<b>Phoronix:</b> "Canonical expressed their plans to achieve a ten-second boot time in June of last year for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, with their reference system being a Dell Mini 9 netbook. In February, we last checked on Ubuntu's boot performance and found it close, but not quite there yet..."
Tuesday's single patch is rated critical for Windows security--the highest level of Microsoft's four-tier security threat severity scale--only for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 (SP4).
Storage and data backup for small businesses just keeps getting easier and more affordable. Iomega's StorCenter offers big capacity, features and peace of mind at great price.
<b>Network World: </b>"Two law professors from UC Berkeley have come up with a novel idea to protect open source developers from patent bullies. They call it the Defensive Patent License. They hope the DPL can address the objections FOSS developers have with patents the way the GPL addressed them for copyright."
Tip of the Trade: VirtualBox makes it easy to set up and run virtual machines on your own desktop. It is not perfect, however, and by default, the guest VM is invisible to the host or any other machines on the network. Here's an easy way to relay instructions to it.
HP puts a green spin on enterprise hardware with an environmentally pioneering, ultra-compact business desktop and handsome matching monitor. Does it have the productivity punch to go with its Gaia-friendly features?
HP puts a green spin on enterprise hardware with an environmentally pioneering, ultra-compact business desktop and handsome matching monitor. Does it have the productivity punch to go with its Gaia-friendly features?
LiveRail.com helps you place ads into videos, plus a great marketing content resource for your Web site and a site that tests all kinds of marketing ideas and publishes the results for free.
LiveRail.com helps you place ads into videos, plus a great marketing content resource for your Web site and a site that tests all kinds of marketing ideas and publishes the results for free.
<b>Datamation:</b> "A Chinese official has blasted Google's decision to offer unfiltered Web content to its citizens on the mainland, calling the move "totally wrong" and saying it violates Google's written agreement to abide by Chinese laws."
<b>Matthew Casperson's Hubfolio:</b> "Old MegaDrive/Genesis games can provide hours of fun on even modest PCs. In this article we take a look at some of the emulators that are available for Ubuntu."
<b>Desktop Linux:</b> "IBM, Canonical, and Simmtronics announced they will market an Intel Atom-based netbook in emerging markets. The Simmbook will be preloaded with the cloud-oriented IBM Client for Smart Work Linux distro, based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix, and will first be made available in Africa for just $190."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "One of the most beautiful aspects of LinuxLand is that, in its chaos, a wild creativity can spawn sweet and enduring projects. One of those projects, Compiz Fusion, was sparky enough to help me enter LinuxLand which in turn helped me build a hardware company."
<b>Packt:</b> "From the point we started our scene, we haven't tried any test renders yet to see how our underwater environment looks and I know you're all so eager to try and press that RENDER button (so am I), but let's make sure that we don't waste a second of our time by rendering something that's not worth the button press at all."
Virtually Speaking: Will enterprises cross Cloud.com bridge to a cloud computing infrastructure. It's betting the bank they will. And it's not the only one looking to make money by simplifying the path to the cloud.
<b>Linux Pro Magazine:</b> "Thus Canonical is implementing the cloud in its context. The DRM-free songs in MP3 format with a bitrate of at least 256 kbits/second are not loaded on the local machine, but in the Ubuntu One cloud."