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Article | 19/11/2010 How to choose a Linux laptop

With the many choices and factors to consider, choosing a laptop of any kind can be a considerable challenge. Choosing one for use with Linux, however...

Article | 19/11/2010 Slew of new business tools coming to Ubuntu

If you use Ubuntu in your company, you're already familiar with its many advantages for businesses. But guess what? You ain't seen nothin' yet, as the...

Article | 18/11/2010 Tiny Linux Kernel patch delivers huge speed boost

What a difference 233 lines of code can make.

Article | 18/11/2010 3 more reasons not to use Facebook Messages

Many good reasons to be wary of Facebook's newly announced "Messages" service have already been pointed out on numerous occasions throughout the media...

Article | 16/11/2010 Samsung shares Galaxy Tab's open source code

Samsung's Galaxy Tab has only been out a few days in the United States, but already the benefits of its open source roots are becoming evident. Specif...

Article | 13/11/2010 Jolicloud may beat Chrome OS to netbook market

Google's Chrome OS may be ultimately intended to run on cloud-focused netbooks when it comes out, but as of yesterday it looks like a small, startup c...

Article | 13/11/2010 Linux Mint 10 ‘Julia' is now official

The Linux Mint team announced today that the final release of version 10 of the free and open source operating system, dubbed "Julia," is now official...

Article | 12/11/2010 Firefox 4 approaches warp speeds with JägerMonkey

We've known for some time now that the JägerMonkey JavaScript engine seen in recent nightly preview builds of Firefox 4 would increase the browser's s...

Article | 10/11/2010 Chrome browser set to become 'wicked fast'

Earlier this fall Google promised that hardware acceleration advances were going to make Chrome 7 as much as 60 times faster than its predecessor, and...

Article | 10/11/2010 Mozilla Firefox celebrates 6 years

Mozilla is celebrating the sixth birthday of its Firefox browser today, and it's inviting users of the popular free and open source browser to help by...

Article | 9/11/2010 Ubuntu will adopt Wayland Graphics System

Hard on the heels of Canonical's controversial decision to use the 3D-enabled Unity interface in its desktop Ubuntu operating system came word late la...

Article | 6/11/2010 10 reasons open source is good for business

With the many business and government organizations that now use open source software such as Linux, it's becoming increasingly clear that price is no...

Article | 5/11/2010 Is your business compliant with open source licenses?

There are many ways that vendors of proprietary products try to scare business customers away from open source software, and one of the more commonly ...

Article | 5/11/2010 No HTML5 crown for IE9 yet, W3C says

Following the flurry of reports early this week that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 had bested key competitors in the browser arena on early HTML5 co...

Article | 4/11/2010 Cloud and virtualisation features set Fedora 14 apart

Fedora 14, or "Laughlin," made its official debut on Tuesday, and it's packed with a raft of new features designed to enhance the experience for users...