Archive for the ‘In Development’ Category

Linux and FOSS-related Predictions for 2010

First, I’d like to wish a Happy New Year to everyone! 2009 has been a very interesting year (at least as far as tech goes) and I’m sure we will see some amazing stuff this year, that is why I would like to make a few brave predictions. I am very excited about 2010, we [...]

Opera Mobile 10 beta scores 100% on the Acid 3 Test

While articles about awesome new browser features and WebKit are mushrooming around the Intertubes, mobile browsers for lower-end phones are ignored a lot in the media nowadays. With Android and the iPhone OS as the main players in today’s industry, devices featuring mainly touch input, lots of software for i.e. Symbian and less popular platforms [...]

LXDE 0.4.2 Review and Screenshot Tour

I am a big fan of light desktop environments. Well, most people looking for a lighter alternative normally settle for a lightweight window manager, such as Fluxbox or AwesomeWM.
When the new version of Knoppix came out earlier this year, it caught my attention that the project dumped KDE3 for LXDE, an environment I’ve only heard [...]

The Pointlessness of Google’s Chrome OS

I was initially reluctant to write a post about Chrome OS, seeing as  Engadget and the other heavy machinery immediately posted murky “details” about Google’s new lightweight operating system, even though everyone fully knew that any screenshots and technical data were most likely fake (as a side-note, I find Gizmodo’s “deep reading” Chrome OS article [...]

Exciting Technologies Coming to Linux

The first half of 2009 is over and after your summer vacation, you might want to start gearing up for the new distro releases. Once again open source proved that developers collaborating all over the world deliver constant platform improvement. Let’s see what they have in store for us this time.
KSplice – Rebootless Kernel Upgrade

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