Tag: UBUNTU

It may not be top-secret or espionage-worthy, but the information we keep on laptops and smartphones is still something we all would like protected. Saved passwords, addresses, bank balances, friends' contact info -- all sorts of information could have potentially devastating effects in the hands of a crook. Large companies have long had the technology to remotely lock-down and wipe mobile ...

Dell has long made the vast majority of its money selling Windows-based PCs. In mid 2007, the company did start selling some computers pre-loaded with Ubuntu, but they were not heavily promoted, and the selection left something to be desired. It appears, though, that the company is prepared to push a little harder on behalf of the open-source OS. A new post on the Dell Ubuntu page extols the ...

Share It seems that every time Ubuntu gets an update there's talk about how the new version will finally usher in the era of user-friendly Linux and turn the open-source operating system (OS) into a serious competitor to OS X and Windows. We've been running the latest version, 10.04 (code-named Lucid Lynx), since it first hit beta in mid-March. While we have a hard time seeing it replace ...

Software Software When it comes to purchasing pre-loaded software with your computer, our advice is to avoid it at all costs. Most companies, like Dell and HP, will allow you to decline at least some of the crapware that comes loaded on a PC, but only Sony offers the option of getting an unmolested Windows 7 install. While it's tempting to have Microsoft Office and security software (a ...

Part of the problem with getting the American public to consider Linux a viable option to Windows or Mac OS X is the ridiculous number of varieties of distributions. Ubuntu, which we've covered before, just happens to be the most popular, but there is also SUSE, SlackWare, Debian, even Google's Android is built around Linux. This leads to confusion, but worse are the unnecessary, heavily ...

Linux, the free, open-source UNIX-based operating system used in trendy affordable computers such as the eeePC and the Zonbu, has been gaining huge ground over the past decade in terms of general usability, especially when compared to the competing (and decidedly not-free) products from Windows or Apple. Despite that, Linux is still lambasted as being unintuitive, overly complicated, and simply ...

The popular Linux distribution Ubuntu is making gains in some pretty important places, namely the French military police force National Gendarmerie. The government-run organization is planing to migrate all of its desktop PCs to Ubuntu by 2014, leaving the world of Microsoft behind it. The French National Assembly already switched all its PCs to Ubuntu in 2007, but its 1,200 desktops pales in ...

Of all the retailers out there, Wal-Mart probably wouldn't rate high on environmentalists' lists of green retailers. But,that's where you're going to have to go if you want to get your hands on a new self-titled "green" PC that will cost just $199. The Everex TC2502 gPC is a low-powered and limited-spec desktop computer that runs a version of Linux called Ubuntu rather than the much more ...

While Windows is king, and Apple is the media darling, it's time we all started to take Linux operating system (OS) a little more seriously. The often free and always open-source OS is either completely unknown to the mainstream, or thought of as something employed only by the super geek elite. But,there's nothing to be afraid of: If you've ever used a Mac or Windows computer before, you would ...

Dell is continuing to shake up its business model by announcing it will start selling two yet to be determined Dimension desktops through Wal-Mart and its wholesale outlet Sam's Club. Dell's market share has been in steady decline, and it was recently overtaken by Hewlett-Packard as the top PC maker. The sales through Wal-Mart will likely only make up a small portion of Dell's total sales, but ...

Dell announced in February that they will soon offer computers preloaded with Linux. Dell officially announced today that it has chosen the popular Ubuntu distribution (which this post is being written under) for its first foray into consumer-oriented Linux PCs. Linux is an operating system like Windows or OSX, but it's free and tends to have a lot of open-source, free software available for it. ...