● 07.11.08

● Links 11/07/2008: LT’s Brian Stepping Up, Latest Mandriva and Ubuntu @ Alpha 2

Posted in News Roundup at 3:07 pm by Dr. Roy SchestowitzGNU/LinuxFrom the Middle English Phrase ‘God Be With Ye’Mandriva 2009 Alpha 2 Brings You a Beautiful KDE 4 DesktopMandriva announced last night the second alpha release of Mandriva 2009, which brings KDE4 (default desktop), GNOME 2.23.4, and support for the newest NVIDIA and ATI/AMD video cards.Ubuntu Intrepid alpha 2 out todayWubi: The Easy Way To Test-Drive Linux On A Windows PCThere must be a catch, right? Not really: If you’re looking for a realistic, fully functional Linux desktop experience, Wubi comes awfully close. While you will see a slight performance penalty running Ubuntu on a Windows file system rather than on a native Linux partition, keeping your Windows disk defragmented will keep the difference to a minimum.Why you want (and need) a Linux Live CDPlans for Gtk+/GNOME 3.0 surfacedAn Update On Generic GPU Video DecodingOne of Google’s Summer of Code projects this year is to bring hardware-based video acceleration to Linux with Gallium3D. The advantage of this design is that the implementation is designed to be universal to any driver using Gallium3D, which for now is largely just the Nouveau driver and an experimental Intel version.Motorola Releases Touchscreen Linux SmartphoneF/OSSEuropean consortium releases Open Source quality assessment platformThe Human Genome Goes WikiOpen source – a quality perspectiveMicrosoftMS takes Windows 3.11 out of embed to put to bed8 Worthy Alternatives To Microsoft OfficeBill Gates leaving Microsoft? Good riddance!Microsoft confirms active Word attacksMicrosoft Needs a Little More FixingYahoo CEO says not likely to meet with MicrosoftYahoo sups with key shareholder in Sun ValleyObama bloats Vista by 11MBLeftoversFCC Chair: Comcast Violated Open Access Ruled5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G Share in other sites/networks: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. Permalink  Send this to a friend

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