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Worse still, most Netbooks also came with a Linux-based operating system installed which didn't go down terribly well with consumers bought up on Microsoft products. Since then things have improved dramatically and the latest crop of netbooks hitting ...

UberGizmo Basically, it works by installing a native Linux version of the FCEUltra NES emulator from within a Debian chroot. Head over to this wiki page for the step by step. You can also check out a quick demo video embed after the break. Palm Pre Gets Linux-Based NES Emulator Gizmodo.com

While Windows may not be UNIX-based, its two biggest competitors - Mac OS X and Linux - decidedly are. With Linux and Mac OS X gaining in popularity all the time, you could even say that UNIX is making a comeback (assuming it was ever gone). ...

While desktop Linux adoption has yet to go completely mainstream, recent indicators show that a major change is underfoot. Linux is primed to take the PC market by storm as more enterprises recognize the value proposition that Linux offers business ... OS News - OS News

Then figure in that there are other choices of OS, Windows Live Family Safety doesn't work on OS X or Linux. If a person has a child and that child uses any OS besides Windows, that child can see porn vids without ever leaving a trace behind or even ...

Its strong Linux roots and close alignment with upstream desktop Linux technologies would make it a more appealing option than Android for many third-party developers and hardware makers who don't want to get locked into Android's insular ecosystem. ...

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Today, you still need to do some hunting for a Linux desktop equipped PC. By the end of the year, Linux desktop netbooks, laptops, and PCs are going to be everywhere. Dell's offerings of Linux pre-installed have been weak and half-hearted. ...

Besides, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and Linux desktop share has not appreciably increased by many metrics despite being completely free to get and install. You know people are running out of ideas when Mark Shuttleworth talks about ...

So when it comes down to it, Linux is not going to dominate the desktop because the developers don't want it to. See, it's not the developers who complain about Linux not dominating the desktop. (I develop open hardware, BTW.) It's the users who do all ...

 MA The software is already included in the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, but can be downloaded for other Linux distributions at download.openoffice.org. Although a bit more technical, the free Wine program ( www.winehq.org) lets Linux run many Windows ...

By Adam Pash Web site and Adobe AIR application TiltShift gives your photos a tilt-shift photography effect that normally requires expensive special lenses or Photoshop chops. TiltShift works either on its web page (where it's Flash-based), or you can download TiltShift for free as an Adobe AIR ap...

Linux hardware support has improved a great deal over the past few years, but there are still a few troubled spots. With computer motherboards, for instance, the core functionality is generally there and most consumer motherboards will "just work" with ...

 Australia - Stephen Withers by Stephen Withers Windows' continuing loss of web share is primarily to the benefit of Mac OS X, though Linux and mobile platforms are also picking up share. While Windows still accounts for almost 88 percent of web use as measured by Net Applications ...

Do not forget Linux slowly but steadily keeps growing. Linux wont come with a "bang" but merely like a slow bout steady flood. Last remark - do not forget this 1% only relates to the desktop. For servers (also cheap file servers etc. ... I don't get it you guys OS News all 2 news articles

 NY - Matthew McKenzie To get an idea of just how much choice and flexibility Linux offers, I suggest visiting Distrowatch.org. Even if one excludes listings that refer to other operating systems (such as BSD) or to dead-end projects, the site still offers links to well over ...

By Kevin Purdy Linux only: Back In Time, a Linux backup app inspired by Macs' Time Machine and offering the same kind of no-worry, space-saving snapshot protection, is worth adding to your must-install list. Back In Time is a free download for GNOME or KDE-based Linux systems. Auto-updating repositori...

He suggested a touchscreen device that would run Firefox and maybe Skype on top of a Linux kernel. "The machine is as thin as possible, runs low end hardware and has a single button for powering it on and off, headphone jacks, a built in camera for ... CrunchPad Photos "Leaked" OS News

ABC News  CA Also, how is conflicker suppose to cause any damage using a protocol that almost no one has adapted? by ghormax April 1, 2009 8:59 AM PDT abhi_jais, I have Linux on my PC and I am also not worried. Ubuntu Linux is user friendly and easy to install. ...

