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A Trip Down Distro Memory Lane 238

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 07, 2009 @03:22PM from the early-nostalgia-is-the-best-kind dept.

M-Saunders writes "What did the Linux world look like back in 2000? TuxRadar has republished a distro roundup from Linux Format issue 1, May 2000. Many distros such as SUSE, Mandrake and Red Hat are still around in various incarnations, but a few such as Corel and Definite have fallen by the wayside."

Submission + - OpenSUSE 11.1 Is Now Available

Submitted by Nate2 on Thursday December 18, 2008 @10:13AM

Nate2 writes: The new version of OpenSUSE is now here, sporting KDE 4.1.3, OpenOffice.org 3.0 and a bunch of desktop refinements. Grab a copy from here and see Linux Format's hands on look at the new features.

Comment Mean-spirited? (Score 5, Insightful) 838

by SultanCemil on Saturday July 26, 2008 @05:03PM (#24350297) Attached to: FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars

You know, this isn't cool - its just damn annoying to anyone who actually *needs* to use the genius bars. This will just cause the general public to hate the FSF.

Comment Here's what they will accomplish: (Score 5, Insightful) 838

by Daniel Dvorkin on Saturday July 26, 2008 @05:03PM (#24350333) Attached to: FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars

(1) Interfere with people who need tech support.

(2) Piss off Apple customers and turn them away from F/OSS.

(3) Absolutely no change in Apple policy.

I'm glad to use F/OSS on my Mac, including a great deal of software produced under the FSF umbrella, and I have released software, developed on the Mac, under the GPL. The success of OS X has created a huge new market for those who develop on Unix-type systems. Braindead stunts like this really don't help.

Comment Brilliant (Score 5, Insightful) 838

by Nimey on Saturday July 26, 2008 @05:03PM (#24350353) Attached to: FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars

Waste the time of large numbers of people who have nothing to do with making decisions for Apple, and also the time of those people who actually need help with their Apple equipment.

That'll win hearts and minds for sure.

Comment This is why they will never be taken seriously (Score 5, Insightful) 838

by antifoidulus on Saturday July 26, 2008 @05:03PM (#24350323) Attached to: FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars

by large segments of the population. Immature bullshit like this. You have a point, you can advertise it on your web site, but grow the fuck up. Doing shit like this will only turn people AWAY from your message.

Comment Re:DoSing is OK now? (Score 3, Interesting) 838

by DaveV1.0 on Saturday July 26, 2008 @04:52PM (#24350755) Attached to: FSF's "Defective By Design" Targets Apple Genius Bars

You call this activism? I call it harrasment, immoral, and unethical. I call it rude and stupid.

I like the way you have a double standard for DoS. It is OK in meatspace but wrong in cyberspace.

Maybe Apple should send out an email or just post on their website how the FSF decided to hurt Apple's customers and ask that people not support the FSF in any way.

Array-Based Memory May Put a Terabyte On a Chip 93

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 21, 2008 @12:48PM from the need-ramback-now dept.

Lucas123 writes "A new type of flash memory, called array-based memory, could offer a terabyte of data on a single chip within the next decade by bypassing current NAND memory technology, which is limited by the miniaturization capability of lithography. According to the Computerworld story, start-up Nanochip Inc. is being backed by Intel and others, and over 11 years has made research breakthroughs that will enable it to deliver working prototypes to potential manufacturing partners next year. And by 2010, the first chips are expected to reach 100GB capacity."

Submission + - Fedora 8 officially released (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by Cat in the Hat on Thursday November 08, 2007 @11:44AM

Cat in the Hat writes: Fedora 8 has been officially released. Ars Technica has a run-down of what's new in Fedora 8, including the PulseAudio sound daemon, Nodoka visual style, and a new authentication system. 'Another major change in Fedora 8 is the new PolicyKit authentication system that makes authority escalation more secure. Instead of providing root access to an entire program when it needs higher privileges, PolicyKit makes it possible to isolate individual operations that require higher privileges and put them into system services that can be accessed through D-Bus. Another advantage of PolicyKit is that it will give administrators more control over which users and programs have access to individual operations that use escalated privileges.'

First Look at RHEL 5 - From the New, More Open Red Hat 220

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @03:07PM from the reinvention dept.

Susie D writes "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released today, and Linux Format has an in-depth first look (with screenshots aplenty). With RHEL 5, Red Hat aims to become even more 'open', by using a shorter and clearer SLA, improving community involvement through its Knowledge Base, and providing the new Red Hat Exchange. But what you really want to know is, yes, it does include XGL for fancy 3D desktop effects."

Submission + - RHEL 5 - from the new, more open Red Hat

Submitted by Susie D on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @12:03PM

Susie D writes: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is released today, and Linux Format has an in-depth first look (with screenshots aplenty). With RHEL 5, Red Hat aims to become even more 'open', by using a shorter and clearer SLA, improving community involvement through its Knowledge Base, and prodiving the new Red Hat Exchange. But what you really want to know is, yes, it does include XGL for fancy 3D desktop effects...

Submission + - Software Deletes Files to Defend Against Piracy

Submitted by

teamhasnoi

on Saturday February 24, 2007 @02:10AM

teamhasnoi writes: "Back in 2004, Slashdot discussed a program that deleted your home directory on entry of a pirated serial number. Now, a new developer is using the same method to protect his software, aptly named Display Eater. In the dev's own words, "There exist several illegal cd-keys that you can use to unlock the demo program. If Display Eater detects that you are using these, it will erase something. I don't know if this is going to become Display Eater policy. If this level of piracy continues, development will stop." Is deleting user data ever acceptable, even when defending one's software from piracy?"

Journal Journal: Minnesota requires 25% renewable energy

Journal by SEWilco on Saturday February 24, 2007 @01:22AM

Governor Pawlenty of Minnesota has signed a bill which requires a significant amount of energy from renewable sources. "The bill signed by the Governor requires energy companies to provide 25 percent of power from renewable sources by 2025. Xcel Energy, which supplies appr

Everybody Votes on the Wii 87

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 15, 2007 @05:41AM from the it's-like-democracy-only-more-efficient dept.

Wired's Game|Life blog has up a post pointing out a surprise from Nintendo: a cute voting application now available on your Nintendo Wii. Unannounced and easy to understand, Everybody Votes appears to be attempting to gain a gestalt view of the Wii-owning population. The app gives you several multiple choice questions to answer, and allows you to submit your own. Chris Kohler hopes that this might be the beginning of downloads for small, entertaining programs Nintendo fans may have never otherwise seen. "If you've ever been to an E3 or read about Nintendo's booth, you know that they often show little demos or applications that never get released. Well, with Wii, it seems that we might actually start seeing those little experiments thrown out to the public. Since Nintendo as a game developer uses this first-prototype-something-fun style of design, we could see all kinds of things that ordinarily wouldn't ever make it out of Nintendo headquarters." I personally hope we get a full-fledged version of the conducting game that Miyamoto used to demo the system at last year's E3.

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