Just stumbled upon the page explaining the “MeMenu” concept, to be fully implemented in upcoming releases of Ubuntu. I like very much the Rationale under this project. With the other news, such as the music store that’s just opening, it seems more and more difficult not to love Ubuntu, in my humble opinion ! š
Interesting comparison between the expected features of the upcoming operating releases from Microsoft and Ubuntu.
Broadly speaking, it seems hard to deny that linux on desktop is getting more and more appealing with time… Problems remains in the lack of certain “key applications” (as iTunes, or Photoshop); its avaibility could drive many user to linux, IMHO…
Two forces are at work here, then: the immediate utility of a social service pre-populated with people you know, combined with the habitual behaviors associated with checking your email throughout the day.
Interesting article on the recently released Google Buzz, the social network built from Google in a close connection with its popular Gmail service. The main advantages and limits of the new services are correctly explained, IMHO.
They have a 2 Petabyte disk array, 10gbps networking, and 35,000 cores (4,000+ HP blades) in their data center, and still it takes 48 hours to render some of their graphic sequences.
According to Paul, Ubuntu is at the core of all of this,
Ok, I still have to see the film. Anyway, I think that it’s fairly impressive just reading about the computational power that nowadays it’s needed to produce a film like Avatar! Additionally, I must admit that my “open source” side is pleased to know that they are using Ubuntu on their machines… š
They have a 2 Petabyte disk array, 10gbps networking, and 35,000 cores (4,000+ HP blades) in their data center, and still it takes 48 hours to render some of their graphic sequences.
According to Paul, Ubuntu is at the core of all of this,
Ok, I still have to see the film. Anyway, I think that it’s fairly impressive just reading about the computational power that nowadays it’s needed to produce a film like Avatar! Additionally, I must admit that my “open source” side is pleased to know that they are using Ubuntu on their machines… š
Interesting and detailed article on Nepomuk, the semantic desktop technology that is already part of the KDE platform: two of the “driving forces” behind the project, explain the Nepomuk features and also those that have already been introduced in Mandriva Linux 2010. One of the many signs of tight connection between Open Source and innovation…
