Motorola Droid Copying Genesis Adds?

Nick Mahar Oct 27, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Apple, Gadgets, Humor, Internet, Linux, Microsoft, Mobile, News, Okay Geek, Personal, Videos, Websites, iPhone

I just stumbled upon a friend of mine's tweet and discovered this awesome video back in the day for Sega Genesis. Tell me this doesn't remind you of the Android phone adds against Apple's IPhone just as this video is Sega Genesis Vs. the Nintendo(what ever one was out at the time).

-NM

Revolution OS - The Documentary about Linux and Open Source

Ricardo Trejo Oct 18, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Linux

Ever wondered where Linux came from? What about the words "Homebrew" or "Open Source"? I'm a Windows guy. I always have been, but that's not to say I haven't tinkered around with other operating systems before though, because I've tried, and used, Linux based stuff since near a decade ago. But anyway, let's not stray away from the point. The history behind the movement responsible for alternatives to Microsoft are heavy under cobwebs of bad clothing styles, long beards, and even hippie like idealism.

It's quite a journey, to say the least, which I just finished experiencing in this gem of a documentary called Revolution OS. You can check it out on Netflix streaming (Xbox 360 ftw), or here, on Youtube.

Jolicloud - Optimized OS for Netbooks

Netbooks are increasing in popularity. And you know why? Most people who are on the go don't usually do much besides go online when using their laptops. So why not make a much more streamlined OS, base it off Linux to do away with the clunkiness of Windows, and give you all the apps right out of installation so you browse, stream, and tweet all you want? Well, thanks to Jolicloud, now you can. Optimized for cloud computing, it also boasts native applications to not make your netbook completely useless when not connected to some WiFi.

the 24 Best applications for Ubuntu, Suse, or any other distro of Linux

Though Linux comes in many different flavors, there are a common string of favorite apps that seem to unite all users. These apps are high-quality, versatile, professional, reliable, and often available in many different packages (deb, rpm, etc). If you're new to the Linux game, or simply want a list of programs that have been re-verified as excellent by many hundreds of users, this article is for you. To download and install the apps, just go to your built-in package manager.

Karmic Koala Ubuntu 9.10 - What to expect and the release date | Alpha Download

Brandon Davenport Jul 10, 2009 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Linux, News

Whats so great about Karmic Koala? Here is a short list of things that will get you exited about the final late 2009 release.

1. New Theme
I list this first because we've been promised this for so long, and even though we were promised it was actually happening in Karmic, i'm just not so sure anymore. I hope to see it, but i won't set myself up to be crushed if we don't =]
2. Flawless PulseAudio
Oh yes, we've been waiting on this for all too long. Audio should finally be close to perfect. If you're like me, and haven't had any real problems with it, please move along to the next item.
3. Firefox 3.5
The wonderful new version of Mozilla Firefox that adds support for Ogg Theora/Vorbis, audio and video, respectively for HTML 5's Open Web Video (also supported in Midori using WebKit) should be a significant upgrade from the current version.
4. Faster Boot Times
This is a general thing that we should see improve a lot in Karmic and Karmic +1. Self-explanatory, move along now.
5. Ext4 now Default
Ext4 support was just added in 9.04, and now it will be the default for new installs of 9.10. If you don't know already, Ext4 brings a lot of nice changes, over Ext3, and will generally improve filesystem performance.
6. GNU GRUB 2
The boot loader for new installation will now be GNU GRUB 2, which is a complete rewrite of GRUB which make it faster, cleaner, safer, as well as more robust, portable, and powerful.
7. Plymouth
Goodbye, USpash! Plymouth will be making our graphical boot experiance cleaner with no more of that annoying flickering of the display at startup. It makes Ubuntu look more polished, or at least less unpolised.[Update, see below]
8. New Linux Kernel
The newest Linux Kernel 2.6.31 will be included in which we can hope to see ATI kernel-based mode-setting (KMS) and memory managemnt support in. The current 2.6.30 Kernel will already be old by then.
9. New Intel Drivers
Again, this will solve major performance problems that Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 had with Intel drivers. Gah, i hate Intel. Sorry, i had to throw that in there.
10. New NVIDIA Drivers
The new NVIDIA drivers add VDPAU and CUDA support resulting in, you guessed it-- more performance enhancements!
11. GNOME 2.28 (and Testing GNOME 3)
Not only will Ubuntu ship with all the enhancements of GNOME 2.28, but users will be able to test GNOME 3 in Karmic! Cool stuff.
12. PackageKit
Oh yes. It's a much nicer way to manage and update applications than Add/Remove and Update Manager that actually uses PolicyKit. This will certainly be quite a refreshing change.
13. Empathy
Lastly, the most controversial of the changes, Empathy will take the place of both Pidgin and Ekiga. I would like to take this opportunity to support this decision. Hopefully, even if you still prefer Pidgin for yourself, you can appreciate what Empathy brings for new users. It has been discussed for over half a year at UDS Jaunty and Karmic, and there are a number of reasons it should happen:

New users: Pidgin has lots of features and plugins that may cater to some of us just better, but Empathy has a friendlier UI for new users. We want to make Ubuntu the best experience for those migrating to it. The rest of us have no trouble keeping Pidgin.

Integration: Empathy integrates well into the GNOME desktop. A lot of cool stuff is possible with it. 'Nuff said (you can learn more on your own).

Features: Empathy is mostly feature complete, and the lack of OTR is something that new users will not know or use. I agree it is important, but it is still available in Pidgin until Empathy implements it.

Telepathy: Empathy uses the awesome Telepathy framework. It supports libpurple for all networks only currently in Pidgin.

Voice/Video: Empathy already has VoIP support for audio and video chatting, which means it can replace both Pidgin and Ekiga.

Feature Gap: Yes, Telepathy might be a tiny bit behind in a few places, but none of them are showstoppers, and it is far ahead in others. Including it in Karmic will mean that the feature gap between Empathy and Pidgin will close and reverse much sooner, not to mention we'd like Empathy to be awesome in Ubuntu Karmic +1 10.04 LTS.

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Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Karmic development cycle.

The primary changes from Jaunty have been the re-merging of changes from Debian, updating to the current Linux kernel, and updating GNOME to the current development release, the Ubuntu developers said in an emailed announcement yesterday.

The team said that the desktop CD wasn’t ready for release this time so only the alternate and server CDs were to be available. “The desktop CD will follow in the next Alpha release,” they said.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-1/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/karmic/alpha-1/ (Xubuntu)