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Parted Magic 4.4 Adds Dial-Up Networking and Sound Support

Patrick Verner announced the release of Parted Magic 4.4, a Linux distribution that aids users in hard drive partitioning and data rescue. This version features a special program for dial-up networking, sound support through ALSA, Unionfs compression to reduce RAM usage, SSH server initialization upon boot and, last ...

13 August 2009
08:10 GMT

PC/OS 2009.3 Fixes a Lot of Hardware Issues

Yesterday marked the release of PC/OS 2009.3, announced on the distribution's website by maintainer Roberto J. Dohnert. This version improves the hardware compatibility of the 2009v2 series, featuring all the regular and security updates that appeared after the release of PC/OS Maintenance Pack 3. This latest r...

11 August 2009
07:11 GMT

Symbian Limited Taken Over by Nokia

Yesterday was a very big day for Nokia, turning into a coronation day for all the hard work and the planning that had been going on for quite some time. The official announcement was that Nokia had finally completed its offer for the acquirement of Symbian. This means that the Finnish company has finally satisfied al...

3 December 2008
04:00 GMT

Mimique Phone Concept, Touchscreen for Kids

"Mimique" is the name of a recently unveiled mobile phone concept that should be a response to the all-serious PDA-like devices that conquered the market in the last years. Viewed from the back, the Mimique looks like a toy with an external antenna and rounded edges. Viewed from the front, the handset still looks lik...

19 May 2008
05:55 GMT

OLPC Calms Down the Open-Source Developer Community

The One Laptop Per Child charity organization led by Nicholas Negroponte seemed to have terminated its business with Linux in favor of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. The move raised waves of protests among open source developers, and the very purpose of the organization was questioned. The large number...

7 May 2008
06:31 GMT

Build Yourself a Surface Computer for Only $500

Microsoft's revolutionary Surface computers have already hit the shelves of a few selected companies such as AT&T and it seems that this kind of approach will revolutionize the way we interact with our computers. The extremely intuitive software teams up with a natural user interface (the hand) to put all the ne...

6 May 2008
03:38 GMT

VIA Goes Open-Source, Embraces Linux

Taiwanese chip manufacturer VIA has announced a new project aimed at supporting the open-source development community in writing software for the company's processors and chipsets. The company has also announced its official VIA Linux website that will welcome its first visitors later this month.When the website...

9 April 2008
09:29 GMT

The Auto-Replicating 3D Printer, Now Available for Free

The RepRap project managed to give birth to something that you might call a printer only if you think outside the box. The RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper) device is able to replicate and update itself whenever it is necessary. In order to update itself, the unit prints its own parts.According to software develo...

8 April 2008
09:01 GMT

China Universities Join Sun's SPARC Partnership Program

Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems signed an educational, three-year partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Education. The new agreement aims at improving the quality of education in chip design using Sun's technology included in the Sparc processors. The agreement stipulates that at least 100 professors wil...

27 February 2008
03:02 GMT

AMD to Release Additional R600 GPU Specs

AMD is reported to have released the programming specifications of the M76 and RS690 graphics processors. Once the information is widely available, it will help the free software community to figure out the inner mechanisms of the two graphics processors. Until now, only the RadeonHD developers were to receive this t...

5 January 2008
03:41 GMT


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