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Dell today confirmed that it was in talks with Google to ship Chrome OS on its netbooks. The company’s president of Greater China and South Asia, Amit Midha, said that Dell devices were in development although he didn’t add any detail. Google’s Chrome OS is a Linux-based web-focused operating system that is intended for ultra-portable laptops. Google is expected to … Read More

VLC, the Swiss army knife of multimedia viewing, has released a new version, 1.1.0. Already a top-class video player VLC 1.1.0 adds a number of new goodies, including WebM support and GPU-decoding. The highlights: GPU decoding on Windows Vista and 7, using DxVA2 for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 GPU decoding on GNU/Linux, using VAAPI for H.264, VC-1 and MPEG-2 DSP … Read More

A week later than originally scheduled, the FreeBSD team has issued a first release candidate (RC1) for version 8.1 of its popular Unix-like operating system. The final release of FreeBSD 8.1 was scheduled for July 9 bit with the current delay that may be pushed out by a week. Major changes include improvements to Solaris ZFS support and added support … Read More

Dell has this interesting page on it’s website about Ubuntu Linux Go Ubuntu ! http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=anavml

Japanese scientists are celebrating the successful deployment of their solar sail, Ikaros. Full story:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10293284.stm

Canonical is preparing a version of the Ubuntu OS for tablet computers as the company looks to extend its presence in the mobile space, a company executive said on Wednesday. Tablets with the Ubuntu OS could become available late in next year’s first quarter, said Chris Kenyon, Canonical’s vice president of OEM (original equipment manufacturer) services. The OS will be … Read More

Slackware Linux is still going strong. The Slackware Linux Project released Slackware 13.1 on May 24th.This is just a little by shy of the 17th anniversary of Slackware 1.0 and not quite a year after Slackware 13.0. Delve back into yesteryear with me; you’re in for a treat. Full story: http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/314666-slackware-131-a-linux-distro-that-gets-out-of-the-way

Red Hat’s CEO Jim Whitehurst declined to dismiss the possibility of buying out his company’s Linux rival Novell in a meeting with reporters in London today. Full Story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/03/red_hat_novell_acquisition_look_at_anything/

For too long there has been speculation as to when we will see “the year of the Linux desktop.” To such an extent, in fact, that it has become an almost laughable cliché. Recent developments in the adoption of Linux on especially mobile devices leads one to believe that the true year of the Linux desktop will happen with few … Read More

A new version of Axigen email server has been released with a much better licensing plan. Please look at http://www.axigen.com for more information.

How things have changed. Back in March 1991 (PDF), Stewart Alsop, venture capitalist and one-time editor-in-chief of InfoWorld, said, “I predict that the last mainframe will be unplugged on March 15, 1996.” In 2010, while IBM doesn’t break out its profits by individual server line, IBM’s systems and technology group, reported 1st quarter revenue of $3.4 billion. While IBM’s System … Read More

With 20,000+ employees, Google is set to save millions of dollars in licensing costs. Microsoft has really cryptic licensing rules, so coming up with an exact savings number would be almost impossible, but for sure it’s a huge chunk of change. Full post:  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-axes-windows-saves-millions/2165

DcData is now the South African partner and agent for the award winning Sawmill analytics suite ! Please look at the DcData products page for more information. Sawmill is The complete analysis and reporting solution for Web, Security, Email, Streaming Media, Syslog and Compliance.

DcData has now launched it’s official Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=110952872283132

Fedora’s latest release named “Goddard” is out: http://www.cioupdate.com/features/article.php/3884136/Fedora-13-Linux-Goddard-Takes-Flight.htm