Recent Articles
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ASCII’s Journey to India
ASCII Group, a U.S.-based collective of small-business VARs and systems integrators, has launched an India affiliate—ASCII Group India—to connect with U.S. vendors with on the subcontinent. The Indian organization, a partnership between ASCII Group, of Bethesda, Md., and Cyber Learning, a Washington-based IT training advocate, aims to bring U.S. education and training standards to the…
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Roll Your Own Linux
So you want a Linux that’s set up with just the applications you want—no more, no less. What do you do? Well, an expert Linux user does it himself. But not everyone’s a Linux legend. For the rest of us, there are two good choices. There’s a low-end personal option: Instalinux.com’s free service, SystemDesigner. There’s…
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Intel Eyes Quad-Cores in Q4
High-end desktop PCs will sport quad-core processors from Intel as the fourth quarter gets under way. The Santa Clara, Calif., company, which pulled forward the launch of its “Kentsfield” quad-core desktop chip from the first quarter of 2007 into the fourth quarter of 2006, is still several months from launching the chip. However, it’s now…
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What’s the Most Popular Linux Desktop?
The results of DesktopLinux.com’s 2006 Desktop Linux Market survey are in, and the votes are all tallied. This first article of a series offers a perspective on how the various desktop Linux distributions fared, and why. Before jumping into what the survey of almost 15,000 Linux users revealed, though, I should point out a few…
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Django: Python on a Plane
The Django Web framework makes it easier for Python developers to create Web applications more quickly and with less code, said the lead developer of the open-source project. Indeed, the Django framework is known as the Web framework “for perfectionists with deadlines,” as the technology comes out of a newspaper operation where its developers created…
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Tech Data Partners with XenSource
Distributor Tech Data announced Aug. 29 that it will begin distributing XenSource’s XenEnterprise server virtualization platform, marketing it to VARs interested in jumping on the consolidation trend. The distributor’s entry into the virtualization market could be a boost to the technology, especially in the SMB (small and midsize business) area, where Tech Data has traction…
