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Portable Ubuntu for Windows

April 5th, 2009 Jigish Thakar No comments

Portable Ubuntu for Windows is a Ubuntu system running as a Windows application.

This system is built with the Colinux Kernel, Xming X server and Pulseaudio server for Windows.

Portable Ubuntu for Windows is a useful tool when you need to move yourself to other machine that have Windows as operating system.

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Developers to get Windows 7 pre beta next month

October 11th, 2008 Jigish Thakar No comments

Microsoft will be showboating Windows Vista, mark two 7 at its forthcoming Professional Developer Conference (PDC) event next month, where developers will be able to get their mitts on a pre-beta build of the operating system.

Meanwhile, the yawnfest surrounding speculation about what the OS will (or won’t) come loaded with continues to mount in the blogosphere. Yep, MS is stripping Windows 7 down to its pants, vest and a Ribbon. Read more…

Symbian: Linux unfit for mobile phones

October 9th, 2008 Jigish Thakar No comments

Symbian has told the world that as open source operating systems go, Linux is unfit for mobile phones.

“There’s been a lot of misleading information over the years…about the fitness of Linux for the mobile space,” Jerry Panagrossi, vp of Symbian’s North American operations, told industry insiders this morning at the GigaOM:Mobilize conference in San Francisco.

“There has been wonderful work, fantastic work in the Linux community in the workstation and PC space, but when you drag that over into the mobile space, there is an entirely different domain with a different set of challenges that handset managers must overcome.

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