securityfocus.com - 12/14/2008
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Robert Lemos , SecurityFocus 2006-08-24 Many users of the increasingly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution found themselves on Tuesday thrown back to mid-1990s, when a botched update to the graphical X Window subsystem brought them face-to-face with the command-line terminal. The update, pushed ...
linuxlock.blogspot.com - 12/10/2008
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linuxlock.blogspot.com —
This blog is momentarily interrupted to bring you
a snippet of recently received email. "...observed one of...
my students with a group of other children gathered around his laptop. Upon looking at his computer, I saw he was giving a demonstration of ...
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Linux - Stop holding our kids back
jonramvi.com - 12/15/2008
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jonramvi.com —
Ubuntu Eee was started last December. It was
just a script which fixed some of the issues...
that came with Ubuntu when installing it on an EeePC. In June was Ubuntu Eee released as a whole operating system. There was a new release already in September ...
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Ubuntu Eee’s new name!
crn.com - 12/16/2008
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crn.com —
Industry observers have been predicting a surge in
desktop Linux adoption for years, but over time, those...
claims have taken on a decidedly "wait 'til next year" type of feel. But the growing popularity of netbooks, a significant number of which are ...
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Netbooks Primed To Push Linux Into Mainstream - Hardware ...
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Fedora 10's D-Bus Update Causes Some Headaches and Procedural Discussions
OStatic blogs —
... Every distribution has them. Every operating system has them. I know I've experienced GUI package management/updating glitches on other distributions in the past, most likely not related in any way to those that caused Fedora's issues. One LWN commenter mentioned the Ubuntu update issued in 2006 that left users without a graphical interface at all. ...
Fedora 10's D-Bus Update Causes Some Headaches and Procedural Discussions [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... Every distribution has them. Every operating system has them. I know I've experienced GUI package management/updating glitches on other distributions in the past, most likely not related in any way to those that caused Fedora's issues. One LWN commenter mentioned the Ubuntu update issued in 2006 that left users without a graphical interface at all. ...
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