>ROUND ROCK, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) today made it official, unveiling three consumer systems — the XPSâ„¢ 410n and Dimensionâ„¢ E520n desktops and the Inspironâ„¢ E1505n notebook — with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution factory installed. These new Ubuntu equiped PCs go on sale after 4PM CDT on May 24, 2007. You can check them out…
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Handy Linux Trick: Top+Kill
Ever have a program in X go wrong and blank your screen? This handy Linux tip should help.The other night I was trying to get some fan-sub anime to play on my Linux box but it was encoded in xvid and I did not feel like taking the time to check which player was setup…
The Epson Stylus C88 Printer, works in Linux but not in Windows?
Now, I’m confused. I installed Ubuntu on a spare machine because my printer started printing all wrong. I just completed sharing it with CUPS and Samba and what happens? It *still* prints all wrong from Windows!It must be a software problem. The fact that it works perfectly when printing from Linux tells me the printer…
Linux Flash Player 9 and the big four networks
Everyone has been eagerly awaiting the release of a new Flash Player for Linux and Flash Player 9 (prerelease) has arrived. I took this chance to go and check out the four big TV networks web offerings in regards to on line viewing of their shows. What follows is my results.Let me begin by stating…
Flash Player 9 for Linux released as prerelease
Happy days are here again! Adobe labs just released their prerelease of Flash Player 9 for Linux!You can download the “prerelease” of FlashPlayer 9 from their website.For those who may be wondering… Yes, the NBC online videos now work under Linux!Now, on the download page it mentions an “installer” for Linux, this is a bit…
Think Linux is too Hard? Try Ubuntu, the Friendly Linux Distro
I installed Ubuntu Linux a few days ago on my daughters old Windows 98 machine and I have to say that I am really growing to like it. why, if I wasn’t a Windows programmer I’d switch my own machine to Linux!It all started with a printer problem…Now that I’ve had a few days to…
NBC puts shows online… Unless you use Linux
Last night I had my friends over for a rousing night of gaming so I missed Heroes on NBC. I then figured, “hey, they show the most recent episode online, I’ll watch it the next day!” Boy was I in for a shock!No support for Ubuntu! Since I’ve only recently installed the latest version of…