Posts Tagged ‘netbook’
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
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.
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Tags: ARM, atom, collaboration, cpu, GUI, intel, meego, mobile, moblin, moorestown, netbook, Nettop, nokia, opensource, phone, smartphone, user interface, x86
Posted in Cellphone, Distro, Hardware, Netbook, Nettop | 4 Comments »
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
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.
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Tags: 1080p, acceleration, atom, geforce, hd, intel, ion, movies, mplayer, netbook, Nettop, trailers, vdpau, video
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
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
Read the full article here at liliputing.com
Tags: Distro, foxconn, liliputing, netbook, OS, xp
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Monday, December 21st, 2009
Earlier this year, there were many reports that linux operating systems was losing market share of netbooks.
But this is about to change very fast.
Linux Is Regaining Netbook Market Share Quickly – O’Reilly Broadcast.
SGLNX strongly believes that with the upcoming release of Google’s Chrome OS, market share will be recaptured for sure!
Tags: chrome, google, linux, netbook, operating system, OS
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Moblin has recently announced its version 2.1 of the project for download.
At SGLNX, armed with a first generation ITX Intel Atom 230 mainboard and a MSI Wind U100-Plus N280 netbook, the live USB image was tested on the 2 hardwares and an attempt to do a full install was also done on another USB stick.
This second USB stick was used to boot this “natively installed Moblin” to test the portability of the Moblin operating system across different hardwares.
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Tags: atom, Distro, intel, ITX, Kernel, live, Live CD, LiveCD, moblin, netbook, Nettop, opensource, operating system, usb
Posted in Distro, Hardware, ITX, Kernel, Moblin, Netbook, Nettop, Tips & Tricks | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Google has so far been successful in deploying the Chrome web browser to Windows users. Though not exactly multi-platform capable yet as variants of Chrome browser for Linux and Mac OSX are still in development.
Today on 8th July 2009, Google surprised the world with its announcement of developing a CHROME OPERATING SYSTEM.
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Tags: ARM, browser, chrome, Distro, google, netbook, x86
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