After the huge success with their ultra-portable PC, Asus moves ahead and this time around it would be coming up with a desktop version of the Eee PC. This would be out only next year 2008. To get prices down, Asus would likely be adopting the measures that many other big PC producers have recently taken, that is avoiding Microsoft’s licensing fees. So the Redmond company would likely see Asus sell millions of Eees without windows. It is almost certain that Asus would go for a Linux operating system to get its Eees (Easy to Learn, Easy to Work, Easy to Play) more economic.
The fellow behind Android, Google’s mobile phone, Andy Rubin together with other members of the crew talk about the so-called Gphone. Basically, Android is a Google’s term for a Linux operating system, desktop and applications. Little is known about Android as these guys operate under a cloak of secrecy. The video tries to get us a little closer.
Whilst Google on one hand comes up on the 12 of November with a Software Development Kit (SDK) for developers, on the other it pairs up with Sun Microsystems to provide a matching developer environment for Android based on the Sun’s Netbeans Java developer tools.
gOS, the name says it all, maybe, it is rather a difficult product to present, for a simple reason, it is unique of it’s type. The producer says “consumers, who use Linux and open-source software are rare” so the need to come out with what they call “An alternative OS for the masses” — released under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The “g” in gOS operating system, does not stand for Google, no, the “g” doesn’t stand for anything but gOS has six Google applications loaded; gMail (Google’s e-mail product), Gtalk, a direct link to video on YouTube, a calendar, maps and news. Other pre-installed software are Mozilla Firefox, Meebo, Skype, Wikipedia, GIMP, Xing Movie Player, Rhythmbox, Faqly, Facebook and OpenOffice.org 2.2 (includes Writer, Impress, Draw, Calc, Base) . Other products could eventually be installed by the user; Dave Liu, the founder of gOS, the California start-up that built the open-source operating system says even an iPod will work on gPC
The gOS will run a Green gPC produced by Everex (we are in a gWorld) and this so called gPC will be sold online at Walmart.com and in about 600 Wal-Mart stores at a give-out price of $199, monitors not included.
If you don’t need the gPC but want to try-out gOS, it is now downloadable and would run any PC. gOS is Open Source even though it is not released under the GNU GPL. They thank the Ubuntu 7.10 community for their contribution to gOS and the world.
An open letter to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO by François Bancilhon, CEO of Mandriva. The story began this way; the Nigerian governmentdecided to get 17,000 Intel-powered classmate PCs with a customised Mandriva Linux as operative system for educational purposes. This was a very promising deal for Mandriva that unlike Ubuntu gets fewer of such request from local governments and was going to use this as a spring board for other better deals or “solution” projects in the third world.
It was a good deal until when the customer (Nigerian gov.) announced; “we shall pay for the Mandriva Software as agreed, but we shall replace it by Windows afterwards.”
Who and what is behind this radical change of point of view by the Nigerian gov. could be a mystery but Mandriva’s CEO has no doubt: Microsoft, and so a wounded François Bancilhon wrote this open letter to Steve Ballmer.
This one of the most awesome or wicked( what ever) and original Ubuntu flags I’ve found on the web. It was created by MenZa, a well known participant on the Ubuntu Forum. It is released under a GNU GPL license, hilarious eh.
Naturally, I hope to find big companies coming out with certificate’s of authenticity like this one.
