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Google Gadgets Join Dashboard Widgets As KDE Plasmoids 28

Posted by timothy from the kde-where-everything-is-possible dept.
Balinares writes "As another sign of Google's growing interest in the Linux desktop, according to a Google developer, the Linux implementation of Google Gadgets will be able to run natively as KDE Plasmoids. After Mac OS X Dashboard widgets, this is the second major widget library to be supported in KDE Plasma."
Data Storage

Google Health Open Platform Is Great — Or Awful 179

Posted by timothy from the now-that's-a-dialectic dept.
JackPowers writes "The Google Health APIs enable portable, standardized, open architecture, extensible personal health records, which is nice but boring if they're just used to manage the paperwork of the doctor/patient relationship. But once the data is set free, all kinds of Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 apps are possible. This article looks ahead 10 years at Best Case Scenarios. A follow-up article lists the Worst Case Scenarios."
OS X

Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week 432

Posted by timothy from the or-not dept.
4roddas writes "Reports circulated Wednesday that Apple may demo the next iteration of Mac OS X next week or even release code to developers in preparation for an early-2009 launch. According to an account on Mac enthusiast site TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog), Apple may provide early copies of Mac OS X 10.6 at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which opens Monday and runs through next Friday in San Francisco. Mac OS X 10.6 will run on Intel-based hardware only, said TUAW, and so will mark the ditching of support for the older PowerPC processor-equipped Macs. Apple announced it would shift to Intel processors three years ago, and unveiled the first systems in January 2006; most analysts have said that move is largely behind the reason for Apple's renewed success selling personal computers. It has never disclosed how long it would support the PowerPC with OS upgrades, however. Ars Technica also weighed in Wednesday on Mac OS X 10.6; its sources pegged with OS with the code name 'Snow Leopard.'"
Operating Systems

How to Turn a PlayStation 3 Into a Linux PC 276

Posted by timothy from the sleek-box-of-ubuntu dept.
MahariBalzitch writes "Popular Mechanics shows step by step guide on how to install Ubuntu Linux on a PlayStation 3 and still keep the PS3 gaming functionality. Now I just need to get my hands on a PS3." Not bad specs for the price, either, since Blu-Ray players still aren't cheap. And though the article calls the procedure "somewhat complicated," it's a lot simpler than was installing Linux from floppies not so many years ago.

Comment Re:Useless (Score 1) 75

by BlackIce_101 (#12727089) Attached to: CNET to Award Open Source Initiatives
Let's face it, the award is a meaningless token from cnet to the open source community in hopes that we'll stop disliking them, mosey over to download.com, and click on one or maybe even two of their banner ads.

It costs them absolutely nothing to pick some random project and give it a $13 plastic trophy. Some assistant will probably pick the first piece of open source software that pops into his head and write a quick suckup speech which boils down to:

blah blah blah... changing the world for the better... blah blah... raising the bar... blah blah blah blah... tremendous innovation... blah blah... we all wish we could be like you, it's just that you have such ridiculous notions... blah...

then all will be smiles and clapping and we'll all die a little inside..

On the other hand, as has been mentioned, publicity is always good no matter how trite the reason. My advice? CARPE DIEM OPEN SOURCE!!!

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