Ubuntu on Pilot Light: wattOS Beta 3
Jul 13, 2009The goal of wattOS is simple and useful: to build a Linux distro that uses little energy.
more »How About the Good Old Days? Dustin Kirkland's Ubuntu Museum
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more »VLC 1.0 "Goldeneye" Now Out
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more »Mutter: Window Manager in GNOME's Future
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more »Free Nano: First Breakthrough for Linux on iPod
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more »Newly Cooked: Krecipes for KDE 4
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more »Debian to Stallman: Mono Not Default
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more »Intelligent GCC-ICC Compiler Stable and in Project Hands
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