Tag: netbooks

  • MeeGo 1.0 and Maemo5 PR 1.2 Released

    While I was busy with the randomness of life, awesomeness hit the world of mobile Linux. Maemo5 PR 1.2 Released For all you proud owners of Nokia N900s, go and upgrade to the recently released PR 1.2 update for Maemo5.  This update really, really improved the performance of the phone.  Better multimedia playback, faster browsing…

  • Linux… the Future of Computing

    I’m a Linux user.  So I always like to strain my ear to hear news about Linux.  But this I didn’t expect. Caroline and I did a bit of computer shopping before going to watch a film together on Saturday.  While we wandered the aisles in the nearby Futureshop, she turned and asked me what…

  • Windows? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Windows!!!

    I just read this article on Phoronix on the Phoenix HyperSpace quick boot Linux. So a quick boot Linux partition installed side-by-side with Windows is nothing new. It happened early last year. Rather what this article shows is the increased awareness of Linux in the vendor space. It also shows that vendors will ditch their…