Due October, Karmic Koala is taking cloud computing seriously. You can generally get an inclination of what Ubuntu is going to feel like from the name, and we think the Karmic Koala is going to be more of an interim release than a major overhaul.
What\'s inside Google\'s just-announced Chrome Operating System? How does it work, exactly? Nobody outside Google knows. We can, however, build a dream operating system from the ground up, and that\'s what we\'re doing with some help from the hive mind.
Since the official blog post is all Google has said about Chrome OS and it doesn\'t say much, let\'s do something I learned in college, turning tiny paragraphs into pages of \"deep reading.\"
The Linux port of Chromium, the open source development version of Google\'s Chrome browser, now has a native theming mode that will make the browser adopt the icons and colors from a user\'s GTK theme.
Obviously, this isn\'t true. But to a 17-year-old student who \"hated Linux\" a year ago, there\'s no longer any meaningful difference between the two operating systems. The old Windows vs. vs. Mac vs. Linux debate may finally be dead.
Sun released VirtualBox 3 this week, the latest version of its open source x86 virtualization software. The new version introduces support for 3D graphics and SMP.
So far, a customized uClinux kernel has been successfully ported to several iPods by iPodLinux Project. Note that, others are also quite successful for other operating systems (e.g. Rockbox). A simple interface and additional applications/modules have been written too. Unfortunately, Apple has protected iPods firmware through encryption since...
- A ton of translation updates.\\r - Support for various Unicode file encodings in Notepad.\\r - Improved memory management, especially for OpenGL.\\r - Desktop menus now cleaned up automatically.\\r - Beginnings of a windowscodecs DLL implementation
Without sending users on some sort of boot camp, changing the preconceptions of users may seem a daunting task. But there are ways to ease the pain of learning Linux.
Moblin is an Intel-created open-source operating system for netbooks and people who use them. On a technical level this means Moblin is built for the Atom x86 chip found in many netbooks, while on a practical level it means Moblin is an Internet- and multimedia-focused operating system.