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Linux Hackers Offer to Create Device Drivers for Free
Ask Linux users what they find most annoying about Linux, and many will complain about device drivers. While the vast majority of PC components and peripherals work with Linux, some don’t work at all, and others are marginal. A leading Linux kernel developer has come up with a solution. In a recent blog and e-mail…
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Microsoft Tries to Explain Away Outlook 2007 Controversy
Microsoft is trying to dampen criticism by explaining its controversial decision to unify the rendering and editing engines in Outlook 2007 and use only the Word 2007 engine, even though there are some HTML and Cascading Style Sheet attributes that the engine does not currently support. The move is a significant change from previous versions…
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Dual-Booting Vista and Linux
Editor’s Note: If you missed Part One of the series, you can read it here. Last time around, I described the HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7360n that I’m using for my Vista vs. Linux shootout. Getting the PC was the easy part. Getting Linux and Vista to live together on the same machine turned…
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Rollins Out; Michael Dell Returns as CEO
Dell, which has watched as rival Hewlett-Packard has drained away its once dominant market share, announced late on Jan. 31 that its namesake founder will return as the company’s CEO. Michael Dell will return as the company’s CEO immediately, the company said in a statement released Jan. 31. Kevin Rollins, who took over as CEO…
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Quantum-ADIC Channel Program Unified
Backup, archive and recovery vendor Quantum has completed the integration of its channel program with Advanced Digital Information Corp., five months after it acquired its high-end competitor. Since the acquisition in August 2006, Quantum, based in San Jose, Calif., continued with the two existing legacy channel partner programs, but promised a quick integration of the…
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Oracle Announces Upgrades to E-Bus, PeopleSoft, JDE, Siebel
NEW YORK—The historic Hudson Theatre was home to a new sort of show Jan. 31—more technology-focused than Broadway—focused—and with a little less fanfare. Oracle hosted its Applications Unlimited road show here in New York to unveil the next versions of its five major Enterprise Resource Planning suites: Oracle E-Business Suite 12, PeopleSoft Enterprise Suite 9.0,…
