Linux can boot faster if a PC’s BIOS is replaced by an open BIOS. Among other benefits, open BIOSes can save the time wasted by proprietary BIOS legacy support for MS-DOS and other unnecessary functions.
Author: Kristin Powell
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Toyota ‘World of Warcraft’ Ad
“Did you see me lay down the law? I’m the lawgiver”
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CRAZY Yamaha Tesseract four-wheeled motorcycle concept [pics]
I know, “four-wheeled motorcycle” doesn’t make sense, but you’d never mistake this thing for a car. As the post author says, it looks like a Transformer half transformed.
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Torvalds irate over Linux Smack
Linus Torvalds has launched a blistering attack on security programmers who object to adding the Smack application to the upcoming 2.6.24 Linux kernel.
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Big bang V8 Supercar farewell for grand old lady in 2008
Sydney
’s longstanding Oran Park Raceway will be farewelled in grand style next year when it closes the 2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series as part of a special tribute to one of the oldest race circuits in Australia. -
The Human LCD – Amazing
South Korea: boys cheering for their soccer teams. The most amazing thing is that they do this with their CLOTHES (not holding up cards). They have a jacket that is one color on the back, one on the front, and that they can open or close to show a third color shirt on the inside. One school has also figured out how to use their pants.
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Revolutionary New Panel Now Available in Ubuntu 7.10
Gimmie is a unique desktop organizer and panel replacement for the GNOME desktop environment. The easiest way is to use Gimmie is as a panel applet in the GNOME panel, but there is also a stand-alone version as well. Gimmie is even being considered for the next version of GNOME. In Ubuntu 7.10, the Gimmie panel applet is very simple to install.
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LG unveils Voyager to “kill the iPhone”
WATCH OUT…It’s the iPhone Killer. MMM maybe not!
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Vixta:The Vista Nemesis!
Vixta.org is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed to be user-friendly and eye-catching, similar in look and feel to Windows Vista. Trying to bring linux to the “masses”, not just sysadmins
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The Next Leap for Linux
Until recently, major PC makers shied away from Linux. Now the industry is watching as Dell is selling two Linux-equipped desktop models and a notebook PC.