Gentoo Linux

The Gentoo Linux operating system (pronounced /'d??ntu?/) is a Linux distribution based on the Portage package management system. Portage is also the name of Gentoo's default package management utility. This package provides, among other useful scripts, the emerge utility, which is written in Python and can be used by privileged users to easily inspect and alter the set of installed packages on a Gentoo operating system. Gentoo Linux is a unique GNU/Linux distribution that compiles all of its software from source code rather than using precompiled binary packages. A faster init system known as initng is available and under active development on the Gentoo forums. Gentoo is arranged much like FreeBSD, except it has command line tools that automate all of the special functions that must be done by hand in FreeBSD. Installation of Gentoo can be completed by following the Gentoo Handbook. Additionally, several other methods of installation are ...
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Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight is a browser plugin and is sort of similar to Adobe’s Flash Player and Flex Framework taken together. Silverlight is essentially a competitor to Flash, and offers flexibile programming that supports AJAX, VB, and C##, and integrates with existing Web applications. Microsoft Silverlight, previously called Windows® Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E), integrates with existing Web technologies and assets to provide higher-quality experiences with lower costs for media delivery. Microsoft has a dominant position with its Windows Media Player, while Adobe enjoys a dominant position with its online Flash player plug-in. Silverlight uses a combination of Windows Media Video (WMV), Microsoft's implementation of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) VC-1 video standard, and support for interactive video that can scale full-screen, high-definition video down to mobile small-screen video. Silverlight compatibility requires a one time download of the Silverlight runtime (about 2MB). Silverlight would enable Move Networks ...
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Intel Z- U130 Solid State Drive

"Solid state drive technology offers many benefits over traditional hard disk drives including improved performance and reliability," said Randy Wilhelm, vice president and general manager of Intel's NAND Products Group. Intel has announced some initiatives, and suggested that it would help mass produce SSD drives to help bring down prices. Intel today jumped into the NAND flash drive market with the announcement of their Z-U130 solid state “drives” (SSDs). Based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces, the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive offers cost-effective, high-performance storage for a wide variety of computing and embedded platforms. The Intel Z-U130 USB Solid-State Drive has a universal serial bus (USB) standard interface and is used as a faster storage alternative for a variety of Intel-based computing platforms such as servers, emerging market notebooks and low-cost PCs as well as embedded solutions. "Our mission is to provide world-class non-volatile SSD and ...
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Canonical Join Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit organization involved in sustaining the growth of Linux, and is supported by various companies around the world. The work of the Linux Foundation revolves around the promotion, protection and standardization of Linux by delivering unified resources and services required for the enhancement of open source software usage. "We look forward to working with them to continue the march of Linux in all areas of computing,” said Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu program manager and CTO, Canonical. Though Canonical is a commercial company, and The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organization, many for-profit companies are members and have contributed to Linux Growth. Many would have expected Canonical to join TLF a long time ago, given how their business revolves around Ubuntu. In response, at the Linux Foundation summit, heavy hitters Canonical, Novell Red Hat formed a new workgroup to speed the process of porting new drivers to older ...
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Google Android

Google Android is a new platform designed to work especially with mobile devices. Android will understand the regular HTML and all standard HTML markups and render any webpage as we see them on our desktops. Android is going to unify how HTML is delivered and viewed by all of us, whether it's on a mobile device with 320x240 resolution, a personal computer with 1280X800 or who knows a holographic retina projector with eye movement tracking technology. Google hopes Android will become the dominant operating system for many mobile phones. Google's Android will not be requiring special Web codings to be displayed correctly. To support you in your efforts, Google has launched the Android Developer Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards — no strings attached — for great mobile apps built on the Android platform. The beautiful sleek smartphone HTC OMNI introduced last July, apparently will be used ...
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