Linux Becoming Mainstream?
Pre-installed Linux has been available on servers for some time now but for the first time ever, a major manufacturer will be offering Linux pre-installed on consumer products. Dell announced late in March that it would be offering Ubuntu Linux 7.04, codenamed ‘Feisty Fawn’, on selected desktops and notebooks.
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Traffic Shaping a la Bell
In the past few weeks, “traffic shaping” has hit the news with Bell being in the midst of trying to limit peer-to-peer file sharing on its network. Traffic shaping is a technology that limits how much bandwidth (bandwidth can be loosely thought of as the speed of an Internet connection) a certain application can use.
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