Shop for Dell PCs featuring Ubuntu Linux

Last month Dell announced their partnership with Ubuntu, now finally the first batch of PCs featuring preloaded Ubuntu Linux is being sold at Dell’s Open site. So, let’s look at what they are offering? Currently they have 2 desktop PCs and 1 laptop. Desktop configurations as follows:
Dimension E520 N - $599
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E4300 (1.8GHz, 800 FSB)
Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

XPS 410 N - $849
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E4300 (2MB L2 Cache,1.8GHz,800FSB)
Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 DIMMs
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

and laptop configuration:

Inspiron E1505 N - $599
Intel® Pentium® dual-core proc T2080(1MB Cache/1.73GHz/533MHz FSB
Ubuntu Edition version 7.04
512MB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 DIMM
80GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive

These prices are for the default configurations, if you opt you can go for additional upgrades.

I think for the home and office user the specs are quite reasonable. But for power users, developers and such these specs must be upgraded.

May 25, 2007 | Filed Under Desktops, Laptops, Linux, Open Source | Leave a Comment 

Darwin Streaming Server Official Release - DSS 5.5.5

I always admired how Apple designed and made Open Source much easier for an ordinary user. It all started from Mac OS and to its server OS. This Streaming Server is one of the Apple Open Source version of their QuickTime Streaming Server. You can build it in Linux, Windows and of course Mac OS.

Open source version of Apple’s QuickTime Streaming Server technology that allows you to send streaming media to clients across the Internet using the industry standard RTP and RTSP protocols. Based on the same code base as QuickTime Streaming Server, Darwin Streaming Server provides a high level of customizability and runs on a variety of platforms allowing you to manipulate the code to fit your needs. Read more

May 16, 2007 | Filed Under Open Source | Leave a Comment 

How to make branded affiliate links?

People like John Chow already knows this and use it. It is cool to have your own branded affiliate links, isn’t it? So if you are inviting people to sign up for Agloco, you will give http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBW4103 link but imaging you can set this link as http://www.jusupov.com/go/agloco !

It’s very difficult to memorize http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBW4103 link, and it’s considerably easier to remember http://www.jusupov.com/go/agloco link.

So whow it is done? I will try to explain how this trick is done. You can use some scripting like php/javascript to do this, however the shorter way of doing this is via .htaccess file. You can find your .htaccess file in your web root directory. You can download and open it in your favorite text editing software and add your links. Read more

May 16, 2007 | Filed Under Open Source, internet | Leave a Comment 

Three different methods to move your MySQL database

When blogging you will face different kinds of issues, be it change of your hosting company, duplicating your blog database on your local computer to do testing and development. So questions arise on how to copy/move your database? Copying or moving blog files are very easy, all you need is to connect to your FTP and download the whole public_html or htdocs or www folder and that’s it! But database can be a little bit confusing for you… Read more

May 13, 2007 | Filed Under Open Source | 3 Comments 

Red Hat plans low cost Linux “Global Desktop” OS

What with the OLPC project and Intel planning to make cheap computing for the masses, we’ve got to wonder what the world was playing at up until now. As the horribly termed “emerging markets” start to emerge, Red Hat is getting into the low cost computing game with the “Red Hat Global Desktop,” a low requirement operating system and software package which was announced at the Red Hat Summit in San Diego. The system will include a range of productivity applications, management systems that work on a scale of 10 to 10,000, plus what the Red Hat guys call a “modern user experience”: fingers crossed that means no command lines. The Global Desktop is part of Red Hat’s involvement with the One Laptop Per Child project, but it’ll also be supported on Intel’s range of lower specification and cost computer line; if your wish is to replace Microsoft’s little OS.logo_rh_home.png

May 12, 2007 | Filed Under Linux, Open Source | Leave a Comment 

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