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Submission + - Linus Torvalds' company acquired and gone (reviewk.com)

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desmondhaynes

on Thursday November 20, 2008 @03:19AM

desmondhaynes writes: "Transmeta, once a sparkling startup that set out to beat Intel and AMD in mobile computing, announced that it will be acquired by Novafora. The company's most famous employee, Linux inventor Linus Torvalds, kept the buzz and rumor mill about the company throughout its stealth phase alive and guaranteed a flashy technology announcement in early 2000. Almost nine years later Transmeta's journey is over. full story"

Submission + - Cool new features of Google Earth 4.3 (reviewk.com)

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GoogleWatch

on Thursday April 17, 2008 @02:16PM

GoogleWatch writes: "There's a new beta version of Google Earth available which features revamped navigation controls and some slick new layers like 3-D photo-realistic buildings in major cities and time-lapse views of sunsets and sunrises. Also new in Google Earth 4.3 is access to the street view movies found in Google Maps. Just click any of the camera icons and the familiar street view window will pop up. The new navigation controls take some getting used to, but once you have the hang of it they offer considerable more control over panning and tilting. Also handy is the new "North" button which quickly orients your current view by rotating until north is at the top. The sunrise and sunset movies are also quite impressive. Just fly to a location you'd like to see and click the "sun" button in the toolbar. That will bring up a small timeline graphic and you can either hit play or drag the timeline slider to watch the day unfold. See the new features in action"

Submission + - Linus announcing the 2.6.25 Linux kernel (reviewk.com)

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LinuxWatch

on Thursday April 17, 2008 @07:13AM

LinuxWatch writes: "It's been long promised, but there it is now," began Linux creator Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.25 Linux kernel. He continued, "special thanks to Ingo who found and fixed a nasty-looking regression that turned out to not be a regression at all, but an old bug that just had not been triggering as reliably before. That said, that was just the last particular regression fix I was holding things up for, and it's not like there weren't a lot of other fixes too, they just didn't end up being the final things that triggered my particular worries." Linus added... Read more"

Submission + - Ubuntu Hardy Heron: Ready for the masses? (reviewk.com)

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desmondhaynes

on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @01:44PM

desmondhaynes writes: "Is Linux ready for the masses? Is (was) Linux targeted towards the "casual computer users" in the first place? It is heartening to read Computerworld talk of Linux going mainstream with Ubuntu. "If there is a single complaint that is laid at the feet of Linux time and time again, it's that the operating system is too complicated and arcane for casual computer users to tolerate. You can't ask newbies to install device drivers or recompile the kernel, naysayers argue. Of course, many of those criticisms date back to the bad old days, but Ubuntu, the user-friendly distribution sponsored by Mark Shuttleworth's Canonical Ltd., has made a mission out of dispelling such complaints entirely." Read on"

Submission + - First Look: Gimp 2.5.0 (blogspot.com)

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desmondhaynes

on Monday April 14, 2008 @05:04AM

desmondhaynes writes: "The GIMP team announced today the first release from the 2.5 development series. It is true that this version is unstable, but a little bird told me to give it a try and see what's it capable of. First of all, let me tell you that its interface is quite redesigned and I think that some users will have problems adjusting with it, but that's just my two cents. On the other hand, version 2.5.0 of The GIMP includes some hot new features, like the integration of GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) which will finally get support for higher color depths, more colorspaces and eventually non-destructive editing. But enough chitchat, and let's take a closer look at some of the new features and improvements to be found in The GIMP 2.5.0 read on"

Submission + - Google Takes Down HuddleChat After Complaints Abou (blogspot.com)

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desmondhaynes

on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @06:06AM

desmondhaynes writes: "There were striking similarities between one of Google's App Engine demos, HuddleChat (a real-time chat application) and the Campfire app from 37Signals. Google has taken HuddleChat down from the App Engine app gallery." Google explains: "The App Engine team was looking for some sample apps to help kick the tires on their new system, so we invited Googlers to build some as side projects. A couple of our colleagues here built HuddleChat in their spare time because they wanted to share work within their team more easily and thought persistent web chat would do the trick. We've heard some complaints from the developer community, though, so rather than divert attention from Google App Engine itself, we thought it better to just take HuddleChat down." Read on"

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