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With the new partnership of Canonical and Dell, soon you can order a Dell desktop or notebook with pre-loaded Ubuntu Linux operating system.

The Dell-Ubuntu computers will be shipped with Ubuntu 7.04 (codename: Feisty Fawn). It is the most user-friendly Ubuntu to date and includes Windows migration assistant, wireless networking support and improved multimedia support.

If you wanna try Ubuntu, you can get Ubuntu by online download, buy Ubuntu on CD, or request FREE Ubuntu CDs.

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Previously, I published a tip to install Internet Explorer (IE) on Linux, but it was rather complicated for most of the new Linux users. IEs4Linux is a simpler way to run IE on Linux. Besides IE6, it also supports IE 5.5 and IE5!

IEs4Linux setup

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Google’s free photo organizer, Picasa, is now available in Linux version.

Picasa for Linux runs the current Windows version of Picasa using a carefully tested version of Wine, an open-source implementation of the Windows application-programming interface (API). Wine runs on top of the X Window System and Linux or Unix. But it’s not a Windows emulator; instead, it provides a Windows API middleware layer that enables Windows programs to run on Linux without the slowing effects of OS emulation or a virtual machine.

About Picasa for Linux

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Thanks to WINE, you can run Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Linux quite well by now. Techblogging shows us the instruction to install Internet Explorer 6 on Linux.

• Get recent wine.
• Add a new user named “windows” to your system.
• Use gksu -u windows xterm to open a shell as the windows user.
• Download dcom98.com and ie6setup.exe, save them to /tmp.
• Type the following commands:
  cd
wget http://www.kievinfo.com/2/ie6_overrides.reg
wine regedit ie6_overrides.reg
wine /tmp/dcom98.exe
wine /tmp/ie6setup.exe
exit
• Now, you can run IE by following command:
  gksu -u windows wine C:\Program\ Files\Internet\ Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE

[via Techblogging]

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Microsoft can’t keep Linux geek in its lab?

Daniel Robbins, the founder and former chief architect of the Gentoo Linux project, has quit his job at Microsoft after only eight months, the software giant has confirmed.

“The reason I decided to leave had to do with my specific experiences working in Microsoft’s Linux Lab. Although I believe that the concept behind Microsoft’s Linux Lab is a good one, I wasn’t able to work at my full level of technical ability and I found this frustrating,” he said.

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