 9.10. The alpha was introduced by Canonical in typically ebullient fashion as “the absolute latest and greatest software the Open-Source Community has to offer,” though this was somewhat undermined by the developer notes which claim “Karmic is not encouraged [...]
