Linux

Walmart has some computer bargains for the people who get up at the crack of dawn this Black Friday, November 27, 2009. Some of the bargains are:
eMachines 15.6″ eME627-5279 Laptop PC with AMD Athlon 64 Processor for $198.00 click here
HP 15.6″ Pavilion G60-519WM Laptop PC with Intel Celeron Processor 900 & Windows 7 Home Premium [...]

Google has officially announced that it needs developers, partners, and the open source community to get this operating system ready for use by next year. Google states that the new operating system will function entirely in a browser and that all application functions will be done online.
Here is what Google says will be great about [...]

As the world wide recession lingers on and more people struggle to make ends meet, more people are hanging on to their older computer systems. We are all aware that businesses failed to embrace Windows Vista and continue to use the reliable, though aging, Windows XP. But no matter how many consumers or businesses try [...]

While other companies like Blockbuster continue to have troubles in the movie rental business, Netflix continues to expand. In its latest offering, Netflix is going to be offering movie streams to owners of the popular Sony PS3 units. Current Netflix users with the $8.99 a month package for unlimited DVD rentals are automatically included in [...]

It is usually Microsoft and its Windows software that holds the title as bloatware. But now the founding father of Linux is admitting that the operating system he founded has become “bloated and huge.” Linus Torvalds also thinks that there is no diet plan in sight to trim down the Linux OS. So what does [...]

Yesterday I read an article stating that Microsoft was conducting an anti-Linux campaign at Best Buy. The article, which was based on what is alleged to be a post from a Best Buy employee, shows screen shots of the campaign. The allegations are that if Best Buy employees took the training they would be rewarded [...]

Not being an Apple person, I like reading about the new Snow Leopard operating system.  I enjoyed reading this from the AP:
Snow Leopard is a relatively cheap upgrade, costing $29 for an individual user who has Leopard, the previous operating system. A “family pack” for five users costs $49.
For Mac owners using the older Tiger [...]

Blogger Rosemary Port has been identified as the person who had made some rather unflattering comments about model Liskula Cohen. Calling the model a ‘ho’ and a ’skank’, the blogger was outed by Google after a court order forced Google to identify the blogger. But now Rosemary Port is going to sue Google saying that [...]

I just read an article about what the author described as the ‘dirty little secret’ about Linux. It isn’t about some dark secret hidden in the Linux code, rather it is Linux users themselves and how they treat new Linux users. I have tried various Linux distributions during the past decade, many which I have [...]

Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.

AVG anti-virus: 08/16/09
Avast: 08/13/09
Norton anti-virus: 08/12/09
McAfee anti-virus: 08/12/09
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 08/14/09
Spybot Search and Destroy: 08/12/09
Microsoft Windows Defender: 08/12/09
Nod32: 08/14/09

Updates as of August 16, 2009 6:00am CDT.

Make sure your system is up to date and has the latest protections in place.

AVG anti-virus: 08/02/09
Avast: 08/01/09
Norton anti-virus: 07/29/09
McAfee anti-virus: 07/29/09
Lavasoft Ad-Aware: 07/31/09
Spybot Search and Destroy: 07/29/09
Microsoft Windows Defender: 07/29/09
Nod32: 07/31/09

Updates as of August 02, 2009 6:00am CDT.

Bill Gates has stepped up to the plate and took a swing at the newly announced Google Chrome operating system saying it looks like Linux. Mr. Gates did say the Google hasn’t really said much about the new OS so it is hard to really comment on it. In fact the less Google says the [...]

Just a quick note to pass on this saving on a Dell Vostro A90 netbook for only $249, which is a $75 savings. But hurry. Dell states there are only 1,000 units at this price.
Specifications:

Intel® Atom Processor
Ubuntu Linux
1GB Memory & 16GB Solid State Hard Drive
Wireless Mini Card & Bluetooth Module
1 Year Basic Limited Warranty with [...]

The hopes of having a Android only Netbook computer came to a swift end, when the folks at Acer informed the world that the system would be a dual booter. Acer stated that having a dual boot system with Windows and Android would be safer. Safer because Android is currently an unknown and there currently [...]

Google Android, the operating system that could change the way we compute, may be coming our way in the third quarter of this year. The folks at Acer have plans to possibly introduce a Netbook using the Android OS. You may recall that Acer was the company that was highly critical of Microsoft when the [...]

Over at the PCLinuxOS site, they have a special edition of their magazine in .pdf format available for download. If you are a PCLinuxOS user you can also get free copies of the magazine as well. I checked out the special edition and there are some articles that may be of interest especially if you [...]

When Netbooks were first introduced, Linux provided a simple solution to keep the price down on the pint sized laptops. As Netbooks gained popularity, Microsoft took notice and began offering Windows XP for as little as $15 per machine. Rumors began to surface that people who bought Linux Netbooks were sending them back since they [...]

For any of us who have tried to learn Linux, we realize how difficult it can be. It is not that Linux itself is hard to learn, but it is the fact we want to do things in Linux like we do in Windows. This can make learning Linux a frustrating experience. Well there is [...]

Every time we think that Microsoft is going to stop the distribution of Windows XP, something else happens. This time it appears that consumers, bloggers, news articles and others may have put a stake though the heart of Windows 7 Starter Edition. It seems that people were not jumping up and down with the thought [...]

Wow! It seems that the old Microsoft-Intel alliance may be fading. Intel is in the process of creating their own Linux distribution. The new OS called Moblin is currently under beta testing. Intel wants the new OS to be optimized for their Intel graphics and Atom processing chips currently available for netbook computers. In a [...]