Tag: Linux
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Fedora Core 6 is Available
As scheduled, Fedora Core 6 was released on October 24th, 2006. I’ve upgraded a Dell PowerEdge to FC6 but that was after creating a bootable CD. Apparently, the diskboot.img that is used to create bootable USB flash drives wasn’t working for me. Upgrading FC5 to FC6 had a few issues like an i586 kernel being…
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Fedora Core 6 Delayed Again
Take a look at the Fedora Core 6 Draft Schedule. They’ve delayed general release by two more days. The original release date was Oct. 10th (I believe this was the initial date), then Oct. 17th, and now Oct. 19th. I’m anxiously waiting to see if I can install FC6 on my MacBook using an external…
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Lenovo and Novell Want a Ransom for Linux
I just spent 15 minutes on the phone with Lenovo trying to get information on their ThinkPads preloaded with SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. I am very surprised at Lenovo’s half-hearted attempt at preloading Linux on ThinkPads. As I mentioned in this post, Lenovo and Novell announced the preloading of SuSE Linux on the ThinkPad T60p.…
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ThinkPad–now with Suse Linux – CNET News.com
Novell and Lenovo are teaming up on a new ThinkPad laptop with Novell’s Suse Linux operating system preinstalled. Hopefully, the price doesn’t start at $3099 as stated on CNET. read more | digg story
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Lenovo to preload Linux on T60p
Couldn’t Lenovo have announced this in May? It is so tempting to think if I could dual-boot SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 ( preloaded and supported by Lenovo – potentially with all the “ThinkPad Experience” applications like “Access Connections”, “Power Manager” and other utilities available on Windows ) and a version of OS X that…