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User Interface Compared: Ubuntu 11.04 VS. Mac OS X

Ubuntu Linux 11.04 has been released with new look and new features. The popular linux operating system now use Unity as default desktop environment and it looks like Apple Mac OS X.

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Dell to Offer 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.

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IEs4Linux – Install Internet Explorer on Linux with One Script

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!

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Picasa for Linux

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

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Install Internet Explorer 6 on Linux

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.

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Gentoo Linux Founder Quits Microsoft

Microsoft can’t keep Linux geek in its lab?

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Free Ubuntu Linux CDs: Received

Oh yes! I received the Ubuntu free CDs that I ordered previously. The CDs comes with very nice package. Each set has two CDs: install CD & live CD. The Ubuntu version is 5.04.

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Linux for Ladies

Sorry to disappointed you. This is a detergent branded as “Linux”. Oh, I thought “Linux” is trademarked, no?

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Free Ubuntu Linux CDs

Ubuntu is giving away installation CDs for FREE! It even cover the shipping fee for you!

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Mandriva 2006 Beta 1 Available

Mandriva(previously Mandrake) 2006 Beta 1 is available for download now.

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Fedora Core 4 Released

Fedora Core 4 sponsored by Red Hat and supported by the Fedora community (soon to be Fedora Foundation) has been released with a number of new features: GNOME 2.10, KDE 3.4, Evince, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Eclipse 3.1, support PowerPC(read: Apple), etc.

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Chinese bank opts for open source

The Industrial Commercial Bank of China has signed a deal with Turbolinux to run its open-source software in all of the bank’s operations.

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Microsoft to Support Linux

Microsoft has done what could have once been considered unthinkable: It has begun to support Linux in its products.

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Australian Banks Eye Bootable Linux Live CD

Australian company Cybersource says it’s currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Linux-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security.

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Soccer-Playing Robot

This article by a PhD student at Shanghai JiaoTong University (SJTU) Research Institute of Robotics describes an RTLinux-powered robot that placed fifth in the most recent RoboCup competition.

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