Stories about: Mandrake

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    Debian Linux cluster beats supercomputer in tsunami warnings 13/03/2008 14:23:13

    The Philippine government's official weather service, PAGASA, has replaced its SGI supercomputer with a clustered Debian Linux system that can process information vital to protection against typhoons, floods, droughts, tsunamis and other wild weather conditions at a fraction of the cost.
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    Storage goes Wi-Fi with Iomega NAS 04/05/2006 08:00:15

    Iomega has become the latest company to announce a network-attached storage (NAS) box with built-in wireless access.
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    Not magnifique 01/03/2006 11:18:57

    I used Mandrake Linux for years before switching to Fedora Core and then to Ubuntu Linux last spring - around the same time Mandrake, which is based in France, bought a Brazilian Linux distributor called Conectiva and renamed itself Mandriva.
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    Mandriva Linux 2006 08/02/2006 07:01:38

    Mandriva Linux 2006 feels very much like a natural evolution of earlier Mandrake releases--in both good and bad ways. As we tested the PowerPack edition of Mandriva 2006, we were disappointed to find many of the same rough edges that drove us away from Mandrake still present in this new incarnation.
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    Easy, breezy badger 13/01/2006 10:58:28

    Unable to stay away from his favourite flavour of Llinux, Matthew Newton checks out Ubuntu 5.10 - the breezy badger.
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    Dual-bootable; more doable 11/12/2005 11:37:03

    Linux is great, but sometimes a guy's gotta play games. Here's how to set up a quicker Dual-Boot to get you back into windows.
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    Getting beta all the time 27/07/2005 09:59:59

    One of the many neat things about free software is that you get to play with stuff before it's officially done. Matthew Newton sinks his teeth into Sun Microsystems' latest.
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    Running Linux on a shoestring 05/07/2005 15:37:43

    Part two of Matthew Newton's recommendations for the Linux neophyte covers the best distro for the more confident operator.
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    Burn, network and search with Gnome 16/06/2005 14:03:46

    Our free software guru looks at new software for his desktop - some of which he can run, some of which he can't.
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    System Update with YUM 11/02/2005 16:01:30

    Keeping your Linux system up to date with the latest security fixes and software updates can be a real pain. But it doesn't have to be.
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    Making Dual-Booting More Livable 05/11/2004 10:48:35

    Six years ago this month Linux became my primary operating system; it happened almost overnight. The startup company I had been working for imploded. I was at home, working on my resume, when my Windows PC crashed for the umpteenth time. I knew a bit of Unix (when I first started using the Internet, my only means of access was a Unix shell account) and was not at all intimidated by the idea of installing something Unix-y on my PC. I took the plunge and never looked back.
 
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