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, December 2nd, 2009
Many of us grew up using DOS and eventually became the slaves of Windows and all its’ variants.
Converting to use the opensource operating systems such as Ubuntu, Mandriva, Moblin or Fedora means giving up some of the usual ways of computing we’d gotten so used to. Though there are similar applications in Linux performing the identical functions as the Windows counterparts, there are still some applications which are native to Windows and will not run on Linux.
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Tags: 3d, bsd, direct3d, emulation, Innotek, linux, opensource, operating system, os/2, osx, Solaris, Sun Microsystems, virtualbox, virtualization, Vista, windows, WINE, xp
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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
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