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Current State of Intel Video, Ubuntu, and Composited Desktops
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| The most interesting aspect of the project,
| from my perspective, is Mutter. Mutter is
| essentially Metacity with the Clutter
| technologies baked into it. As Joe Gregorio
| noted back at OSCON, Clutterâs a popular
| project these days, and for good reason.
| Built by the Intel-acquired OpenedHand team,
| among others, Clutter offers aesthetically
| pleasing, thoroughly modern graphics
| capabilities that, even better, are fast.
| Indeed, of the available compositing options
| for my hardware, the only one that performs
| adequately is the next generation option in
| the Clutter based GNOME Shell. That is most
| unusual; the bleeding edge stuff is
| typically very slow.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2009/11/04/intel-video/
A few tips for dialup users running Linux
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| Most people tend to forget that there are
| still hundreds of millions of computer users
| worldwide still connected to the Web using
| 56K modems, having to dial up every time
| they want to enjoy the Internet experience.
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http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/dialup.html
Recent:
Microsoft's biggest threat: Linux
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| Now, here are some questions about these supposedly major-domo competitors to
| Microsoft, and I'm sure, that you can easily guess the answers:
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| 1) What was it that made Google such a serious net platform player, with
| enough power and flexibility to serve the world's Internet needs?
|
| 2) What was it that made netbooks possible in the first place?
|
| 3) What gives netbook manufacturers enough leverage to screw Microsoft down
| on OEM licence costs?
|
| 4) What is it that makes products like Amazon's Kindle and hundreds of other
| e-book, portable media and mobile Internet gadgets possible, all by eschewing
| Microsoft's embedded OSes?
|
| The answer of course, is Linux.
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| Without Linux, there would be no Google. No startup could afford to
| build a platform on hundreds of thousands of servers which required
| either proprietary hardware (ie, Sun servers, circa 1998) or proprietary
| system software (ie, Microsoft's Windows Server.) Further, how
| comfortable would Google be in competing with Microsoft in the Internet
| space, if Microsoft 'owned' its server platform, the basis of Google's
| ongoing business?
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10012172o-2000630136b,00.htm
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