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Linux Mint 12 Has Been Released, Download Now

Softpedia is the first to announce that Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, unleashed a couple of minutes ago, November 23rd, the new and highly anticipated Linux Mint 12 operating system, dubbed Lisa.There's no official announcement on the Linux Mint website, yet the ISO images for Linux Mint 12...

23 November 2011
10:30 GMT

What Should You Expect from Linux Mint 12

Clement Lefebvre, the founder, project leader, developer and maintainer of the Linux Mint project, is working very hard these days to release an operating system that will enchant many Linux users. Long story short, the upcoming Linux Mint 12, dubbed Lisa, is an operating system based on the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Oc...

22 November 2011
14:01 GMT

Download Linux Mint 12 Release Candidate

Right after our first look aticle of Linux Mint 12, Clement Lefebvre proudly announced on his blog that the Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux Mint 12 operating system is available for download and testing. Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) RC is here for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and distributed as Live...

14 November 2011
03:40 GMT

First Look: Linux Mint 12

Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, announced a few days ago that the upcoming Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) operating system will feature a new desktop interface built on top of the GNOME 3 desktop environment. So, we've downloaded a development version of the Linux Mint 12 distribution and took it for ...

11 November 2011
15:01 GMT

NASA Drops Out of LISA, ESA Goes on Alone

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced in a recent statement that it will drop out of a joint project it had set up with the European Space Agency (ESA). The goal of the mission was to discover and analyze gravitational waves. These are ripples in spacetime that have been proposed under Albert...

19 April 2011
08:53 GMT

How Merging Black Holes Devour Stars

Astronomers propose a new way of monitoring merging black holes as they shred apart and consume new stars. They say that using an upcoming telescope mission could provide them with the ability to survey gravitational waves that are produced as these events unfold. Studies have revealed that black holes can be found a...

9 April 2011
06:03 GMT

LISA Could Find Missing Dimensions

A future telescope of the European Space Agency (ESA) could help explain some of the most tightly-kept mysteries in the Universe, such as for example whether gravitational waves exist or not. But the instrument may also test for the existence of vanishing dimensions other than the known three. Many theoretical physic...

23 March 2011
04:06 GMT

Gravitational Wave-Hunting Spacecraft Gets Laser Control System

The upcoming LISA mission that will be launched this decade finally got one of its most important components, the laser control system that will connect the three satellites in the program over millions of kilometers of space. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a project that will see the launch of thre...

7 March 2011
07:45 GMT

Guy Sells Dead Brother’s Apple Lisa 1 Computer for $15,000 on eBay

A person claiming to be the brother of an Apple staffer who had worked on the Lisa 1 development team has cashed in on his late sibling’s original Lisa 1 computer, nabbing himself some $15,000 on eBay. The seller described the machine as an early production model that still worked. He claims to be the you...

3 January 2011
05:37 GMT

LISA Mission Gets NRC 'Vote of Confidence'

The latest decadal report from the National Research Council (NRC) is highly supportive of a new space observatory mission called LISA, which is to analyze the Universe in search for gravitational waves.Discovering this elusive space phenomenon has thus far been unsuccessful, but experts believe that the Laser Interf...

20 August 2010
02:09 GMT

Claim – OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Out by Q1

This year's Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA) saw Apple's Director of Engineering of Unix Technologies, Jordan Hubbard, speak about the evolution of Mac OS X from large servers to embedded platforms. MacRumors points out to an interesting aspect within Hubbard's presentation sl...

19 November 2008
04:08 GMT

Did You Know: The Mac Is Not a Direct Descendant of the Apple Lisa

Around 1982, Steve Jobs (currently chief exec at Apple Inc.) was forced out of the Lisa project. While he went on to join the Macintosh project, the Lisa had been released to the public. Contrary to popular belief, the Macintosh is not a direct descendant of Lisa, although the similarities between the two systems wer...

18 September 2008
09:28 GMT

The Simpsons Hit & Run - Countdown Website

The Simpsons: Hit and Run is just two days from launch. Although the world isn't exactly going up in flames at the sound of the game's title, Electronic Arts has launched a countdown website similar to Rockstar's when they were prepping the launch for the GTA IV Debut Trailer. Stuff like this cracks o...

8 May 2007
05:54 GMT


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