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"The second and last release of Kiwi to be based on Ubuntu 7.10 is ready for downloading today. Since 7.10 there are a few changes: ..." -- Nota Bene: Kiwi is an Ubuntu derivative tailored for Romanian and Hungarian users.
Two years ago Ubuntu began supporting LPIA, or the Low-Power Intel Architecture. LPIA is i386, but with different compile-time optimizations. LPIA was in use by the Ubuntu Mobile project with Intel's recent mobile CPUs supporting this lower-power architecture. Tests we carried out earlier this year at Phoronix showed Ubuntu's LPIA-based MID spin can conserve 10%+ power.
As part of their openSUSE release series, Novell Open Audio has talked to Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel and Stephan Kulow about KIWI, openSUSE’s operating system imaging solution.
Ever jealously looked at the geeks carrying around their Linux system on a tiny USB stick? If the answer is yes you have probably also wondered about how to create one of these little gadgets for yourself.
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, the third maintenance update to Ubuntu’s 8.04 LTS release. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.
The idea of creating customized versions of an existing distribution is not new, but Fedora 7 took this idea to a next level by introducing an easy-to-use GUI and a wizard-like walk through for the single steps in the form of Revisor.
IT solutions companies have been generating lots of buzz regarding thin clients basically since the early 1990s, but have yet to really penetrate into many suitable environments.
I wrote an installer for KIWI-generated LiveCDs...It’s still in early development and has lots of hacks to make things work, but it does manage to install a working system onto your machine. The installation itself is really pretty simple.
A couple of weeks back, a small New Zealand-based company, OnlineGroups.Net, released the source code for its online collaboration platform, GroupServer. When a big company releases source code for anything, it's often termed a risky move. For a small company, the risks are more or less the same.
