Many Linux users who tracked each step in the endless saga surrounding the Windows 8 UEFI Secure Boot scheme were highly disappointed a few weeks ago to hear that a promised workaround from The Linux Foundation is delayed. Last year, in the post "Will Windows 8 Lock Linux Out of PCs?," I discussed a Microsoft methodology for ultra-fast booting of
Several familiar names cropped up in the news the last few days. The Mint team finishes out their lastest family tree and the Slax guys has rushed out a couple of bug-fix updates to the recently released 7.0. And KNOPPIX got an update too. Linux Mint 14 KDE Clement Lefebvre announced the release of Linux Mint 14 KDE edition yesterday.
Things have been a bit busy in the Linux world this week. Besides openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 2 being released, ROSA Desktop.Fresh 2012 rolled off the assembly line, if not your tongue. Mageia released their lastest version 3 developmental ISO, better late than never. Linux Mint saw yet another spin release, this time the Xfce version and Gentoo marked the end
If you turned the clock back about four years from now, you would have found many people saying that the Android mobile OS would never successfully compete with Apple’s iOS, simply because all the good apps are built for Apple’s platform. Fast-forward today, and Android is a sterling success, largely because of the rich ecosystem of apps that users have
Ever since OStatic’s inception, we’ve been fans of the Piwik online analytics application, which is a free, open source alternative to tools like Google Analytics. For example, we discussed Piwik in our roundup of open source tools aimed at web developers. When it comes to doing web analytics, it’s beneficial to get as many views of your data as possible,
If you are a user of Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service, you may be happy to know that Amazon’s Instant Video app is now optimized and available for the iPhone and iPod touch. However, Amazon Instant Video requires that users have an Amazon Prime membership in order to stream selected movies to their iOS device.
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The number of shopping days left until Christmas is dwindling rapidly. So, assuming you celebrate this religious and consumerist holiday, you need to hurry if you want to buy the right gift for the right person. Thankfully shopping doesn’t have to be the nightmare it once was, simply because the number of options open to most of us has increased