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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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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Don’t diss the PC, man.
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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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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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It’s official - NVIDIA has extremely poor closed source drivers that do not work properly on Linux systems. The KDE 4 issue is a widely known problem amongst Linux users. I created the thread to raise awareness of those who were left in the dark after purchasing expensive, high end NVIDIA cards that do not [...]

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This is follow up to one of my previous posts on this topic.
It affects MSI and ASUS boards that have an American Megatrends (AMI) BIOS as well. The issues prevent Linux from functioning properly on these systems. Foxconn says they expect the update before the end of the week.
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This is a post from the Ubuntu Forums from a guy who wrote about why he left Linux. I felt a need to respond both there and here, just for my piece of mind.
Below is the thread he started, it’s currently 28 pages and I really only wanted to respond to his initial post so [...]

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Much like the fiasco over Daniel_K’s modded Creative drivers, the Internet community has once again given a voice to the angry people against the big companies. This time the company facing the wrath of Joe Public is Foxconn, which is alleged to have deliberately ‘sabotaged’ the BIOS on some of its motherboards to stop them [...]

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Garmin has posted Linux source code for its Nuvi 8xx and Nuvi 5xxx-series GPS navigation devices. The Nuvi 8xx offers a 4.3-inch, 480×272 display, and appears to be based on a Marvell PXA-3xx processor, Gnome Mobile Linux, and GeoClue location technology.
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This is the sort of this I used to dream about back in 1997 with my frustration with Windows had hit an all time high using Win98 trying to setup config.sys and that other damn file that I can’t remember to get a game to run. I spent hours tweaking the settings little by little [...]

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The ultimate collection of cheat sheets for linux users. Enough to fill up your whole wall with commands yielded by the geek gods!
Be sure to digg this so more people can have the opportunity to get ahold of all these in one place.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15272/1023/
by Stan Beer
Sunday, 11 November 2007
For any parent, myself included, setting your kids loose on the net is a daunting prospect. We have to do it because the net is a fact of life - it’s in our schools, the workplace, public libraries and in many if not most homes of the developed world. Therefore, [...]

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