By Kevin Purdy Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Close'n Forget, one of the runners-up for Mozilla's Best Firefox 3 Extensions, has updated to, well, actually work more often, erasing any site's cookie/history/AwesomeBar evidence from Firefox with one button click.

By Jason Fitzpatrick Firefox Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox is the grandchild of the venerable Mosaic browser and free-roaming son of Netscape. Although Firefox has a myriad of user-friendly, forward-thinking features, a decently secure framework, and an open-source ideology, the most prominent is its e...

By Kevin Purdy Windows/Mac/Linux: ShortcutKey2URL is an ideal Firefox add-on for anyone who visits certain sites so often, they'd save serious time with just two key motions instead of typing out a URL (or learning some AwesomeBar magic). ShortcutKey2URL [Firefox Add-ons via Mozilla Links]

by Leigh Dyer The new SUSE Studio tool make it easier than ever before for millions of system admins to build their own custom Linux systems, and share them online. I can't help but be amazed at how malleable the concept of the operating system is ...

 CA Both Macs and PCs will run Windows and Linux so logically the compatibility issue is Apples, not Microsoft's. Have you noticed that most open source software runs on Linux and Windows? Mac OS is anti-open source. Apple is pro-DRM, and makes everything ...

RE: Dudes, it's not all about Linux Whether you like it or not Microsoft still owns the desktop market and anything they do on their platform has to be relevant to us as Linux desktop users. Flash/Silverlight type widgets and applications are cropping up everywhere and if Linux users ...

By Jason Fitzpatrick If want to keep the menubar around but don't want to have to go through the hassle of right clicking and activating it every time you need it, Hide Menubar is a great compromise. Until you press the ALT key, the menubar stays hidden giving you that sliver of screen real estate back. When you need...

By donotreply@osnews.com () Smolt is a hardware profiler developed by Fedora Project to enable users to submit their hardware profiles during installation. Smolt, like PackageKit from Fedora is also a distribution neutral tool and collects stats anonymously and sends it to a central database . The tool is also comp...

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols We still don't have Adobe Photoshop Elements for Linux. But, since we do have Google's Picasa 3 for Linux you may never miss it. read more

By Kevin Purdy One clever/obsessive Linux theme crafter has released a XpGnome script that adds custom icons, controls, backgrounds, colors, and makes many other tweaks to make a GNOME desktop look almost exactly like Windows XP. The drawback is that there's no easy uninstall/undo, so creating a dum...

By Adam Pash Windows/Linux: Free application Go-oo is a fork of the popular Microsoft Office alternative OpenOffice.org with a focus on improved speed and performance. If you've ever used OpenOffice.org, Go-oo's load speed may blow your mind the first time you launch it, and it maintains a relativel...

By Gary Richmond A few weeks ago I discussed the main features of the Chrome browser and Google’s motives; at that point I was like the poor child, nose pressed against the window pane, looking inside at the sumptuous feast at the master’s table. I, like all GNU/Linux users, hadn’t been invited. Same as ever. C...

To put the XO laptop in Windows and Linux versions through its paces, we turned to an expert--the 8-year-old daughter of a CNET News editor.

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Any way you measure it, 204.5 millions lines of code or $10.8-billion dollars of development costs if Fedora 9 had been a proprietary program, Linux is both an amazing achievement and an amazing bargain. read more

By Kevin Purdy Ubuntu 8.10, the next release of the Linux distro we looked at earlier this month, will have a much-requested "DarkRoom" theme available, though the lighter Human remains the default. A full screen of the DarkRoom desktop is below. [via]

By Kevin Purdy Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): FfChrome, a free add-on for Firefox browsers, lets users who do a lot of link-grabbing, picture saving, and other right-click-type operations decide exactly what they should see when they right-click anything in their browser. Once the extension is ins...

