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This article was written on January 17, 2007 by CyberNet.

In October of 2006 we saw one of my favorite Linux releases get unveiled: Fedora Core 6. It was a significant improvement in speed over the previous versions which I found to be nearly unusable with my hardware. Actually, what I’ve been playing with lately is the Fedora Core 6 Live CD that was just released toward the end of December, and this is a great way to see how much you like Fedora.

The future does look bright for Fedora with version 7 just a few months away. April 26, 2007 appears to be the current release date for Fedora 7 if all goes according to plan, but more often than not a release schedule doesn’t turn out as expected. For just having 6 months between releases I do have to say that it seems pretty ambitious:

• The release will now be known as Fedora 7 (without the Core) because they are combining both the Core and Extras.
   
• They will have 3 separate releases for Fedora:
  Fedora Desktop: This is what you would probably expect from a Fedora release.
   
  Fedora KDE: If you prefer to use KDE you’ll probably want to use this since it will include the K Desktop Environment. This will be the flavor of Fedora that I choose.
   
  Fedora Server: One of the examples they give where this would be useful is “Bill needs to set up a DNS server, and his boss told him to use FSS; Bill has no Linux/Unix experience but is a proficient admin of that other OS.” It will be really interesting to see what this evolves into because Fedora is what we use on our server and it would be nice to have a website optimized version of the operating system.
   
• Improved wireless support.
   
• Better startup and shutdown times.
   
• Fast user switching so that users don’t have to logout to change users.
   
• Both a Live CD and DVD will be available.
   
• And there is much more…

Next Tuesday, January 23, we should see the first pre-release of Fedora 7 become available. All of the features won’t be implemented until February 20 and then after that the primary focus will be on fine tuning all of the new stuff. With Ubuntu 7.04 expected just one week before Fedora 7 it should be interesting to see the two Linux distributions go head-to-head with their milestones.

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Invest in Knowledge is a new, innovative – patent pending – initiative introduced by Kirtas in conjunction with the company’s Digitize on Demand program and retail Web site. The program allows anyone to subsidize the digitization of the world’s knowledge one book at a time.

Anyone who purchases a book to be digitized, through the Invest in Knowledge initiative, from Kirtasbooks.com will receive a reprint of that book, as well as 5% of all future sales of that book through that web site. Consumers can invest in as many books as they would like.

In case you haven’t been apprised of the situation, your addiction to texting and email is ruining your relationship… with god. According to Vincent Nichols, head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, modern friendships built around (or involving) heavy SMS volley, electronic mail correspondences, and social networking sites create “transient relationships” which put users at the risk of suicide. Yes, suicide. According to the British man of the cloth, using electronic communication to build friendships is causing humanity to lose “the ability to build interpersonal communication that’s necessary for living together.” Sure, it may sound like heavy FUD talk, but there is sense in some of his points. For instance, the Archbishop of Westminster believes that social networking sites encourage people to concentrate on their number of friends rather than build actual relationships, and they tend to view that number as a commodity. Anyone who’s seen the growth of Facebook and MySpace shouldn’t have trouble making that connection, but when it comes to SMS and email, your friendship has likely moved on, and lumping that kind of one-to-one communication in with the broad relationships of social networking sites seems like an unfair characterization. We put the question to our typically calm and even-keeled commenter community — are we doomed, or what?

Filed under: Cellphones, Internet

Head of Roman Catholic Church in England warns against the dangers of SMS, email, and social networking originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The ASUS Eee Keyboard is thin, sleek, and has a touchscreen pad. This do-it-yourself is bulky, uses a green backlight, and has instead a wireless mouse and numpad. Still, there’s something magical and all kinds of wonderful about this home project, essentially an Eee PC 900 shoved into a Sven Multimedia EL 4002 keyboard. All you need is a VGA cable hooked up to a monitor and you’re officially good to go. Itching to recreate this beaut for yourself? Hit up the read link for a plethora of in-process screenshots and some commentary from its maker.

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

DIY Eee Keyboard is big, beautiful, and highly coveted originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For all intents and purposes, HP’s Compaq Presario CQ60 is a pretty unremarkable laptop — but slap a $300 price tag on it like Walmart has done, a price comparable to most netbooks on the market, and that reframes the entire conversation. Computer Shopper has gotten some hands-on time with the machine, and while not spectacular, it seems to outperform Intel Atom-based machines. You’re still not gonna be able to do much more than check your email and browse the web, though, and the tradeoff for having a 15.6-inch display and DVD burner is a bulkier, less travel-friendly form factor. Still, this seems to do an apt job at filling in that gap between netbook and laptop, and we’re sure someone out there will appreciate or feeling nostalgic over that modem jack.

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HP Compaq’s $300 laptop reviewed, makes strong case to bypass netbook originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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