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Google
Chrome OS - a new open source
Linux distro.
 Google's Android
mobile OS is not the only OS up Google's sleeve. Google announced
late Tuesday that it is working on a Linux based Chrome OS as an
operating system for the web. Don't rush out to Google to download
Chrome OS today - Google doesn't expect to have it available to
consumers until the second half of 2010. more... and Google
to release Linux based ChromeOS and Introducing
the Google Chrome OS.
VideoLAN
releases VLC 1.0.0: Your
media will never be the same.
VideoLAN's VLC
media player, arguably the world's best media player, hit version
0.9.9 in early April. Three months and more than 78 million downloads
later, VideoLAN has announced VLC 1.0.0, or "Goldeneye."
One of the amazing things about VLC is that it can play anything that
you've ever even thought about playing. more... and VLC
1.0.0 released.
Sugar
on a Stick brings sweet taste
of Linux to classrooms.
Sugar Labs has
announced the first official release of Sugar on a Stick, a
Linux-based learning environment that can boot from a USB memory
stick. The Sugar platform, which originally emerged from the One
Laptop Per Child project, could soon arrive in classrooms. more...
Dell
turns netbooks into navigation
devices.
Say hello to your
latest personal navigation device: a netbook. Dell plans to introduce
a GPS and Wi-Fi card that can be integrated into the company's
netbooks to turn them into gizmos that can offer turn-by-turn
direction as well as any Garmin or TomTom. more...
PostgreSQL
8.4 released.
This release
contains an abundance of enhancements to make administering,
querying, and programming of PostgreSQL databases easier than ever
before. With 293 new or improved features in version 8.4, there are
even more reasons to choose PostgreSQL for your next project. more...
Ogg
codecs dropped from HTML5.
After an
inordinate amount of discussions, both in public and privately, on
the situation regarding codecs for <video> and
<audio> in
HTML5, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no
suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement and ship.
more...
Tracking
Your Time with Project
Hamster.
Project Hamster is
“time tracking for [the] masses.” It aims to be a tool which
enables users to quickly and accurately keep track of the amount of
time they spend on their activities over time. Project Hamster is a
relatively new module for GNOME, having been brought into GNOME
officially for the 2.24 release. more...
VirtualBox
3.0.0 is amazing!
Just a few days
ago, VirtualBox 3.0.0 has been released amidst a flurry of
excitement. This was a great opportunity to see how well it fares,
both against its predecessors and VMware Server. more...
Firefox
3.5 - A Really Impressive
Release.
Firefox 3.5 was
released just a couple of hours ago and it comes with great new
features and a new version of Gecko, the rendering engine. Firefox is
currently the most popular browser on the Linux platform and the top
choice on Windows more...
Palm
Pre Dances Nicely with Linux.
Summer releases of
the latest smart phones from Apple, Blackberry, Google and Palm have
excited geeks all over the world. The big question on the mind of
Linux users has to be "Can I sync my Linux machine and my cool
new phone?" We decided to find the answers specifically for the
new Palm Pre. more...
Misc.
Apache
attacked by a "slow loris".
AndNav2
- GPS navigation application for Android.
Maemo
To Switch To Qt.
From Microsoft:
C#
and CLI
under the Community Promise.
Attempted
Break-In on www.centos.org.
Low End Linux
Netbook Prices Continue To Drop.
Source
Code of Several Atari 7800 Games Released!
AmigaForever
2009 Released.
ASCAP
Makes Outlandish Copyright Claims on Cell Phone Ringtones.
Die
HAL Die.
How To Tips. |
After many months
of discussions, Microsoft has released their Hyper-V Linux drivers
under the GPLv2. Following this message, will be the patches that
add the drivers to the drivers/staging/ tree, and a whole bunch of
cleanups. 
Seemingly out of
nowhere, Virtualbox 3.0 was released to the masses recently. Since I
am already a fan of this software, I decided to give it a shot the
very same day I was notified of its release. From what I have seen so
far, not much has actually changed on the surface, though this
version has laid the groundwork for some amazing things to come later
on. 