According to some sources, Mandriva is up for sale?
It’s a pity that fragmentation of opensource linux operating systems has increased the popularity of some distributions such as Ubuntu and diminished the light of other distributions such as Mandriva.
But without competition, there will be no evolution.
Download the possibly last Mandriva distro before the company is sold…
News Source : Mandriva Up For Sale via Slashdot.
This picture was seen at CNET’s REHASHPLUS Blog
For those whom are oblivious to what the above poster meant…
Here are some clues.
Android seems to be friendlier than its fruity competitor.
Adobe ceases efforts to bring Flash to IPhone
Adobe says bye to Apple, goes to Android
Adobe Flash Project Manager gives up on IPhone Packager
Adobe Ditching Flash for the IPhone
I think we get the point.
Yay for Android, Nay for IPhone.
Meego is an operating system framework which is collaborated by both Nokia and Intel, combining their efforts from Maemo and Moblin respectively.
It is opensource and a large part of this framework focuses on the user interface, which is mainly large icons with an easy point & click user navigation interface. The outlook of the interface resembles most of what Intel have had for Moblin.
On most distros installations, there is a package “laptop-mode” tools included.
The package is meant to ensure power saving features on laptops.
The Nvidia ION powered Intel Atom processor netbooks and nettops are the rage these days.
Affordable, lightweight and powerful graphics processor.
The Nvidia ION is actually an Intel Atom CPU coupled with a Nvidia 9400m graphics chipset.
Most linux distributions install fine on most netbooks and nettops. However, their default video player may not be optimized for the Nvidia ION chipsets. For HD video playback, without tweaking the parameters of the video player application, the end result may be lacklustre and the playback may even be not in sync or skipping frames.
Ubuntuforums had an official post from Canonical asking users to submit recommended apps in a survey site.
In the survey, a preselected list of apps for voting includes closed-sourced applications such as ITunes, Photoshop, Spotify and Pandora.
Would the upcoming Ubuntu distro include these applications if the demand is large enough? Will Canonical implementation be Wine-based of the popular applications originally created on only the Windows platform? Or will it be coded natively on Linux?
If these closed source apps are created originally for Windows, eg Apple’s ITunes and Adobe’s Photoshop, how is Canonical going to convince them to code for Linux?
Many argue the fact that opensource linux OS users aren’t a large significant market and therefore many paid apps are not developed for the linux platform. But the recent rise of popularity of Ubuntu and its variants may just shake up the market share of users on linux and attract such developers to write apps for the rising numbers of Linux users.
Source : WebUpd8 Canonical To Bring Closed Source Apps Like iTunes And Photoshop To Ubuntu?!?!.
ARE YOU SOMEONE WHOM:
1) is sick of dual booting just to play games using Windows?
2) Prefers not to corrupt hardened linux workstation with linux games?
3) Complains of not having enough games on linux?
Supergamer is a permanent fix if you answered YES to any of the question!
Fierce Looking Desktop Background
SuperGamer is a games oriented Live CD/DVD Linux OS. It has all the normal Linux desktop applications such as the Firefox Browser, OpenOffice.org, etc., but also has a great many native to Linux games added, as well as some demos of proprietary games.
Here is the list of games it comes pre-installed with :
| Quake Wars Doom 3 Prey Unreal Tournament Quake 4 Savage 2 Postal 2 Enemy Territory Penumbra Black Plague Sauerbraten Urban Terror |
Soldier Of Fortune Torcs Tremulous AlienArena True Combat America’s Army Nexus OpenArena PlaneShift Drop Team Frets On Fire |
Chromium B.S.U. Mad Bomber X-Moto BZ Flag Mega Mario Glaxium GL-117 NeverBall NeverPutt Super Tux PPRacer |
Download torrent here
or
Purchase the Live-DVD direct from On-Disk if you feel 8 gigabytes will take too long to download.
Source : Linux Journal
Or visit Supergamer website!
You might also wanna read up what Distrowatch has to say about the Supergamer linux distribution here.
What is lm_sensors?
By Wikipedia’s definition of lm_sensors :
lm_sensors (Linux-monitoring sensors), a free open source software-tool for Linux, provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans. It also monitors chassis intrusion detection.
lm-sensors is already included in many popular linux distribution repositories.
For Gnome desktop users, values obtained from the lm_sensors can be placed in the “top panel” by installing “sensors-applet”.
Here is a good “lm-sensors” guide for Ubuntu users to add lm-sensors to your customized installation [ for both Gnome and KDE users ]
For those with bleeding edge hardware, the usual repositories lm-sensors package may not yet support all the latest sensors on their mainboards and graphics card.
However, there has been some new developments in the detection of new yet to be supported sensors that can be installed with a simple script.
More on this lm-sensors update here from Phoronix.
Source: Phoronix
As a linux distro gets updated with a new version, it is always a good idea to do a fresh install than to do an upgrade [which may cause some unforeseen problems].
But with the frequent updates of newer versions of distros such as Ubuntu [every 6 months], it gets a bit tiring to re-install from scratch and do “apt-get” commands for all the packages required for customization and personalization of the OS. To make matters worse, it is hard to remember each and every package that was installed previously.
