Linux will lead on the USB 3.0?

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What should your business know about USB 3.0? It's almost ready for the mass market, it's extremely fast -- and Linux will be the first OS to support it.

Last November, the USB 3.0 Promoter Group finished work on its "Super Speed" standard. USB 3.0 has been a long time coming, but it will be worth the wait: The new spec will deliver bus speeds up to 5 Gbps, or more than 10 times the bandwidth of a USB 2.0 connection.

It will be a while before USB 3.0 motherboards hit the market, but hardware vendors are already on board. NEC will begin mass-producing USB 3.0 host controllers this summer, and vendors at CES 2009 last January were busy showing off storage devices using the new standard.

You can also bet that USB 3.0 PCI Express add-in cards will hit the market fairly soon. Those PCIe x1 slots that sit unused on so many modern motherboards have a bus speed of around 5Gpbs, making them perfect for add-in USB 3.0 cards.

USB 3.0 will clearly have a dramatic impact on the storage market. The new standard, unlike USB 2.0, delivers more bandwidth than most conventional hard drives are capable of using. Newer solid-state storage devices, however, are capable of far higher bus speeds, making both USB 3.0 and the new SATA 6 Gbps standard extremely important for solid-state disk performance.

So much for the hardware. What about USB 3.0 driver support?

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Wubi -Ubuntu Installer

Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Are you curious about Linux and Ubuntu? Trying them out has never been easier!



> No need to burn a CD. Just run the installer, enter a password for the new account, and click "Install", go grab a coffee, and when you are back, Ubuntu will be ready for you.

> You keep Windows as it is, Wubi only adds an extra option to boot into Ubuntu. Wubi does not require you to modify the partitions of your PC, or to use a different bootloader, and does not install special drivers. It works just like any other application. Wubi is free of spyware and malware, and being open source, anyone can verify that.

> Wubi keeps most of the files in one folder, and if you do not like it, you can simply uninstall it as any other application

> Wubi and Ubuntu cost absolutely nothing (free as in beer), but yet provide a state of the art, fully functional, operating system that does not require any activation and does not impose any restriction on its use (free as in freedom).

Requirements
-256 MB memory
-Harddisk Space 5 GB harddisk space
-Operating System Windows 98,2000,XP,Vista

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gOS 3.1 Gadgets

gOS 3.1 Gadgets
Linux for the rest of us






The most beautiful and easiest to use Linux operating system on the market.

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PCLinuxOS 2009.1 Final Released

PCLinuxOS 2009.1 Final Released




This release features kernel 2.6.26.8.tex3, KDE 3.5.10, Open Office 3.0, Firefox 3.0.7, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, Ktorrent, Frostwire, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz-Fusion 3D and much more. We decided to use kde3-5-10 as our default desktop as we could not achieve a similar functionality from kde4. We will however offer kde4 as an alternative desktop environment available from the repository once we stabilize it. PCLinuxOS is an rpm based distribution utilizing apt-get with a Synaptic Software Manager frontend. In addition to the above PCLinuxOS comes with mklivecd GUI, a nice utility to build a custom live CD from your install. Install or remove what you want then remaster your own cd. Great for backups or to give to friends. PCLinuxOS is also known as as rolling release distribution. What that means is you install once and update it when new applications become available from our repository.

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Yet Another Linux Desktop - Linux Mint 7 (Gloria)

Linux Mint 7 (Gloria)


Linux Mint 7 (Gloria) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 7 is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 9.04 that has lots of packages in its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience even for Linux newbies.

You can get complete guide from here

Portable Software Collections

If you want a portable collection of softwares, try going to LiberKey. They have provided 3 compilations for users to choose from:


* LiberKey Ultimate (202 packages)

* LiberKey Standard (106 packages)

* LiberKey Basic (28 packages).

The total number of portable wares is 264 divided in categories such as Audio, CD, Education, File Management, Graphic, Internet and etc.



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You can also take a look at PortableApps and WinPenPack which offer portable apps as well.