Hack Attack : Preview Google Chrome OS Easily
Google Chrome OS, the Operating System being currently built by Google for people who would like to work in the cloud has been in the wild as public test builds. It wasn’t isn’t that easy to get Google Chrome OS running on your machine keeping in mind the limited hardware support, and the relative complexity to get it installed. However if you still want to try out Google Chrome OS, don’t fret Chrome OS Diet is here. The biggest change is the 300 MB download, a far cry from the... Read The Rest →
15 Most Beautiful Looking Linux Desktops You’ll Ever See
photo credit: psd Who said Linux can’t look pretty? For long its been said that Linux is the most boring OS ever and is not user friendly. I’ve been a linux user for sometime and I can say that my experience with it was nothing short of marvelous. Linux offers you unlimited amount of control as to how can you customize your desktop. Scoring around the net I found some really fantastic desktops and here is what I feel are the best of what I’ve seen. Certainly not the most... Read The Rest →
Futuristic Next Gen OLPC XO Laptop Revealed
Nicholas Negroponte the founder of One Laptop Per Child Foundation yesterday unveiled the design of their upcoming XO Laptop. Dubbed to be the world’s cheapest laptop ever it is expected to retail about 75$. The designs that were unveiled totally blow the current market, as the design is simply amazing, and looks very user friendly. The only catch is that it will take them till 2010 to bring this design from the artist’s canvas to a real functional device. The laptop to be called XO-2 will have dual touch screens... Read The Rest →
Ubuntu 8.04 to be the Greatest Ever!!
The Ubuntu team is at hard work and I must say I’m impressed with the work that has been done so far. Ubuntu 8.04 is on track to be shipped on April 24th 2008, and in the early stages of its development it continues to impress me with the new features being added.. This alpha release comes with HOT new features and improvements, like PulseAudio as the default sound system, the latest and greatest 2.6.24 Linux kernel and Xorg 7.3, with an emphasis on better autoconfiguration without config files “The... Read The Rest →
Mozilla Prism Now Available on Linux and Mac
Mozilla Prism about which I had talked about earlier has just got a fresh release for Linux and Mac OSX. Prism is basically a stripped down version of Firefox that allows you to load a single page at a time. By using minimal resources Prism is able to deliver high performance. No tabs, no useful URL or navigation buttons. But Prism can come in handy if you like to keep a single web site like Gmail open all day, since it uses fewer resources than Firefox.
Google Announces Mobile OS Android
Rumors about Google making a mobile phone have been floating around the internet for quite some time now. But after repeated denials by Google regarding the making of a phone. Google decided to launch Android the next generation Mobile OS that encourages an open environment, where the customer is the real king and not the service providers.. Android is a stripped down version of Linux, and it will be available under the very popular Apache Software Licence. By Being open source, I am sure Android will appeal to a large... Read The Rest →
The Wait is Over : Ubuntu 7.10 is Here
Well the wait is finally over, Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon) was released just a few hours ago. Ubuntu has changed the way we perceive Linux. Ubuntu has taken Linux to new levels taking it beyond geeks to a lot of normal people like you and me. In its 3 years of existence Ubuntu continues to grow as the biggest challenge to Microsoft domination in the Operating System market. Well today marked the day when another version of Ubuntu labeled as Gusty Gibbon present itself. Gusty has brought a lot of... Read The Rest →
AWN – The Super Sexy Dock for Linux
If you are a Mac OSX fan, I am sure you love the dock functionality of OS X. We have docks for Windows like Object Dock etc. but so far none of them have come up to terms with the OS X Dock. Well finally Linux has a dock, that I believe is a lot more better than the dock in OSX. I am not a Linux user, and I still use Windows XP as my default OS, but with every passing day, i am itching to try out Ubuntu.... Read The Rest →
Gimme – Desktop Organizer for Linux
Gimmie is a unique desktop organizer for Linux. It’s designed to allow easy interaction with all the applications, contacts, documents and other things you use every day. Gimmie can be run either as a stand-alone application or added as a GNOME Panel applet. Gimmie uses an innovative tabs-based approach to categorize everything on your computer. Not just the applications you have installed. You can quickly find friends, documents, computers on the network, notes, music, and just about everything else in a few clicks.
Linux Gets Prettier for all those Windows Fans
Well If you have been itching yourself to switch over to Linux and didn’t like the UI that Linux currently has, then time has finally arrived for you to switch over to Linux in the form of an amazing distro of Linux called Vixta ( I’m pretty much sure Microsoft Lawyers are working on Trademark Infrigement case as I speak). Well the aim of Vixta is pretty much simple, and this is how it reads : Vixta.org is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed to be user-friendly and eye-catching, similar in... Read The Rest →
