DistroWatch, the popular Linux distribution-tracking website, publishes a page listing what it judges to be the ten most widely-used Linux distributions globally. This post provides a brief overview of each distribution on DistroWatch’s current “Top Ten Distributions” list, which range from the newbie-friendly Ubuntu to the sysadmin-oriented Gentoo.
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The Linux Foundation (LF) is offering live streaming of many of the keynotes and conference sessions from its LinuxCon conference, being held this week in Boston. For $20/day or $50 for the full August 10-12 event, you can view sessions live or access them later on demand.
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Syabas says it is nearly ready to ship the PopBox, which it announced in January. The $129 Internet-based A/V streaming set-top box (STB) will offer a variety of user-selectable media-streaming apps, but probably won’t include Netflix, Pandora, or Amazon PPV support at launch.
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Cloud Engines, maker of the Pogoplug, will soon add a new feature to users’ devices free of charge. Once the firmware update is rolled out later this summer, the low cost gadgets will be usable as low-power printer servers, accessible from anywhere via the Internet.
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Sonos offers an interesting family of high-quality devices capable of playing audio streamed from a variety of Internet and local sources wirelessly throughout the home. I’ve just spent a few weeks getting to know the Sonos ZonePlayer S5 and 90 streaming-music players. How well did they perform?
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