Matias Vangsnes

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Posts Tagged with "linux operating system"

Valve software announces its games library will come to Ubuntu

Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

Valve, the makers of the popular game-distribution service Steam, has announced plans to convert its software and games for the Linux operating system, specifically Ubuntu. It follows comments made by Gabe Newell, Chief Executive and co-founder of Valve, who said: “I think that Windows 8 is kind of a catastrophe for everybody in the PC [...]

Canonical Ubuntu One Music Streaming

Friday, June 22nd, 2012

Canonical is best known for Ubuntu 12.04, which is widely regarded as the most approachable version of the Linux operating system. Ubuntu One cloud storage and synchronisation is an integral part of recent Ubuntu distributions, but it’s also available to Windows, Android and iOS users. Ubuntu One is completely integrated with the Unity desktop, which [...]

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Splits $1.5 Million Tech Prize

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

Two innovators, including Linus Torvalds, a Finnish American software engineer and the driving force behind the open-source Linux kernel, have won this year’s Millennium Technology Prize, given out every two years by the Technology Academy of Finland. The other recipient of the prize, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, was singled out for his contributions to stem-cell development. [...]

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin review

Friday, May 25th, 2012

How the whimsical naming scheme of Mark Shuttleworth managed to dodge adding a P-adjective to ‘Penguin’, we’ll never know. As founder of Canonical, the commercial company behind Ubuntu, it’s Shuttleworth who pulls these names from his imaginative hat. Ubuntu has employed animal codenames since it was launched as the friendly face of desktop Linux in [...]

Calxeda Demo of ARM-Based Server Ups Ante in Intel Competition

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Calxeda is cranking up the burgeoning competition between Intel and ARM Holdings with a demonstration this week of an ARM-based server running a Linux operating system. Calxeda, which last fall announced a partnership with Hewlett-Packard to develop very low-power systems running on ARM-based processors, on May 7 showed off the prototype server powered by its [...]

Azul Launches Zing 5.2 JVM With Support for Ubuntu Linux

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

Azul Systems, a provider of Java runtime scalability solutions, announced today that it has added support for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Ubuntu support is a key new feature of Zing release 5.2, which will be generally available by the end of May. Zing is a 100 percent Java-compatible native Java virtual machine (JVM) optimized for [...]

Azul Systems Announces Zing Release 5.2 With Support for Ubuntu Linux

Monday, April 30th, 2012

SUNNYVALE, CA, Apr 30, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) – Azul Systems, Inc., the award-winning leader in Java runtime scalability, announced today that it has added support for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Ubuntu support is a key new feature of Zing release 5.2, which will be generally available within the next 30 days. Zing is a [...]

Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal coming in October

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Tweet Email Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin is due to launch in a couple of days. It’s a long term service release of the popular Linux operating system which means support will be available for several years. But the Ubuntu team is already looking ahead toward the next version of the OS. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has [...]

Anonymous Linux OS Authors Still A Mystery

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

(click image for larger view and for slideshow)If you like the hacktivist collective Anonymous, you’ll love a new Linux operating system that promises out-of-the box attack capabilities. That was the pitch for Anonymous-OS, which appeared last week on the popular open-source file distribution site SourceForge. The 1.5-GB distribution file was quickly downloaded more than 26,000 [...]

Ubuntu crests new wave of mobile computing solutions

Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Those of us who travel frequently are always looking for ways to shave ounces from the weight of our carry-on bags. Recent notebook computers have offered an increasingly happy balance of size, power and weight – my current machine is fairly svelte and runs to about 4lb (or just under 2kg) – but road warriors [...]

Ubuntu crests new wave of mobile computing solutions | Dan Gillmor

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Those of us who travel frequently are always looking for ways to shave ounces from the weight of our carry-on bags. Recent notebook computers have offered an increasingly happy balance of size, power and weight – my current machine is fairly svelte and runs to about 4lb (or just under 2kg) – but road warriors [...]

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