If you’re looking forward to the next Gnome desktop environment, you’ll have to wait until March. Members of the Gnome project gathered at the GUADEC conference in the Netherlands where they announced that Gnome 3 would be delayed until March 2011. This delays the project by a year, as it’s original release was schedule for March 2010. The Gnome project will now issue another incremental update in September. “Gnome is driven by its goals to provide a quality, free software desktop, and we feel that our users and downstream community are better served by holding the Gnome 3.0 release until March 2011,” the Gnome project said via an official statement. Much progress has been made in the desktop environment. Users can download early versions of the Shell package from Launchpad.
Gnome Census Results
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Hard Disk Manager Suite 2010
Paragon Software
www.paragon-software.com $49.95
Although most Linux boot disks will let you create and nondestructively resize partitions with drag-and-drop ease just like Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2010, Paragon’s offering lets you do so much more, and with either an elegant GUI or intuitive wizard. Copy partitions from one drive to another? Wipe a partition according to military standards?
Copy hard disks to virtual machine images that are compatible with VMWare or VirtualPC? Back up a disk or partition to another drive, a set of optical discs, network drive, or FTP server? It’s all child’s play for Hard Disk Manager. Not only are all these features available directly from within Windows, but Hard Disk Manager can create rescue CDs based both on Windows PE and Linux, meaning that the chances are very high that your very new or very old hardware will be supported and that you don’t need a working Windows installation to restore your data.
Other Disk File Utilities » Dropbox
Source of Information : CPU Computer Power User November 2010
www.paragon-software.com $49.95
Although most Linux boot disks will let you create and nondestructively resize partitions with drag-and-drop ease just like Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2010, Paragon’s offering lets you do so much more, and with either an elegant GUI or intuitive wizard. Copy partitions from one drive to another? Wipe a partition according to military standards?
Copy hard disks to virtual machine images that are compatible with VMWare or VirtualPC? Back up a disk or partition to another drive, a set of optical discs, network drive, or FTP server? It’s all child’s play for Hard Disk Manager. Not only are all these features available directly from within Windows, but Hard Disk Manager can create rescue CDs based both on Windows PE and Linux, meaning that the chances are very high that your very new or very old hardware will be supported and that you don’t need a working Windows installation to restore your data.
Other Disk File Utilities » Dropbox
Source of Information : CPU Computer Power User November 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Negroponte Offers to Collaborate on US$ 35 Tablet
Nicholas Negroponte, project founder of One Laptop Per Child, offered to collaborate with India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to realize the country’s aspirations for a US$ 35 laptop.
OLPC has had a checkered relationship with the MHRD, which initially rejected the OLPC initiative saying, “It would be impossible to justify an expenditure of this scale on a debatable scheme when public funds continue to be in inadequate supply for well established needs listed in different policy documents.”
Negroponte’s offer is being viewed by many as an attempt at collaboration, something OLPC has failed to adopt in the past. Negroponte has said that competition would hurt the OLPC initiative, but he now seems more willing to embrace competitors. India’s laptop is currently unnamed. The device was developed by students and teachers at The Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kharagpur and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. It features a web browser, a multimedia player, PDF reader, WiFi, and video-conferencing capabilities.
Other linux News » Android Experiences Record Growth
OLPC has had a checkered relationship with the MHRD, which initially rejected the OLPC initiative saying, “It would be impossible to justify an expenditure of this scale on a debatable scheme when public funds continue to be in inadequate supply for well established needs listed in different policy documents.”
Negroponte’s offer is being viewed by many as an attempt at collaboration, something OLPC has failed to adopt in the past. Negroponte has said that competition would hurt the OLPC initiative, but he now seems more willing to embrace competitors. India’s laptop is currently unnamed. The device was developed by students and teachers at The Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kharagpur and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. It features a web browser, a multimedia player, PDF reader, WiFi, and video-conferencing capabilities.
Other linux News » Android Experiences Record Growth
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Your Ad Here
Much attention has been given to Gartner’s and other recent forecasts that by 2014 the Android mobile operating system will have climbed all the way into a virtual tie with Symbian for the best-selling worldwide mobile OS. A less-discussed set of data, but one that may hold stronger interest for Web marketers, breaks down the advertising clickthrough rates for each of the leading mobile operating systems. In that category, Symbian remains the runaway leader through August 2010 while Android sits in a very distant last place. The data provided by mobile ad service Smaato indicates that Symbian users are by far the most likely to click on ads displayed on their smartphones, followed by users of regular mobile phones with Internet access, iPhones and iPads, Microsoft Windows devices, RIM devices and, finally, Android users.
The Mobile Ad Boom
The Mobile Ad Boom
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Rackspace Announces OpenStack
Rackspace announced OpenStack, an open source cloud computing operating system. Rackspace is donating the code behind the cloud files and cloud servers to the project, which has attracted the attention of some major partners, including NASA.
A compute-provisioning engine is slated for later this year. It will incorporate NASA’s Nebula technology and Rackspace’s cloud servers. OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Object Storage are both available in developer preview and will be released in mid- October and mid-September, respectively.
OpenStack will be available under the Apache 2.0 license. Rackspace president Lew Moorman said the decision to go open source was made to prevent vendor lock-in. Rackspace also announced several partners involved in OpenStack, including Citrix, Autonomic Resources, Intel, Dell, and Sonian.
Open Source Hardware Defined
A compute-provisioning engine is slated for later this year. It will incorporate NASA’s Nebula technology and Rackspace’s cloud servers. OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Object Storage are both available in developer preview and will be released in mid- October and mid-September, respectively.
OpenStack will be available under the Apache 2.0 license. Rackspace president Lew Moorman said the decision to go open source was made to prevent vendor lock-in. Rackspace also announced several partners involved in OpenStack, including Citrix, Autonomic Resources, Intel, Dell, and Sonian.
Open Source Hardware Defined
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