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Intro Although I still consider myself a Linux n00b I love to tinker and get my geek fix whenever there’s a new distro to play with and having not had any other hardware to test on recently I will be giving a quick rundown on how Fedora 16 feels out of the box on the [...]

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So, firstly I realise I haven’t posted anything in a while and for that I’m truely sorry. To be honest I’ve been busy with selling my house, cycling from Paris to Chamonix and having an awesome snowboard season while avoiding work as much as I could. Well they say all good things come to an [...]

So I just installed Fennec (beta) for Android on my Samsung Galaxy S. For those who don’t know Fennec is the Mobile version of Firefox. The concept is based on “horses for courses”. You couldn’t run Firefox (the Linux version) on Android – it just doesn’t work that way. But there are probably many parts [...]

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Inspired by ever increasing publicity and debate I’ve decided to write a post on Linux Operating Systems and Free Open Source Software (FOSS). For the uninitiated, the Linux Kernel is a bit of code at the heart of any Linux system, be it Ubuntu (a popular desktop Operating System), Android (Google’s mobile phone Operating System) [...]

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Following from the article we worte about upcoming tablet tech we are now interested in the Camangi WebStation and it’s 7″ Android based device now available for pre-order. Watch this space to see how it is received and how much they have made of the platform destined to take over the world.

Although Microsoft has released source code before – specifically when products were in development stages (exclude Chinese Windows licenses for now) – yesterday they released device driver code under the GPL v.2 license aiming the code at convergence between the two OS types – Windows and Linux. The hierarchy, from Microsoft’s perspective is, of course, [...]

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I have finally been able to take time out from the doing of things and backtracked to write about the things I’ve been doing. To follow on from my previous post regarding the release of Fedora 11 here I will be covering the install onto the Acer Aspire One netbook – specifically the model with [...]

I have been using various flavours of Linux on a variety of platforms for a couple of years and have most recently been using Fedora 10 on an Acer Aspire One. I can only say that the out-of-box usage after installing from a Live USB image was 100% and beat the 8.10 Ubuntu distro hands [...]