By Kevin Purdy Windows/Linux only: The Giveaway of the Day web site is offering up the "Professional Edition 2.0" of EASEUS Partition Manager, a free tool for formatting, moving, and resizing partitions on a hard drive. In addition to the tools offered in EASEUS' (previously mentioned) free version, t...

By Kevin Purdy If you're a Windows user and only have time to try out one of the right-click tools we've gathered here, FileMenuTools is a safe bet for maximum utility. It doesn't get as in-depth as some of the utilities it rolls together, but it lets you create contextual file actions, improve your Send To...

The computing industry is familiar with the low-cost lab known as the garage, a historic hot-bed for innovation, and this week LinuxWorld had its own "garage" to showcase embedded Linux..

By Adam Pash Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe AIR): Free Adobe AIR application Flump downloads all the photos from a user-specified Flickr account to your hard drive. It's a simple one-use application: You provide it with a Flickr ID or username, tell it where to save the photos, and click Start Flump. We've...

By Benny Goldman Wilson caught this limited edition Red OLPC at the company's headquarters near MIT's campus in Cambridge today. The limited edition run of 100 is made for developers working on the dual boot Sugar Linux and Windows XP system, and has specs identical to the regular OLPC, except 2GB of RAM 2G...

By Adam Pash Windows/Mac/Linux: Freeware application Phantasmagoria adds effects to your digital photos through a slick, simple-to-use interface. The program provides an impressive range of effects and can upload the results to photo-sharing site Flickr or easily share your results over Twit...

By Jackson West I guess the company will make their coin providing support to the device manufacturers who use the JavaME mobile platform or the JavaFX suite of multimedia tools — competing with other application development environments such as Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. Problem is, Sun...

By Kevin Purdy You can get decent photos out of a standard, consumer-grade digital camera, but a little post-processing can turn them into fantastic wide-angle landscapes. You don't need to be one of those people who can explain the concept of lateral chromatic aberration to get truly eye-catching di...

By Kevin Purdy Linux only: We've seen how visualizing your hard drive usage can help you clear the biggest space-eaters and make room for more useful information, and KDE-based Linux users have a great tool to do that. Free download Filelight scans your hard drive and displays space usage on a colored ra...

When you're trying to find someone online, Google's not the only game in town."The 20 Best iPod Utilities While Linux is pretty efficient with a computer's resources out of the box, there are still ways you can make it run leaner and meaner on your desktop."

By Kyle Pott Tired of running 5 different operating systems to check your web design against different browsers? Web app BrowserShots takes screenshots of sites on different browsers using different operating systems including Windows, Mac, and Linux. Supported browsers include: BonEcho, Fir...

By Alexander Grundner The title pretty much says it all. Alan Cooke at Missing Remote takes readers through a journey of selecting the best-bang-for-you-buck PC parts to integrate into a $1000 budget HTPC project. It's worth noting that the guide does not go heavy into detail as to which OS or PVR software to use o...

By Grant Robertson Filed under: Audio, Design, Photo, Video, Linux, Productivity, CanonicalUbuntu Studio has received a fair bit of attention. The multi-media production offshoot of the popular Linux distribution is worth a look for audio production but, according to Linux.com, leaves a lot to be desir...

By Paul Miller Apparently you don't need to be a non-profit crazy, or nab few million pre-orders, to sell a laptop for $150. Medison, a Swedish consulting company, has just unveiled its Medison Celebrity laptop, which sports standard hardware, a 14-inch WXGA screen, an optimized Fedora Linux install...

A look at the various factors holding desktop Linux back – including the group that is ultimately responsible.

The first laptops should roll off the assembly line in October of this year. Known as the B4, the laptop is the result of an intense collaboration by a large number of high-tech businesses and organizations, including OLPC, AMD, Google, Intel, Red Hat, eBay, and the open-source community.

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