One of the key selling points for Linux is that it can breathe new life into old computers since the hardware requirements for a modern Linux distribution are typically much lower than those for the latest versions of Windows or OS X. But have you ever wondered just how low you can go? Dmitry Grinberg […]
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Ubuntu 11.10 ported to Archos Gen8 tablets
Archos may not have released Android 4.0 for its Gen8 line of tablets from 2010. But that doesn’t mean you can’t run an up-to-date operating system on the Archos 43 or Archos 101 Gen8. Xda-developers forum member CalcProgrammer1 is porting Ubuntu 11.10 Linux to run on the Archos 43 tablet with a 4.3 inch display. […]
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Ekoore launches 3 new Windows, Linux, and Android tablets
Italian company Ekoore introduced a tablet computer running Ubuntu Linux last year. Now Ekoore is back with three new tablets, with the rather geeky names of Perl, Python and Pascal. Two of the tablets are designed to run Ubuntu Linux or Windows 7, while the third is a budget Android tablet with a rather familiar […]
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Kogan introduces Ubuntu notebook, Android tablet in Australia
Kogan Electronics is launching three new budget computing products in Australia: an Android tablet, an Ubuntu notebook, and a set-top-box that brings Android to your TV set. Honestly, I have a hard time getting all that excited about yet another Android tablet, but Agora’s model does have one thing going for it — a low […]
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Nufront unveils 10 inch ARM-powered netbook
Microsoft Windows may not be available for ARM-based processors (yet), but that doesn’t mean you can’t run other operating systems on laptop or desktop computers with ARM chips. We’ve already seen a number of Android-based netbooks, and in years past I’ve seen plenty of mini-laptops with low power ARM chips and light weight Linux distributions […]
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Ubuntu Linux shoehorned onto the Samsung Galaxy Tab
Sure, the Samsung Galaxy Tab ships with Google Android installed. But what if you want to run another operating system on this 7 inch tablet, like say… Ubuntu Linux? No problem. It turns out that Ubuntu runs pretty well on the Galaxy Tab. The steps to get everything up and running are similar to the […]
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Multitouch gesture support coming to Ubuntu 10.10
Multitouch gesture support is everywhere these days. Windows 7 has it baked in (well, not Windows 7 Starter, but all the other versions). So does Apple OS X and iOS, Google Android, Palm WebOS, and a number of other mobile operating systems. So it’s not all that surprising that Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth is […]
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Cisco’s tablet prototype in flesh… err, plastic and metal
Yesterday Cisco announced plans to bring a new business-oriented Android tablet to market in the next year. While the tablet isn’t ready to ship yet, we don’t just have to look at rendered artwork to get a sense of what it will look like. Tecnografo snapped a bunch of photos of a prototype at a […]