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Linpus retools Android 4.0 for x86 tablets, netbooks

Brad Linder — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:28 +0000

Linpus is rolling out a new version of its Android-based operating system designed to run on tablets, netbooks, and notebooks with x86 processors. It's based on Google Android 4.0, and the notebook version adds support for hardware that you wouldn't normally find on an Android tablet. [/caption] Linpus made a little bit of a name for itself a few years...

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Windows 8 Consumer Preview coming February 29th

Brad Linder — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:08 +0000

Microsoft is preparing to launch the first "Consumer Preview" of Windows 8. The company is holding an event on February 29th at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain to kick off the launch. The Consumer Preview follows the Developer Preview that the company launched in September, 2011. While Microsoft isn't using the words "alpha," or "beta" to describe exactly where in the...

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Canonical pulls the plug on funding for Kubuntu Linux

Brad Linder — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:00:15 +0000

The company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux software have decided to end funding for the Kubuntu variation of the operating system. Kubuntu is basically what you get when you take Ubuntu's core software and tack on a custom version of the KDE desktop environment in place of the Unity user interface that the main branch of Ubuntu has used for...

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Tiny Core Linux 4.2 is a complete operating system in 64MB or less

Brad Linder — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:08:34 +0000

Once upon a time operating systems shipped on a stack of 1.4MP floppy disks. These days most come on DVDs because the installer files can't fit on 640MB CDs. And then there's Tiny Core Linux. Tiny Core is a light-weight Linux distribution focused on providing a fast, small, but usable operating system. TinyCore uses just 12MB of disk space and...

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Windows 8 on ARM heading to developers soon

Brad Linder — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:44:59 +0000

Earlier this month Microsoft and a handful of partners started showing of Windows 8 running on tablet with ARM-based processors. While Windows 8 probably won't be released to the public until the second half of 2012, CNET reports that an early version Windows 8 for ARM will be available for developers in February. [/caption] Windows 8 on ARM is reportedly...

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HP: webOS to go fully open source by September

Brad Linder — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:05:20 +0000

HP announced recently that it would release its webOS mobile operating system as open source software. Now the company is providing a roadmap. The goal is to release the first open souce version of webOS by September, 2012. Along the way the company will start using a standard Linux kernel instead of a custom kernel, update the development tools for...

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Ubuntu re-invents PC menu systems with new HUD interface

Brad Linder — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:36:29 +0000

For about as long as computers have had graphical user interfaces, apps have had menus. You know those things at the top of the window that say things like File, Edit, and Preferences. Now the folks behind Ubuntu Linux want to get rid of menus... or at least supplement them with something that may be easier to use and take...

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Bada and Tizen sitting in a tree: Samsung, Intel to merge mobile OS projects

Brad Linder — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:09:19 +0000

Update: It looks like the merger of Tizen and Bada might not be a done deal yet. A Samsung official has told AllThingsD that while the company is considering the possibility, the decision hasn't been made. Samsung plans to merge its Bada mobile phone operating system with the open source Tizen project backed by Intel. Forbes reports that this means existing...

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Ubuntu 12.04 could offer better battery life

Brad Linder — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:25:04 +0000

Popular Linux distribution Ubuntu is known for a lot of things -- but long battery life is not one of them. Users that have installed Ubuntu on notebook computers that had previously run Windows or another operating system have been complaining for years that their battery life drops after installing Ubuntu. Now Ubuntu engineer Colin King says he's taking a...

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BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2 beta updated, patches DingleBerry jailbreak exploit

Lee — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:00:17 +0000

Research in Motion has released a new beta version of the BlackBerry PlayBook operating system. PlayBook OS 2.0.0.6149 for the tablet feels smother and faster than the previous beta nad fixes a number of quirks. But there's bad news for anyone that's rooted a PlayBook using Dingleberry. Update: Now you can use Dingleberry 3.0 to downgrade your tablet so that...

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HP to make webOS open source

Brad Linder — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:51:14 +0000

HP has announced that it will turn webOS into an open source project. The company paid $1.2 billion to acquire Palm and its webOS mobile operating system last year, and sunk billions of additional dollars into developing webOS smartphones and tablets before killing the hardware division this summer. Now HP is hoping to keep webOS alive by making it open...

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Chromium OS Lime offers better hardware support and Java plug-in

Lee — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:19:54 +0000

Just as with Android, Google makes the open source base for Chrome OS available for all to download. But if you're not keen on setting up a 64-bit Linux build environment, what can you do? You can download a pre-compiled Chromium OS from Hexxeh, who's long been the name to know in Chromium OS DIY builds. Things had been relatively...

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First Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha ready for download

Lee — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:30:38 +0000

While the web struggles over the importance (or non-importance) of Linux Mint surpassing Ubuntu on the DistroWatch leaderboard, it's business as usual for the crew at Canonical. And with a new release deadline looming on the horizon, it's time to start releasing milestone builds of Ubuntu 12.04. On December 1, the first alpha Ubuntu 12.04 was made available from Canonical's...

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Linux Mint 12 is now available

Brad Linder — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:40:31 +0000

Ubuntu may grab more headlines than most Linux-based operating systems (unless you count Android, which uses a Linux kernel), but over the past few years Linux Mint has been nipping at Ubuntu's heels. Today the Mint team released Linux Mint 12, which packs a number of software improvements and new artwork. For the past few weeks Mint has been ahead...

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openSUSE Linux 12.1 now available, with ownCloud, GNOME 3.2

Brad Linder — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:55:41 +0000

The openSUSE team has released version 12.1 of the popular Linux operating system. The update is available with a choice of desktop environments, including the recently released GNOME 3.2 desktop. You can also choose to use openSUSE 12.1 with KDE, XFCE, or LXDE desktops. One of the biggest changes is the addition of ownCloud, a system for essentially setting up a web...

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