Archive for February, 2007

Will Dell see their customers really want Linux?

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Dell recently opened up an idea forum called Dell Idea Storm. Currently, the most popular request is pre-installed Linux… Although I don’t see Foresight in the list :(

Foresight Is a Linux Distro to Watch

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

What sets Foresight apart from the rest of the fledgling distro pack is the software management framework on which its built. Foresight is one of the most active projects based on rPath’s Conary software management system, which offers administrators a great balance of flexibility and control in deploying and maintaining applications on Linux.

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Early Update Manager screenshots

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Jon has been working on a cool new gtk interface to rAA, here are some early screenshots of it in action.

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Video mode selection in the kernel?

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

This is a interesting post on integrating video mode selection in the kernel.

I think this could really improve the user experience, is it a pipe dream?


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