FSM has an article about improvements coming our way in X.org. "There's more coming our way than 'mere' graphical goodness: Xorg developers are about to unleash upon us more performance and ease of use than X ever knew before. Not only that, the work being done now will allow older hardware to perform better and new hardware to be supported faster."

 

via > http://www.osnews.com/story/21600/Emergi...ts_in_Xorg

Quote:To be honest, i will not claim i am a fan of Ubuntu and that i have installed it on my home or personal pc but since i observed that there is a lot of our users taking interest in our articles with the key word of

I spend a lot of time online, and am uncomfortable leaving my machine up and running without firewalls, and virus protectors. I liked Zonealarm and AVG for the functions, along with CyberHawk for active monitoring. But none of those exist for Ubuntu. Any suggestions for what I can use?

 

Micahd

Help. I need to set up Evolution to access the POP3 servers at Verizon.net, but don't know how to set it up. I can't access the account via the web (or don't think I can) since I don't think verizon has a web access server. Anyway, I'd like to access my e-mail, which until recently I got in Outlook (UGH. Microsnot broke, and I DON'T want to go back). Anyone help me with this? I'm running Ubuntu 9.04, and have full root privileges.

 

Micahd

Quote:Back when the whole netbook thing started, Asus was king of the hill with a focus on netbooks with Linux pre-installed. Since they were kind of popular, it didn't take Microsoft long to start working together with Asus to 'port' Windows XP to the Asus line of netbooks, and with that, to other netbooks as well. The result was that Linux netbooks are now harder to find for many people. While Dell committed itself to Linux on netbooks, Asus has decided to just skip the first date and jump right into bed with Microsoft. 

Asus and Microsoft have started a join advertising campaign promoting netbooks with Windows. It basically comes to Asus and Microsoft saying that netbooks are better with Windows - that is, better than netbooks with Linux. "Windows helps you easily get online and connect to your devices and services - without dealing with an unfamiliar environment or major compatiblity issues." Mind that the emphasis is theirs, not ours. Here's the teeth-grindingly cheesy video that's part of the campaign.

Quote:OpenSolaris 2009.06 has been released: "Today marks the release of OpenSolaris 2009.06, the third release of the OpenSolaris operating system. We've shifted gear, bringing you a new set of features right to your door, from the desktop to the data center. New features: network virtualization with Crossbow; turn any host into a SCSI target with COMSTAR; host virtual guests using xVM Hypervisor or LDoms; SPARC support for Distro Constructor, Auto Install, and Snap; Intel Xeon 5500 processor support with deep power management; MySQL and PHP DTrace probes in the WebStack; improved usability of the package management system; ZFS Time Slider snapshot management; contribute new applications with SourceJuicer; Get 24/7 support with OpenSolaris subscriptions." See the release announcement and release notes, and visit the what's new page for further information.

now that the site looks so new and shiney i've decided to make other changes, such as rank changes, so i've removed the fluff (too many) and reduced the number of ranks

 

 

now you are a noob until 50 posts and so on as detailed here

 

 

Member Titles/Ranks

Title Minimum Posts Pips

Noob 0 *

Linux-Noob Member 50 **

Linux-Noob Frequent Member 100 ***

Linux-Noob Senior Member 500 ****

Linux-Noob GURU 1000 *****

 

thoughts ?

today the site was updated, and to reflect that we want your opinion

 

so tell us what you think

 

cheers

anyweb & co

hi all,

 

finally after years of looking like this linux-noob.com has had a makeover, as a result there may be some things not working properly yet so please be patient while I try to fix everything,

 

please report any problems with the new look here and i'll respond,

 

kudos must go to Invision for making this new board, it looks GREAT !!! and big thanks go to Hybrid for making the beautiful logos you see top left,

 

oh and do you like the new look ????

 

cheers

anyweb

There are several ways to run Windows programs on Linux (virtualisation, WINE) and vice versa really isn't a problem either with Cygwin, or better yet, native ports thanks to the Windows variants of Gtk+ and Qt. Still, what if Windows support was built straight into the Linux kernel? Is something like that even possible? Sure it is, and the Chinese figured it'd be an interesting challenge, and called it the Linux Unified Kernel.

 

more > http://www.osnews.com/story/21573/Linux_Un...Linux_NT_Kernel