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I’m quite highly anticipating the release of Google Chrome OS – Google’s net book and appliance cloud operating system. There are a few main reasons behind this.
Simplicity and Openness
Note that I combine the two here. It is very important that both software user friendliness is combined with the nature of free and open source software to prevent device and
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Ubuntu 10.04, currently in development, has hit the second alpha release. As a quite update, here are some of the features you can see in the Alpha 2 release of Ubuntu 10.04.
A new graphical boot screen manager called ‘Plymouth’ which is to replace the currently used xsplash and usplash boot screen systems.
The user menu and power/session locking
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It turns out that Avatar, the hugely successful science fiction epic film from James Cameron, was rendered using a huge Ubuntu rendering server farm, at Weta Digital.
The Weta Digital server farm or ‘rendering wall’, as they call it, has a disk array capable of storing roughly 2 petabytes of data in total. The individual servers are linked
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I previously discussed some of the new social networking aspects coming in Ubuntu 10.04. These mainly focus on the brand new Me Menu which is a personalised menu that holds and controls all your social networking and assists with broadcasting to microblogging services. Some related changes are the new changes to the indicator applet and
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Social media and social networking are huge now-a-days, with Twitter, Facebook and the like being hugely successful at keeping friends and family in touch. Now only that, but social networks are huge for charities, with many causes being supported and heavily promoted via social networking. Corporations and business use social networking too to promote their products and
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Google have released a very simple explanatory video, aimed at new computer users, detailing their new operating system which is focused around the Google Chrome web browser. If you’ve ever needed to ask, what is the difference between Google Chrome OS and Google Chrome, this video explains the answer in the simplest manner possible.
Google Chrome
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So, you’ve recently downloaded an ISO disc image in Ubuntu and want a quick and easy method to mount it as a drive?
Simple. Locate the file within your file browser and give it a right-click, then from the pop-up menu click ‘Open with Archive Mounter’. Archive Mounter is a tool which mounts several types of
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What is open-source software?
Open-source software is software which is under a special type of license in which the source code, which is usually copyrighted, is instead open to all. Specifically, this refers to code which meets the Open Source Definition for code licensing or is released to the public domain, and thus available without any
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The first alpha version of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, which will be known as Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (long-term support) upon release, is now available for download. Want to get it immediately? See the Ubuntu Lucid Lynx alpha download links below.
32-bit Desktop Edition – x86 Desktop edition of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Alpha 1
64-bit Desktop Edition – AMD64
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The general update policy of Ubuntu states that application versions will be kept stable during each Ubuntu release other than in exceptional cases. Obviously security patches are still applied when available. This does mean however, with the recent release of Firefox 3.5 that Ubuntu users will have to wait until Ubuntu 9.10 until officially receiving
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