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Google Chrome Operating System
(Is the beginning of a new era?) Google finally announced on its official blog Google Chrome their new Operating System project as "a natural extension of Google Chrome" and "our attempt to re-think how they should be operating systems (! ).
Basically, this is an operating system that will be released as Open Source this year based on Linux and designed (at least initially) to netbooks x86 and ARM architecture. Google Chrome OS include its own windowing system and user interface minina because "most of the user experience will take place on the web" using the Google Chrome browser, of course.
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Linux Mint 8 developed in Launchpad and GitHub
Linux Mint is one of the distributions for the desktop based on Ubuntu more careful and friendly, with even an active Hispanic community. Now, as it prepares to develop its next version 8 "Helena", Clem Lefebvre, lead developer of Linux Mit revealed some details about the new tools of his team.
Such as Launchpad, collaborative development platform recently released by Canonical, Linux Mint used primarily to monitor their errors (bug tracking), translations and drafts (blueprints), but have plans to take the rest of the services offered for other work soon.
Playdeb Beta 2
And after several months of work, people GetDeb and announced the Beta 2 version of Playdeb (formerly Playbuntu), the site compiles a collection of games recommended for Ubuntu to a method of easy installation and upgrade.
Playdeb is a separate repository, which has several Mirrors around the world, so there we can always find the latest games but these have not been included in the official Ubuntu repositories. And better, Playdeb, apparently, will be included in the forthcoming Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala".
Open Source Project Watershed: how old is your distribution?
Open Source Watershed is a new project with an interesting idea: take 9 of the best known distributions and compare the versions of software packages that include the most recent available at this time. This allows you to order these distributions according to the "rate of obsolescence," or how far the package is newer each.
From the data collected so far, apparently updated every 24 hours., That are the latest Arch Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu (in the first, second and third, respectively). At the opposite extreme, the more "obsolete" are Slackware, Debian and OpenSUSE.
Lubuntu: a new Ubuntu based on LXDE?
The blog project LXDE is said that members of his staff were in contact with the community of Ubuntu and Mark Shuttleworth himself to discuss some type of formal collaboration that will allow them to answer the question "When released Lubuntu?" Receiving with increasing frequency. Thus, at a meeting in Berlin with Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ltd. proposal to become a self perpetuating a project within the community of Ubuntu.
This would enable them to manage from LXDE Ubuntu and eventually offer its own distribution derived from Ubuntu, "Lubuntu. For the time domain lubuntu.org and redirects the LXDE project site.
The crack driving the penetration of Linux in enterprises
The corporate software company Novell announced that a market survey conducted by the consulting firm IDC and sponsored by the company shows an increase in the acquisition of Linux from the current global recession.
As companies seek to reduce costs and increase profits, are attracted by the economic advantages that Linux offers, and more than half of executives in information technology (IT) respondents are planning to accelerate deployment of Linux in 2009 .
Announcing the Ubuntu Open Week
Today I learned that just announce Ubuntu Open Week (Ubuntu Open Week) taking place a week after the release of Ubuntu 9.04, from April 27 to May 1 in the IRC channel # ubuntu - classroom on Freenode. The sessions are held from 1500UTC to 2100UTC (With a special session on Monday night).
Ubuntu Open Week (Ubuntu Open Week) is a week full of lectures through the IRC, which addresses a range of subjects related to Ubuntu obviously. It is designed to help people to get involved in the community of Ubuntu.
Linux Alternatives to Photoshop
Photoshop is one of the best programs that I have tried for editing images and photos. But unfortunately does not offer a version for those of us who use Linux.
However all is not lost because the great strength of Linux users and there are a large number of projects that try to fill the gap for this program on GNU / Linux.
Then I leave with you a list of the best known and most powerful image editors on Linux:
Manage Partitions in Linux
To manage partitions on Linux we have several alternatives (though we can not say they are too). The alternative to Partition Magic on Linux is called parties, an open source program that lets you add, delete and modify the size of the partitions, but with two major differences with respect to Partition Magic.
First, parties not only works with fats, NTFS and EXT s: can also be HFS and HFS + (a type of partitioning used on a Mac), ReiserFS, XFS, and UFS. The second major difference is that part is free of course.
99.2% of viruses attacking Windows
The virus remains a problem for all who use the Internet as a tool for work, leisure or to review some mail, a study by the German company has announced that GData 99.2% of the virus are focused on the platform of Microsoft, in this way Linux users can remain calm and Mac too, although the same Apple said that viruses have increased attacks on Mac OS X.
In 2008 the virus has risen by 600% a significant number, although last year there was no "big virus" that does not mean that we are safe, all types of viruses have a goal, a specific injury, so never open emails from unknown source, do not open attachments of any kind, because the malicious code in Flash files has grown significantly.
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