Posts Tagged ‘ Microsoft ’

Google Chrome OS Raising Awareness of Open Source Software

I’m quite highly anticipating the release of Google Chrome OS – Google’s net book and appliance cloud operating system. There are a few main reasons behind this. Simplicity and Openness Note that I combine the two here. It is very important that both software user friendliness is combined with the nature of free and open source software to prevent device and
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Mono – Ubuntu Technical Board – Position on Mono and the integration of applications

I recently received the an e-mail from Scott James Remnant on behalf of the Ubuntu Technical Board, regarding their Position on Mono. Here is an extract. “…the Ubuntu Technical Board sees no reason to exclude Mono or applications based upon it from the archive, or from the default installation set. Since the Mono stack is already a
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Wine – Wine is not an emulator – it is a Windows compatibility layer

Wine is essentially a Windows compatibility layer for Linux, allowing Linux users to run Windows applications in a much more direct manner than full operating system virtualisation. More information about Wine is to come shortly. If you wish, you can visit the official Wine website to get more details about this excellent free piece of
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Uptime – How to find out how long your computer has been on – the uptime

In Windows, you can find your uptime via one of the following two methods commands. To enter these commands open a command prompt from the Start Menu or just execute cmd.exe systeminfo | find “Up Time” net statistics server (Note that this command displays actually shows the last boot time from which the uptime can be calculated) Uptime
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