So, I’ve had this latest Google Phone, the Nexus One, for a couple of weeks now, and I thought I’d write down some of my experiences. I’ve had smart-phones & PDAs in the past, all of them Windows Mobile variants, but I must say, this Android phone really blows my mind… Of course, being an [...]
This is my first post from my nexus 1. I haven’t been blogging much but hopefully this new application will change that, so keep an eye out! The best thing about the nexus 1 is that you can dictate what you want to write. Of course this isn’t perfect, since the application still makes quite [...]
Some time ago, The Linux Foundation opened up a contest for creating a promotion video for Linux… These are the winners, enjoy… 1st place: 2nd place (my favorite): 3rd place (also better than the winner imho :p): Congratulations to these authors! – Extra (this movie was included in the 5 finalists, but unfortunately didn’t make [...]
I’ve stumbled upon an interesting article lining out the 2009 roadmap for CodeWeavers. CodeWeavers is the commercial implementation of the Wine project, allowing Windows applications to run on Linux & Mac platforms. The CodeWeavers people have already put in great support for DirectX 9 in their latest version for gaming, and it seems they are [...]
Over at Computerworld, there’s a very interesting article about the new version of Samba. For the first time, there is a real alternative for Microsoft Active Directory on Linux. While the FOSS world already has a certain amount of Directory Servers like Apache Directory Server, Fedora Directory Server, OpenDS and others, none of them have [...]
An American woman is claiming Dell and Ubuntu are the reasons why she wasn’t able to attend her college education. This is quite shocking, so what happened here? Well, this person ordered a laptop with Dell as having such a machine was a requirement to start her education. Apparently the machine she ordered came with [...]
Over at informationweek.com one of their authors has posted an article about what needs fixing in Linux. While I’m not going to repeat what they said there (I’m sure you all can quite read it for yourselves). I do want to discuss a few things about it here. It seems that this writer does not [...]
More good news in Linux-land. It seems that Moonlight, the open-source version of the Microsoft Silverlight platform, is soon going to be releasing a beta version of their 1.0 branch. This is very good news indeed, as it will enable Linux users to run Silverlight websites natively. Since the development is sponsored by Novell, and [...]
Great news from the Linux front! Debian has launched their newest invention/toy, the screenshot repository, which you can access on screenshots.debian.net. This new database is to provide screenshots (duh!) of all the applications in their packages repository. Before installing you will now be able to see how an application will look before you actually install [...]
Adobe has announced yesterday the release of a 64-bit version of their popular Flash player. Currently the player is in beta-phase. This version is currently only available for Linux users, and can be obtained here. This decission was made because 64-bit Linux distributions don’t ship with a 32-bit browser by default. Neither do they usually [...]
