UPDATE 5/31/2010 – thanks to bibitte This script is not valid anymore (well it works, but there is a newer, better method). use this PPA repository, you can see instructions here: http://code.google.com/p/gma500/wiki/PPARepository A little heads up to every angry Intel GMA 500, “Poulsbo” chip-powered netbook owner who has not been following this great thread on [...]
I am writing this now because Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is still in beta and we can help, by letting Canonical know what is wrong with the distribution before the stable release hits the “markets”. Open source is not a democracy, but companies use beta versions to do “field testing”, right? We all want to make [...]
Posted on January 3, 2010, 00:06, by Greg, under
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General Productivity,
Hardware,
In Development,
Linux,
Online apps,
Open source,
Software.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]