Ubuntu Look

It’s one small step for Dell and consumer Linux — and one giant leap for Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux efforts. Specifically, Dell is spending advertising dollars to promote PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled. The move has significant implications for the business world as well. Here’s why.

First, some details about the advertisement. Many many U.S. newspapers on Sunday, October 12, included a multi-page Dell flier. Among the many products advertised was the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, a low-cost sub-notebook designed for email and Web browsing.

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* News about Mint

Linux Mint 5 x64 Edition released!

mintMenu 4.1 was released (and 4.1.1 a small fix for hyphens in the search field) A nice improvement. Clicking on “Software Manager” now brings up the new mintInstall.

All the very latest versions of Mint applications are in the Romeo repository. You can either enable it or go to it directly and select the package.

The Community Podcast project is launched. We really want this to be good.

Linux Mint 3.x reaches end-of-life This means no more updates

* News about Linux

KDE Community Improves Desktop with KDE 4.1.2 Codenamed “Codename”

A “beta” release of version 4 of the Linux Standards Base (LSB 4).

Linux Vendors Increase Security Features

Building a Portable Application for Linux

Dell Launches Consumer Advertising for Ubuntu Linux PCs

Intel CEO: Linux to dominate MIDs

First dual-monitor LTSP 5 set-up?

OpenSuse was hit by a prolonged power outage

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Linux Mint is proud to announce that Linux Mint 5 Elyssa is now available on AMD64 for 64 bit processors.

In the future the x64 edition will be released at the same time as the Main and Light editions.

The purpose of the x64 edition is to offer the same desktop features as the Main edition but in a 64 bit environment. It aims to be as similar to the Main edition as possible. Due to the nature of its architecture, its package base and its origins it defers in the following ways:

• Linux Mint x64 Edition was forked from Ubuntu Hardy as opposed to Ubuntu Edgy for the Main Edition,
• Linux Mint x64 Edition comes with a java plugin implemented by OpenJDK, as opposed to Sun for the Main Edition.
• Linux Mint x64 Edition comes with Xchat instead of Xchat-Gnome
• Linux Mint x64 Edition comes with Flash 9 instead of Flash 10

More packages are available for i386 than they are for amd64 and the Main edition is also slightly more stable than its 64 bit equivalent. The Main edition only recognizes a maximum of 4GB RAM though and even on computers with less than 4GB RAM the performance gain provided by x64 over the Main edition can significantly enhance the user’s experience. Read the rest of this entry »