Archive | Feb, 2011

Canonical release Certified Component & PC Catalogs

Feb 11th, 2011No Comments

How many times have you ever been asked which components or complete systems will work properly with Linux? .. Well the answers may have just become easier to find, at least for Ubuntu.

Canonical (the company behind the Ubuntu project) have just released its Component Catalog , a database of more than 1300 components from 161 manufacturers that are “certified” to work with Ubuntu. The searchable database can be viewed by manufacturer or component type.

They have also released a searchable Ubuntu-certified hardware database of Laptops, Desktops, Servers, and Netbooks that have “all been awarded the status of Certified or Ready for Ubuntu”.

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Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) released

Feb 7th, 2011No Comments

DebianAfter 2 years of constant development, the Debian Project announce the release of their new stable version 6.0 (code name Squeeze). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours, Debian GNU/Linux, and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced as a technology preview.

Debian 6.0 includes lots of updated applications, new features and improvements including over 10,000 new packages like the browser Chromium, the monitoring solution Icinga, the package management frontend Software Center, the network manager wicd, the Linux container tools lxc and the cluster framework Corosync.

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