It’s only taken too many yeard for this. ‘Bout time Broadcom. I’ve been using an Atheros chipset for a couple years so I don’t really need those drivers now. Thanks though really.
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Linux has had a hate/hate relationship with Broadcom. Linux users need Broadcom Wi-Fi drivers. Broadcom does a lousy job of supporting Linux. Now, a [...]

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One of the features Mint has been lacking as a family desktop is the ability for parents to prevent their children from accessing certain websites. Parental control is easy to set up in Microsoft Windows and we got a lot of feedback from people who migrated to Linux and who missed this feature.
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197 HORSEPOWER!!! If I weren’t such a Harley Davidson fan, I’d have to get one of these Yamaha’s. I always loved the original V-MAX but this is just brutally AWESOME!!!
http://www.inkedmag.com/reviews/drive/detail/94/

To The Max
By George Polgar You couldn’t have fit more muscle on the original Yamaha V-MAX. With its massive V4 engine crammed into the frame, the [...]

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The long rumored, long awaited “Eee PC Killer” from Dell, now called the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, is now shipping! The Windows XP version, available now, costs $399. The Ubuntu Linux version, available in “a few weeks,” will cost just $349! These prices are actually much lower than ASUS’s for comparable systems.
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http://www.nraila.org/obama/
The presidential primary season is finally over, and it is now time for gun owners to take a careful look at just where apparent nominee Barack Obama stands on issues related to the Second Amendment. During the primaries, Obama tried to hide behind vague statements of support for “sportsmen” or unfounded claims of general support [...]

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http://www.motorcycledaily.com/04august08_2009hd_vrod&touring.htm
By Dirck Edge

Beautiful Sonoma, California was the staging area for our test of several 2009 Harley-Davidson models. Our focus was on the significantly redesigned touring bikes and the stunning new V-Rod Muscle.
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Don’t diss the PC, man.
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Vista may be what Microsoft sells, but XP remains popular. August 18, 2008 (Computerworld) More than one in every three new PCs is downgraded from Windows Vista to the older Windows XP, either at the factory or by the buyer, a performance and metrics researcher said today.
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The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Canonical has become a member of the Foundation.
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gOS–a company known for its debut in the US$199 Wal-Mart gPC and Netbooks–announced the details of gOS 3 Gadgets, the newest version of its Linux OS for consumers.The main feature of gOS 3 Gadgets is its ability to instantly launch Google Gadgets for Linux on start-up, allowing users access to more than 100,000 Google Gadgets [...]

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If this has any validity to it then it’s INCREDIBLE NEWS!!!
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Australian scientists are hoping to cure leukemia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis after their breakthrough discovery of how to stop killer blood cells growing. The team has unlocked the secrets behind the protein which controls the way the blood cancer cells spread when it is damaged [...]

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At the LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco, a 451 Group analyst said that companies are adopting free, community-driven Linux distributions like Ubuntu and CentOS. We look at what this means for the commercial Linux landscape and the future of Ubuntu.
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A fast, fast-booting, implementation of GNOME aimed at netbooks and older hardware has emerged, and shows “a lot of promise.” LXDE has already stacked up a heap of distribution partners.
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I’ve been using this beta on one of my testing laptops and I’ve been very impressed thus far. Installation was a snap, just like Ubuntu. Give it a shot if you like Google’s stuff.
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If you haven’t heard of gOS yet then you’re missing out. Its an Ubuntu based version of Linux that relies heavily on [...]

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A nice resource for new and intermediate Linux users. Also a great magazine.
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Excellent news for Linux lovers around the world.
For the first time, IBM and leading Linux distributors Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat will join forces globally with their hardware partners to deliver Microsoft-free personal computing choices with Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony in the one billion-unit desktop market worldwide by 2009.
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A promising looking entry into the EEEPC market segment. GAME ON!!!
Lenovo (former IBM OEM manufacturer) also entered the fast growing Netbook market with their Ideapad S10. Like the Eee PC 1000 this Netbook also features a 10-inch widescreen LCD. In the US it will be available with Windows XP Home & at other parts of [...]

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Looks great I can’t wait to get one of the new EEEPC’s for using while I’m on the road. I’ll put Ubuntu on it as soon as I get it.
A modified version of the latest Ubuntu for the EEEPC.
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The latest OpenSuse brings out SUSE from the dark.
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Another follow up from a previous posting.
Only a week after the bad press coverage regarding the Linux-related bugs in a number of motherboards released by Foxconn (Which turned out to be the AMI BIOS that several board makers use), Foxconn is the first vendor out with a publicly released test patch that fixes the bulk [...]

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