Archive for October 17th, 2007
dell linux team, ubuntu and retrospection
LXer had interviewed John Hull, manager of the Dell Linux Engineering Team (DLet) by e-mail. The interview reveals much about DELL`s satisfaction with it`s Ubuntu machines, what all DELL is doing to get Ubuntu running on all their hardware, and also what all has happened in these four months since DELL started vending Ubuntu pre-installed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Goobuntu (google`s modified Ubuntu)
During my random visits on various webpages on the internet, I found here that Google internally uses a Linux Distribution based on Ubuntu and they have named it as Goobuntu. While both Google and Mark have refuted the rumors about Google distributing Goobuntu to the public. And this should not happen either. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Google`s Linux Software repository
Google has a repository for distributing it`s own Linux applications. It also helps to stay up-to-date with the current releases of the various applications. It is good as in I could install picasa for linux through the apt. Here`s the Link to the repo:
http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/index.html
On Ubuntu, the repository can be added by issuing the [...]
