Foxconn’s planning to launch a netbook that is both XP and linux capable.
According to Liliputing, the linux will be a customized distribution called FoxOS
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Foxconn Linux netbook hits the FCC
Monday, December 28th, 2009Nvidia 195.22 Beta Linux Display Driver Available In Nvidia Vdpau Team PPA [Ubuntu]
Sunday, December 27th, 2009If you use any of the Nvidia graphics card of GeForce chipset 8500 and above, you can make use of its VDPAU functions.
VDPAU = Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
Since most standard linux distributions does not include it in their repositories, users have to download and install it manually, or if using Ubuntu, a new PPA repository can be added..
More on how to install VDPAU in the link below
Nvidia 195.22 Beta Linux Display Driver Available In Nvidia Vdpau Team PPA [Ubuntu]
Thanks for Webupd8.org for the heads up
Ubuntu 9.10 made available today!
Friday, October 30th, 2009Boot Linux over the Internet!
Monday, September 28th, 2009A little update to what’s brewing lately in the linux world..
Much talk about booting linux over http, ie the internet. However, some work needed as it’s not as simple as turning on the power.
A minimal USB image is needed as booting Linux over the internet. This mean it will still require plugging in a USB thumbdrive. Only the kernel is booted over the internet and sadly it doesn’t utilize the BIOS PXE aka Preboot Execution Environment support via the embedded LAN port on most recent mainboards.
Popular distros such as Ubuntu, DSL, Debian, Fedora and Knoppix are supported for gPXE booting
A howto guide here at howtoforge.com
Official boot kernel over http page at kerrnel.org
Source : H-Online.com
Dubious Google Chrome OS available for public beta testing?
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009First seen by SGLNX on JTWorld ( http://jiongtang.com/blog ), it appears that a virtual image of Google’s Chrome OS is available for testing on VMplayer or VirtualBox.
However, on closer inspection, under the disclaimer on the site providing this download, it says
“Chrome OS is not related to Google. Service provided by SUSE Studio”
The dubious download site even stated its current version is 0.4.207. The version number revision is actually the current version for Google Chrome browser.
Some features listed in this non-google Chrome OS are :
- GNOME 2.24 desktop environment
- Google Chrome 4.0.207 web browser
- OpenOffice.org 3.0 office suite
- Flash Player 10.0 plugin
- many more
To download, follow this link to JTWorld’s blog.
Desktop preview screenshots available on above link at JTWorld.
Though not a real beta image of the actual Google Chrome OS, SGLNX decided to post this article anyway, in anticipation of the real Google Chrome OS.
We wait patiently.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) rolls out version 5.4
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009Red Hat rolled out its Enterprise Linux 5.4 today.
Touting features such as
New enterprise KVM included alongside XEN virtualization technologies,
Clustering updates,
Support for XFS filesystem,
Updated userspace tools for EXT4 filesystem,
etc
Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
Thursday, August 20th, 2009The kernel is the core of the linux operating system.
Most linux distros come with prebuilt kernel that aims to support as much hardware as possible and kernels are constantly evolving and upgraded with new inclusions to support for latest hardware.
The updated linux kernel sources are kept and maintained by www.kernel.org.
Though most distros include a prebuilt kernel to support most desktops, laptops and servers, there are ways whereby the kernel can be optimized by tuning it only to support the hardware that the linux OS will be installed in. This will increase performance and boot time of the system.
To learn more about configuring and building the kernel, there is a very good book about linux kernels and it is published by O’Reilly. The title of the book is “Linux Kernel in a Nutshell” by author Greg Kroah-Hartman. And in line with the idea of opensource and GPL, the author has made his book to be free for downloading online and has declared it under the Creative Commons license such that anyone can download and redistribute it. For those whom still prefer to hold a physical book in their hands, they can still purchase it from their local bookstores.
To configure and build kernels more easily, SGLNX recommends Kernelcheck, which is an automated script with an easy user interface. “Linux in a Nutshell” can be used to compliment Kernelcheck when configuring and understanding the kernel parameters and options.
Wikipedia’s entry on Kernel(Computing)
Ubuntuforums Kernelcheck HOWTO thread
Kernelcheck’s blog
