Google Chrome OS is an operating system designed around the Chrome web browser. All the apps you run on Chrome OS are web apps, which is why computers designed to run Chrome tend to ship with just 16GB of storage — you don’t need space to store apps or files on a large hard drive. […]
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Linux distributions that can run on an MK802 Mini PC
The MK802 is a tiny computer that looks like a USB flash drive, and which ships with Google Android 4.0 and sells for around $80 or less. It’s designed to be something you can plug into a TV to surf the web, watch video, and play games on the big screen. But over the past […]
Dell introduces Project Sputnik Beta (XPS 13 ultrabooks with Ubuntu Linux)
Dell’s Project Sputnik is an experiment to develop a Linux-powered laptop aimed at developers. The project is still in its early stages, but Dell and Canonical already offer a version of Ubuntu 12.04 Linux for the company’s XPS 13 ultrabook. Up until now if you’ve wanted to try Linux on the Dell XPS 13, you’ve had […]
Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 now available
Canonical has released a second alpha for Ubuntu 12.10. The next version of the popular Linux-based operating system is scheduled for an October launch, but you can check out the latest pre-release version today. Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha uses Linux kernel 3.5 and updates to several filesystem pacakges. The Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email client […]
EasyPeasy 2.0 Alpha netbook operating system
EasyPeasy is an operating system based on Ubuntu and Debian Linux, but optimized for netbooks and other computers with low power processors. The OS has been around for years, although it was originally called Ubuntu Eee before the developer was asked to change the name. There haven’t been many updates lately, but a few months […]
Asus Eee PC 1225C: 11.6 inch notebook with Ubuntu Linux
Asus has quietly introduced a new Eee PC notebook with an Intel Atom Cedar Trail processor and Ubuntu Linux operating system. The Asus Eee PC 1225C features an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, a choice of an Atom N2600 or N2800 CPU, 2GB of memory, and up to 500GB of hard disk space. […]
How to enable 1080p output for the MK802 Mini PC (Ubuntu)
The MK802 Mini PC is an inexpensive computer that’s about the size of a large USB flash drive. It ships with Google Android 4.0 software, but as we’ve already seen it can also run Ubuntu, Puppy, and other Linux-based operating systems. While the hardware can handle 1080p screen resolutions, out of the box the MK802 […]
Ubuntu 12.04 (and Lubuntu 12.04) images for the MK802 mini PC
Just in case you had any doubt that the MK802 $74 PC-on-a-stick was a versatile computer, the folks at Miniand Tech have compiled several versions of Ubuntu 12.04 Linux that can run on the little computer. We’ve already demonstrated that the MK802 can handle Android 4.0 (which it ships with), Puppy Linux, and Ubuntu 10.04. […]
How to run Ubuntu Linux on the MK802 $74 PC-on-a-stick
The MK802 is a tiny PC that looks like a USB thumb drive. While it ships with Google Android 4.0, it’s actually pretty easy to convince it to run an alternate operating system. In fact, if you have a properly prepared microSD card, all you need to do is insert the memory card, turn on […]
Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 1 now available
It feels like it was just April when Ubuntu 12.04 was released… oh right, because it was. But the folks at Canonical are already working on the next version of one of the world’s most popular Linux-based operating systems. Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal is scheduled to launch in October, but you can download the first […]