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Desktop search comparison: Beagle vs. Tracker
Author: Ben Martin
Beagle and Tracker are projects that allow you to index your files so you can quickly search filesystems. Both projects started out...
FOSS app eases the pain for San Diego community clinic
Author: Marjorie Asturias-Lochlaer
Hospitals aren't normally known for lightning-fast moves, but when you're a community-based institution tasked to care for underserved communities, sometimes you have...
Why Microsoft cozied up to open source at OSCON
Author: Nathan Willis
Last month at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON), it seemed like Microsoft was everywhere you looked, avouching its interest in open source....
gDesklets – Desklets for your Desktop in openSUSE
gDesklets is another great tool like Google Gadgets for bringing mini programs called desklets such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or...
Ask Linux.com: Quotas, Java, and Linux in the car
Author: Linux.com Staff
In the most recent chapters of the ongoing Linux.com forums saga, readers discuss implementing disk storage quotas, juggling primary partitions, launching uncooperative...
GNOME Foundation’s Stormy Peters: Trust and empower
Author: Tina Gasperson
Stormy Peters recently became the executive director of the GNOME Foundation, where she is already working to raise public awareness of the...
SSD vs. SATA benchmarks, round 2: Server applications
Author: Ben Martin
Yesterday I presented Bonnie++ and IOzone benchmarks for a solid state drive in a client machine and discussed the relative merits of...
SSD vs. SATA RAID: A performance benchmark
By Ben Martin Without going into details, SSDs may use single-level cell (SLC) or multi-level cell storage, with SLC drives typically offering better performance.SSDs...
Roku’s Netflix Player: a hands-on review
Author: Nathan Willis
It's small and silent, sports an array of ports on the back but only one tiny white LED on the front, and...
SplashTop “Instant-On Linux” Gets Hacked
Author: JT Smith
Last October we were the first to deliver a full-review of DeviceVM's SplashTop which was an instant-on embedded Linux distribution at the...