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Chrome's mission: Making Windows obsolete

First, for those who think that Chrome is simply a failure from the word "go", their reasoning is pathetically flawed. They argue that Chrome will fail because it's based on Linux. What century are these people from? The specific complaints, such as ...

From STEVEN J. VAUGHAN-NICHOLS, LXer,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

Ubuntu's Canonical and Google partner to create Chrome

Some people may see Google's Chrome operating system as competing with existing Linux desktop distributions. Canonical, the company behind popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, isn't one of them. They're working with Google to make Chrome. Sources at ...

From STEVEN J. VAUGHAN-NICHOLS, ComputerWorld,  19 Nov 2009

Google Chrome operating system's first appearance scheduled

While Google is remaining mum about all the details, I've learned that they will be demonstrating the new Chrome, Linux-based desktop operating system on Thursday, November 19th. At this point, I don't even know if they'll be releasing it as a beta, ...

From STEVEN J. VAUGHAN-NICHOLS, ComputerWorld,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Linux powers the fastest computers on the planet

Once upon a time, supercomputers used special vector model processors to achieve their then remarkable speeds. Then, at the turn of the 21st century, people began working out how to achieve record-breaking computer speed by linking hundreds or ...

From STEVEN J. VAUGHAN-NICHOLS, ComputerWorld,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jaguar,  IBM,  Novell, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  AMD

The old vs. the new Linux desktop

You want to know the funniest thing is about compared Corel Linux 1.0, released in 1999, with a typical modern desktop Linux -- say, Ubuntu 9.10? How much hasn't changed. It's sort of like comparing the then-current Windows 98 Second Edition and today' ...

From STEVEN J. VAUGHAN-NICHOLS, LXer,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Intel,  Hans Reiser

Microsoft does the right open-source thing

In a note on Microsoft's open-source Web site Port 25, from Microsoft's Peter Galli, a former colleague of mine as it happens, said that "After looking at the code in question, we are now able to confirm (that GPL code from the ImageMaster open-source ...

From STEVEN J. VAUGHAN-NICHOLS, ComputerWorld,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Lenovo returns to the Linux desktop

Lenovo might not describe their return to the Linux desktop like that, but that's what they're doing. Yesterday, November 12th, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs gave the world a sneak peak at the Lenovo ARM Snapdragon-powered smartbook, a cross between a ...

From STEVEN J. VAUGHAN-NICHOLS, ComputerWorld,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Qualcomm,  AT&T Inc.,  Paul Jacobs,  Google Inc.

Opinion: Linux desktop turns 10; world yawns

Computerworld - I began using Linux as a desktop operating system around 1993, two years after Linux was created. Countless developers, engineers and hackers were doing the same. But at that point, it wasn't what most people would recognize as a ...

From STEVEN J. VAUGHAN-NICHOLS, LXer,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Cowpland,  Microsoft Corporation

OpenSUSE 11.2 Arrives

I'm not going to review the latest release of openSUSE, 11.2, here. For that, you can look forward to reading my head-to-head shoot-out of Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.10, and sometime soon. What I can say now though is that if you're interested in a solid, ...

From STEVEN J. VAUGHAN-NICHOLS, ComputerWorld,  12 Nov 2009

Where is the Linux desktop going?

This will put Windows in an interesting spot. Mac already owns the high end, and Linux will end up with the low end. At the same time, more and more of our work will be done with online services, with Google Docs and the like, almost all of which are ...

From STEVEN J. VAUGHAN-NICHOLS, LXer,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Steve Ballmer,  Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Novell, Inc.

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