February 13th, 2008 | Ubuntu, Technology, Linux by th | 3 Comments
SANTA CLARA, CA February 12, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that it has entered into a stock purchase agreement to acquire innotek, the provider of the leading edge, open source virtualization software called VirtualBox. By enabling developers to more efficiently build, test and run applications on multiple platforms, VirtualBox will extend the Sun xVM platform onto the desktop and strengthen Sun’s leadership in the virtualization market. This software is available for all major operating systems at www.virtualbox.org and www.openxvm.org.
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August 1st, 2007 | Technology, Linux by th | 1 Comment
Asus introduced extremely nice, small (and cheap!) Linux laptop - Asus Eee PC. Priced 199$ and 299$ for larger model, this can potentially be the hottest consumer Linux machine available. And did I say already it’s small? Smaller model boosts 7″ tft with 800×480 resolution and no hard drive or optical drives. The machine has USB to connect additional optical media or hard drives. The machine also has MMC/SD/MS card reader for additional storage. CPU is 900mhz Intel Pentium M (Dothan), and Eee has 512mb ram. The bigger model comes with 10″ tft screen - but the specifications for 10″ model hasn’t been released yet. If it has 1024x or 1280x wide resolution, count me in for buying one. 800×480 is just too small for pretty much anything.
The Linux inside is custom distribution made by Xandros. It has custom ‘tab-view’ user interface which can be changed back to “full” mode which reveals a standard KDE desktop. Ships with Firefox, OpenOffice and other usual suspects. See Hothardware’s page 2 for UI shots.
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July 4th, 2007 | Nintendo, Technology, Microsoft, Linux, Apple by th | 2 Comments
Touchscreen is not a new technology, but it is steadily coming more mainstream. Touchscreens definitely have a lot of huge potential to ease interaction with our everyday gadgets and computers, so here is a little roundup of current touchscreen usage in real products.
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