<b>Ghacks:</b> "If you’ve ever tried your hand at The GIMP, you know that, at first, The GIMP can be a bit challenging to learn. That is coming from an adult. Imagine a younger user attempting to use The GIMP."
In previous articles discussing Oracle and VMware, the hardware and software components consisted of a Windows-based PC and the Oracle RDBMS. Steve Callan expands upon the "Oracle in a virtualized environment" concept by looking at other alternatives for the hardware and software.
<b>LinuxBSDos:</b> "Fedora 13 is one of the Linux distributions that supports and uses Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) as the default disk partitioning scheme."
<b>The Linux Critic:</b> "Ever since I got up close and personal with LXDE a few months ago, I’ve had my eye out for a distro that had a solid instance of LXDE as its default desktop environment. LXDE is getting more press and more attention, but the number of distros that rely on LXDE is still pretty small."
<b>Linux User and Developer:</b> "Kleo Bare Metal Backups is a freely distributed product from Carroll-Net, Inc (http://carroll.net), a company that has been in the business of protecting and retrieving data for over 15 years. This experience shows in the design of the software."
<b>Hardware Central:</b> "Intel is targeting the mainframe and RISC systems market with its new Xeon 6500/7500 lines of server processors that offer many features normally reserved for those high end systems."
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "You can use a dedicated application like FBReader or Calibre to read and manage ebooks on your machine, or you can do it without leaving the convenience of the Firefox browser courtesy of the EPUBReader extension."
Since it's not always easy for sales people to help customers imagine what an environment built around virtualization technologies would look like, VMware built one in an 18-wheeler and is sending it across North America.
Its specs sound generic -- Intel Atom CPU, 10.1-inch screen, 1GB of RAM, the usual -- but HP's top-of-the-line netbook is anything but. Can it justify a $415 price in a world of $300 to $350 netbooks?
Its specs sound generic -- Intel Atom CPU, 10.1-inch screen, 1GB of RAM, the usual -- but HP's top-of-the-line netbook is anything but. Can it justify a $415 price in a world of $300 to $350 netbooks?
<b>Hardware Central:</b> "The development of Linux on mobile devices may be poised to get a boost thanks to the formation of a new industry group called Linaro, backed by a consortium of chip vendors including ARM, Freescale, Texas Instruments, Samsung and ST-Ericsson."
Scammers target Facebook fans of Whole Foods Market grocery store, promising a $500 gift card, but they're really out to swipe users' personal information.
<b>one it security:</b> "No, Linux is no harder, in fact probably easier, although some of this is dependent on the particular flavor of Linux you’re talking about."
One of several non-security updates is causing system crashes for some Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 users. What does Microsoft have for a solution?
<b>Linux Magazine:</b> "The inability to play the latest off the shelf commercial games has been a thorn in the side of Linux for a long time. With companies such as Valve starting to embrace other platforms, will that be the catalyst Linux needs to become a first class citizen? "