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May200710

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Zattoo goes Linux

I’ve been using Zattoo for some time now, and it’s quite good, the best TV Streaming solution I know so far. The one downside for me was that it was still a Windows/Mac thing only, and my Operating System of choice (OpenSuSe) was being left out (as it happens too often). I’ve even installed VMWare just to use it, but it’s resource hunger made it quite unusable, so I had to resign and had to install Windows on one of my Computers. But that’s over now Zattoo has released a Client for Linux and guess what, OpenSuSe is one of the 3 supported distros ;)

What is surprising is that the Linux Client works by far better than the Windows client (I can’t compare it to the Mac client because I have no Mac), no image fragments, no sound skipping and the buffering takes less. And thus one reason less to have a Windows machine around :D

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Mar200720

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Linux runs on top of Windows? I don’t think so!

I usually try not to join the flame wars between supporters of one Operating System or another but this jewel is just too nice to miss it:
Hah….
Thanks Brad, for pointing it out :D
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Feb200725

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Dell has to go Linux?

I’m reallt thrilled about the post at the Ubuntu Blog:

So Dell emulated digg and put the idea to (good) use in letting people submit and vote for ideas to be implemented at Dell. The result was Dell Idea Storm. Now maybe Dell regrets it, just a wee bit. You see, the popular requests page right now is dominated by Linux-oriented requests. The most popular idea is for machines with Linux (Ubuntu/OpenSUSE/Fedora) pre-installed. Followed closely by an idea to distribute PCs with OpenOffice preinstalled. There are popular ideas that suggest PCs without Windows installed, PCs with open-source Linux drivers etc. Now, for Dell, it would be a small publicity setback if they do not act on at least a few of these ideas – them being the most popular ideas. It will be interesting to see how it develops. I hope Dell does not just seem to be attentive to customers, and actually gives them what they demand.
Could this finally be the end of half working Notebooks under Linux? That would be great news, especially after all the trouble I had (and still have) to get my Graphiccard running under OpenSuse 10.2. [via the Ubuntu Blog]

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Jan200718

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Flash 9 for Linux

Adobe has just released Flash 9 for Linux.

Adobe has made available Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux. Adobe Flash Player 9 delivers a consistent cross-platform experience and extends performance and features to the broadest set of developers and users to date. Additionally, Linux developers can create, test and deploy Rich Internet applications (RIAs) on the Linux platform using the free Adobe Flex 2 Software Developers Kit (SDK), Adobe Flash Player 9 and the free Flex Data Services 2 Express, as per a statement issued by the company.

According to Adobe, the release is officially tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 update 8, RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS) and Novell SUSE 9.x or 10.1. It should work with Firefox 1.5.0.7 and higher; Mozilla 1.7.x and higher; SeaMonkey 1.0.5 and higher, but with the right packages and some tinkering, you can get it to run on any 32 bit Linux platform.

Finally we can start wasting our time with those stupid Videos and Games on Linux too :D

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Dec200629

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openSuse Linux 10.2

Guess what I’m doing at 3:20 AM on this fine holiday? Right, I’m installing one of my three machines, once again. This time one of the discs had an … uhm … fatal failure, actually it has a hole through it’s middle. Fortunately its on my testing server, which anyway has become so noisy due to the CPU-Fan lately that I have to turn it off at night, and no important data has been lost. Since I have to install it anyway I figured it would be nice to give the new version 10.2 of openSuse a try. At first I have to say, that not too much changed since version 10.1, but then why would you change something that is working fine? The enhancements are in the tiny details, my favorite being that they replaced the old (slow) Software Management tool they had in YaST with a much faster ZDM. But thinking about it, it may actually be just as slow as the old one, except that the new one shows me some activity, progress bars keep filling at incredible speed, and it feels faster, this is what Windows was always good at, letting the user believe something is happening (even if it’s not…). Good news for the show offs out there too: the really great Xgl and Compiz enhancements are contained in any standard installation, letting you make the Mac OS users cry, really really simple (those rain effects are just to die for). Great news for developers too: Eclipse is there with it’s Calisto 3.2 version, which I was really hoping for. Ok, by now the installation is finished and I’m looking forward to test it as a server, I’m already using the Desktop version for about a week on my development machine. Hope to see some of you in Linux-Land soon ^^
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