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SMPlayer is my video player of choice. It comes with the most commonly used video and audio codecs installed and it is quite uncommon that one runs into a video that cannot be played out of the box in SMPlayer. A great advantage of SMPlayer in my opinion is the way it stores the codecs. They are actually stored in the SMPlayer directory and not global codecs which means it is highly unlikely that you will run into incompatibilities.

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Media in India claim that Michael Dell will announce a subnotebook or Macbook Air competitor in Delhi tomorrow. We're guessing that it's just a Dell E announcement, though.Read More...

Dell's Mini is now available in the UK, but is the company not-so-subtly favoring the Windows version? Price comparisons suggest they are. Read More...

Ars takes a close look at the Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a new flavor of the popular Linux distribution that is designed specifically for subnotebook mobile computing devices. Read More...

Ars shows you how to put a bootable Ubuntu LiveCD image on an SD card and how to install Ubuntu on an Eee PC.Read More...

Leaked specifications indicate that Dell's upcoming subnotebook product will be available with Ubuntu 8.04. The product could be available as early as this week.Read More...

Who would have thought that Ubuntu would become one of the most popular, or the most popular, Linux distribution in a matter of years ? Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron is out and can be downloaded from the official Ubuntu website. Am I the only one thinking that this naming convention is utterly stupid and causes confusion by new users ? I have two questions that can hopefully be answered by veteran Ubuntu users.

Dell has teamed up with CinemaNow to offer pre-loaded movies on PCs.Read More...