Fedora 10 regains Linux fans

Red Hat's Fedora is regaining its reputation as being a top Linux distribution. Here's how it happened.

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Mini 9 Netbook Running Ubuntu Returned Less Than XP

According the recent sales figures by Dell, the Inspiron Mini 9 netbook running Ubuntu Linux has been remarkably successful and experienced supremely low return-rates.

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HOWTO: Monitor your Facebook profile in Linux

In this guide, we will show you a small application that allows you to monitor your Facebook profile without having to constantly check it through Facebook’s web site. This application notifies you instantly when your profile changes. For the time being this Facebook linux client is available only for Gnome users

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Patching Miniroot Image on Solaris 10 x86/SPARC (BigAdmin)

This article describes how to install the latest Kernel Update patch, or any patch, to a SPARC or x86 miniroot image for the JumpStart installation program.

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Ubuntu 9.10 will have special focus on Netbooks

"Also the Ubuntu Netbook Edition will be updated to include all the latest technology from Moblin & improved compatibility for all netbooks.

"The former Ubuntu Netbook Remix release was quite popular last year (see the screenshot) & got some good reviews, so it became the primary OS for a lot of Netbooks."

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Carmack: Quake Live on Mac, Linux 'high on my priority list'

"To that end, an external contractor is working on just that "right now" but Carmack acknowledges that Quake Live compatibility "is going to be a much bigger factor in [the Mac and Linux markets] for people wanting to play the game than it is on the Win32 market where you have so many more options." Carmack was even hopeful that, with enough popularity and some special attention from Apple, the could get "maybe a handful of milliseconds better [on Mac OS] than you can actually get on Windows."

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A fully functional 5 watt Linux server

It's about the size of an AC to DC converting wall outlet plug, but is really a full SoC with a 1200 MHz CPU, built-in 512 MB Flash, 512 MB DRAM, Gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0 support.

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