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OpenSUSE now a little more Open

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Due out this Thursday is the latest offering from the OpenSUSE project. OpenSUSE 11.1 releases with some minor tweaks to the license agreement and removes some of the proprietary software that was originally bundled with it such as Acrobat and Java. Not surprising given Novell and Microsoft’s relationship. The modifications ...

PC Celebrates the big 40

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Today marks the birthday of a revolution.  40 years ago today Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute unveiled a primitive device with a mouse and interactive screen in a legendary demonstration to an audience of about 1000.  The device allowed the user to edit text and add graphics on ...

Fedora 10 Released

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Out today is the latest offering from the Fedora Project.  Cambridge was just released and has some improvements over previous releases and uses some of the latest features, fixes, and wizardry! Fedora 10 was built on kernel version 2.6.27, which was officially released in October. This version improved compatibility for popular ...

Market Research indicates Linux will dominate mobile internet devices

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

During the Linuxworld Expo in San Francisco, ABI Research is forecasting that open source will play a huge roll in the market of portable internet devices.  The research projects that 305,000 mobile internet devices will be sold and that sales will be around 39.6 million by year 2012.  This is ...

Happy 4th Of July

Friday, July 4th, 2008

The 4th is not Tech related at all but, it stands to reason that Independence day for the United States of America should be celebrated.  So on behalf of Tech Affiliate: Happy 4th Of July