Posts Tagged ‘linux’

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Apr26

Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix 0% Battery Power Situation

by todd on April 26th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Netbook

Anyone who has ever used a notebook or netbook computer understands that battery charge percentage reporting is not even near an exact science. If your notebooks and netbooks are like the ones I’ve used over the years, you’ve probably found your notebook or netbook completely shuts down way before your battery charge gets to 0%. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Aug04

eWeek says: Linux to Outsell Windows in Mobile Internet Device Market (But Wait!)

by todd on August 4th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices

eWeek has an article with the provocative title of… Linux to Outsell Windows in Mobile Internet Device Market …that says: Linux will be the top-selling operating system in the mobile Internet device market, outselling Microsoft Windows Mobile and other rivals by 2013, said ABI Research. It goes on to report that In MIDs, all mobile […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jul27

ars technica Shows How To Install Ubuntu on an Eee PC

by todd on July 27th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Netbook

If you have an Eee PC (I’ve got it in my wish list), ars technica has a how-to article you might be interested in reading… How to: Installing and running Ubuntu on the Eee PC

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Jun25

Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition

by todd on June 25th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices, Mobile Devices, Netbook

I watched/read the various articles and blog posts about the recently released… Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition earlier this week. I’ve been working with various Red Hat related distros myself (mostly CentOS and, to a lesser extent, Fedora Core) for most of this decade. But, I’ve downloaded and tried all of the Ubuntu distros […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May19

Fedora 9 Linux Live USB Portable Desktop

by todd on May 19th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Posted In: Mobile Devices

Just read this article over on Information Week about Fedora 9‘s (Linux) USB Live feature that lets you store your preferred desktop on a 2GB USB flash drive. This desktop is not from your own Fedora desktop. Instead it is a prepackaged image that Red Hat calls CustomSpins. Red Hat’s Fedora 9 Loads Portable Desktop […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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