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Google announces Google Chrome OS

Wed, 2009-07-08 23:54

About Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

Facts

  • Lightweight, web focused OS
  • Will work on x86 as well as arm pc's
  • Initial targets the netbook market
  • It's a separated project from Android
  • Uses the Linux kernel

Supposedly even if Chrome OS and Android overlap this won't present a problem. Android remains a mobile phone / smart-phone / netbook operating system and Chrome OS will target netbooks and regular PC's.

Resources

Announcement

Author: CoolGoose

Garmin ditches own Linux OS in favor of Android / Windows Mobile

Sat, 2009-06-20 22:14

According to the company's regional director for Southeast Asia sales, Hektor Tung, Garmin-ASUS is going to ditch their custom made Linux OS (currently used only on their G60 GPS, that should appear in Q3).

Although you would think that their GPS devices will overlap the existing Google Maps solution a reprezentative of Asustek is convinced that there's enough space on the market for both solutions.

Author: webmaster

Qt 4.5, Qt Creator released

Tue, 2009-03-03 12:19

Trolltech, Nokia, Qt Software released QT 4.5 and the final (1.0) version of QT Creator.

From the announcement:

Qt 4.5 is setting the benchmark for application development,” said Benoit Schillings, Chief Technologist, Qt Software, Nokia. “With the performance improvements in Qt, the introduction of Qt Creator, and the release of the Qt SDK, developers looking for a native or a hybrid native/web application framework now have the power and flexibility they need.

Author: CoolGoose

Arch Linux 2009.02 ISO release

Wed, 2009-02-18 00:51

New ISO features:

- Kernel 2.6.28
- Ext4 support. Installation can be done on a ext4 root partition.
- Rescue and maintenance capabilities for Ext4 root partitions
- Fallback ISOs with the ISOLINUX bootloader, for those that have
trouble booting Grub-based images
- Several bugfixes in the installer
- Brought the included documentation up-to-date
- Inclusion of AIF (Arch Linux Installation Framework), the next
generation installer, currently under development.

Author: CoolGoose

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released

Sun, 2009-02-15 17:18

From the announcement:

The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny") after 22 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB.
[...]
This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.22.2, the Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment, LXDE 0.3.2.1, the GNUstep desktop 7.3, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7, Iceweasel 3.0.6 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox), Icedove 2.0.0.19 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird), PostgreSQL 8.3.6, MySQL 5.0.51a, GNU Compiler Collection 4.3.2, Linux kernel version 2.6.26, Apache 2.2.9, Samba 3.2.5, Python 2.5.2 and 2.4.6, Perl 5.10.0, PHP 5.2.6, Asterisk 1.4.21.2, Emacs 22, Inkscape 0.46, Nagios 3.06, Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1 (dom0 as well as domU support), OpenJDK 6b11, and more than 23,000 other ready-to-use software packages (built from over 12,000 source packages).

Announcement | Download | Release Notes

Author: CoolGoose

Wine 1.1.15

Sun, 2009-02-15 14:57

The Wine development release 1.1.15 is now available.

What's new in this release:
- Gecko engine update.
- Better region support in GdiPlus.
- Support for cross-compilation in winegcc.
- Beginnings of MS Text Framework support.
- Many fixes to the regression tests on Windows.
- Various bug fixes.

Announcement | Changelog | Download

Author: CoolGoose

Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS released

Fri, 2009-01-23 12:49

The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, the
second maintenance update to Ubuntu's 8.04 LTS release. This release
includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the
i386 and amd64 architectures.

In all, over 200 updates have been integrated, and updated installation
media has been provided so that fewer updates will need to be downloaded
after installation. These include security updates and corrections for
other high-impact bugs, with a focus on maintaining stability and
compatibility with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

Announcement | Download | Release Notes

Author: CoolGoose

RedHat releases RHEL 5.3 update

Wed, 2009-01-21 04:10

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, featuring the latest open source, commercial-strength technology innovations. In the third update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, customers will receive a wide range of enhancements, including significantly increased virtualization scalability, expanded hardware platform support and incorporation of OpenJDK Java technologies. Customers with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription will receive the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 update, which is available for immediate download from Red Hat Network.

Main new features:

  • Increased scalability of virtualized x86-64 environments (up to 126 CPUs and 1TB main memory);
  • Support for Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) processors:
  • Inclusion of OpenJDK

Announcement

Author: CoolGoose

Linux 2.6.28

Fri, 2008-12-26 03:32

Linux 2.6.28 adds the first version of Ext4 as a stable filesystem, the much-expected GPU memory manager which will be the foundation of a renewed graphic stack, support for Ultra Wide Band (Wireless USB, UWB-IP), memory management scalability and performance improvements, a boot tracer, disk shock protection, the phonet network protocol, support of SSD discard requests, transparent proxy support, several new network drivers, controlable IO CPU affinity, high-resolution poll()/select(), support of a minimal "dummy" policy in SELinux, tracing improvements, x86 x2APIC support, a fb driver for VIA UniChrome devices, Mitac Mio A701 ARM-based smartphone support, some new drivers, improved device support, and many other small improvements and fixes.

Human readable changelog | Download

Author: CoolGoose

openSUSE 11.1

Thu, 2008-12-18 22:44

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.1. The openSUSE 11.1 release includes more than 230 new features, improvements to YaST, major updates to GNOME (2.24.1), KDE (4.1.3), OpenOffice.org (3.0), and more freedom with a brand new license, Liberation fonts, and openJDK. This is also the first release built entirely in the openSUSE Build Service.

Announcement | Download | Feature List[gallery columns="4"]

Author: CoolGoose
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