That’s right, the Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development. No longer do you have to suffer through all of the different examples in the Linux Device Driver Kit, or pick through the thousands of example drivers in the Linux kernel source tree trying to determine which one is the closest to what you need to do.
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Cleaning up a Ubuntu GNU/Linux system
31-Jan-07
If you want to clean your Ubuntu machine you need to follow these simple steps to remove all unnecessary junk files.
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Recently, Wal-Mart quietly created its own electricity company in Texas, called Texas Retail Energy, to supply its stores with cheap power bought at wholesale prices.
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Unused Oil Rigs Turned Into Wind Farms
31-Jan-07
The Gulf Coast is littered with the carcasses of unused oil equipment. Now those structures are being repurposed to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States.
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The drug dichloroacetate appears to target cancer cells, causing them to die. It’s potency as a cancer killing agent has been tested in tissue cultures and mice, with very promising results. However, clinical trials need to be run. Since the drug is not patentable and can be produced very cheaply, pharmaceutical companies won’t fund those trials.
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Debian hacker Robert Millan has just announced the availability of a Debian-Installer Loader for win32. The program, inspired by Ubuntu’s similar project, features 64-bit CPU auto-detection, download of linux/initrd netboot images, and chainloading into Debian-Installer via grub4dos. A frontend site has been setup for advocacy purposes.
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HP Reports $2.5 Billion in Linux Revenue
27-Jan-07
Providing strong evidence that Linux is a serious contender in the enterprise, HP has announced some US$2.5 billion in Linux-based revenue for 2003 — up 40 percent from 2002. The company also unveiled a number of new additions to its Linux portfolio.
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Go Green, Get Rich
27-Jan-07
Meet the companies tackling nine of humanity’s biggest problems — and making millions saving us from ourselves.
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The British Medical Journal has counted the online votes and named the biggest medical advance since 1840. And the award goes to… sanitation. Well, actually, it sorta is: “sanitation” refers to both clean water and sewage systems, which have surely saved millions of lives since 1840. Here’s the breakdown of the winner and runners-up…
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A-Data was showing off this 128GB 2.5-inch solid-state drive in the back rooms of CES, and finally a picture of the largest-capacity SSD in the world has surfaced. Not much is known about it except that it’s a SATA II drive and might be shipping about six months from now.
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Blockbuster mobile phone sales during the holiday season last year propelled shipments to over one billion for all of 2006, market researcher IDC said Thursday.
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When writing papers for school, it
’s always good to start your research online. Many academic journals publish their articles online—which can give you a head start on research prior to heading to your local library.
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