Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 4 was released today, with impressive new features like GVFS, PolicyKit, and PulseAudio. We put it to the test so we could give you a first look.
Category: Technology news
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World’s Fastest NAND Developed by Intel and Micron
How do 200MBps reads and 100MBps writes in a storage device sound to you? Pretty sweet if you ask us.
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Australia getting more broadband for its buck
Australian broadband users are getting more out of their Internet connections although prices have remained static, a report from the Internet Industry Association (IIA) has found.
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Ubuntu 7.10 on the Gorgeous DELL XPS M1330
Now Ubuntu 7.10 is making it’s way to our XPS 1330 laptop and Dell will begin offering Ubuntu in Spain. Thank you to the Linux community for the support. Your purchases and your commitment is the driving force behind this expansion, and is the key to more in the future.
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Blu-ray players grab 93 percent of market after Warner went
Granted, it’s hard to put too much stock in just a week or two of data, but if this and the recent media sales numbers (85 percent) becomes a trend, maybe this won’t be such a slow death for HD DVD after all.
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MacBook Air Unboxing Photos and Wireless Booting
The first unboxing photos for the MacBook Air come from what appears to be a remote Macworld Expo presentation in Japan. The pictures show that they received their demonstration MacBook Air in the retail packaging.
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FlyBack: a “Time Machine” backup utility for Linux
how to install and configure flyback
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Intel Releases LatencyTop 0.1
“The Intel Open Source Technology Center is pleased to announce the release of version 0.1 of LatencyTOP, a tool for developers to visualize system latencies. Slow servers, skipping audio, jerky video – everyone knows the symptoms of latency. But to know what’s really going on in the system, what’s causing the latency, and how to fix it…
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Time Warner Cable’s plan to kill Apple TV
Time Warner wants to charge customers by bandwidth, meaning it could cost up to $30 download an HD movie over Apple TV.
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New Blu-ray 2.0 spec makes PS3 the most future-proof player
With the sudden and unexpected announcement from Warner that the studio would be abandoning HD DVD titles in favor of Blu-ray, it seemed to many observers that the high-def format war was all over, bar the shouting.