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ZDNet is reporting that Canonical is intending to make the next release of Ubuntu, 12.04, a LTS (Long Term Support) release with intention of then expanding Ubuntu beyond desktops and laptops into smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, with a target of 2014 for an all-platform release. Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, in an interview said, "This is a natural expansion of
For several years, I've had an original Buffalo LinkStation NAS as my main fileserver. Being on 24x7, it's gone through several fans and at least one hard disk, but it's now time to retire it in favour of a LinkStation Duo which will give me more space, RAID capabilities and faster transfer speeds. Naturally, as my main fileserver, it's backed
We look at five online backup solutions to keep your data safe. Carbonite, MyPCbackup, Mozy, Dropbox and iBackup
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I recently upgraded my home network from 100 Mb/s to 1 Gb/s by replacing the switches. The main house switch is an unmanaged 1U rack-mounted switch, with a second desktop switch. Out of pure interest, I took the opportunity to do a little bit of speed testing to see how much of a difference upgrading the switches made in terms
OpenSuSE 11.4 was released back on 11 March so this weekend I took the plunge and upgraded my main PC from 11.3 to 11.4. And less than two hours later, I had the best ever SuSE running on my PC. Here's how I got on... SuSE offer two methods of upgrading, the first being an on-line update and the second
The latest version of OpenSuSE Linux, 11.4, has just been released and it's chock full of new features. The replacement for OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, gets its first major outing, KDE gets bumped to 4.6 and Gnome comes in at 2.32. There's a also a pile of updates to applications, including Empathy, RhythmBox, Amarok, Totem, Evince and Shotwell. For developers, GTK 3