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Linux Journal Live - eBook Readers and DRM
November 14th, 2008 by Shawn Powers in
The November 13, 2008 edition of Linux Journal Live! Shawn Powers and special guest, Linux Journal Author Daniel Bartholomew, talk e-book readers and Daniel's Kindle, DRM, and other goodness.
Run Your Windows Partition Without Rebooting
November 13th, 2008 by Elliot Isaacson in
Dual booting is a necessary evil and very inconvenient. What if you could run your windows partition in a virtual machine, so you wouldn't have to worry about rebooting anymore? With VMWare Workstation, you can.
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December 2008, #176
The Oxford English Dictionary says the word "gadget" is a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember. Like that book-reader thingy from Amazon...what's it called? Spindle, Gindle...Kindle, that's it. Check it out in this month's gadget issue.
Other gadgets covered include the Nokia tablets, the BlackBerry, the Neo FreeRunner, the Dash Express, the Roku Netflix Player, the Kangaroo TV, The TomTom GO 930 and the MooBella Ice Cream System. On the larger hardware front, read the reviews of the Acer Aspire One and the YDL PowerStation. On the software front, check out the articles and columns on memcached, Samba security, Mutt, desktop gadgets, bash and Puppet. To wrap it all up, read Doc's thoughts on Google and the browser platform.
Dell Inspiron desktop
On March 27th, 2008 Chris C (not verified) says:
I went for a cheap Inspiron Ubuntu desktop - just added a little memory and upgraded the CPU - and it's been awesome. I'm an app programmer not a hardware guy so I didn't want to have to build my own system or troubleshoot basic operation, peripherals and drivers; I wanted it to just work and Dell delivered. I shopped around a lot and for the hardware and level of support etc. - it was the best deal I found in a comparable Linux desktop.
The only limitation I see right now is that there are not quite as many configuration options as I'd like, e.g. I would have liked an officially supported wifi card (only available in laptop, not desktop) - but I think offerings like that will grow with demand.