It may very well be an old news already, but it’s so amazing I just have to share it. Fabrice Bellard wrote a more or less full PC emulator in Javascript. And, unsurprisingly, Linux can run on it ! I’m not talking about ajax or some kind of client-server communication. Linux runs entirely in your browser, and uses the HTML 5 local storage as disk space. I say WOW, check it for out yourself: http://stud.hro.nl/0814604/jslinuxdemo/emulator.html
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Gnome 3 out soon !
I just realized that Gnome 3 is gonna come out in 3 days from now. Looking at the screenshots it does seem a game changer release. And an imminent one: Releasing awesome in: 2 days, 20 hours, 19 minutes, 11 seconds I just wonder how long will it take to have it packaged on Maverick (and no, upgrading is not an option for now). Check out the video !
Frogs cast social founding into the future
I have been in France several times, and I’m very happy to see a french website being first to adapt a relatively new paradigm like Flattr. Flattr, co-founded by Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde, is a service which enables users to vote things up and have their (arbitrary) monthly fee shared among all things voted. You can think about Flattr as a Digg with real money. While this is no breaking news, it’s pretty cool what Numerama website …
Android Live CD
Want to try Android without downloading the SDK or buying a G-1 ? Look no further, download the Live CD ISO (roughly 90mb), fire up your VirtualBox and tell me what you think about it !
Clever windows management for Gnome
I’ve just come across this mockup for Gnome 3, and I find it pretty cool Not that everything is desiderable but you can find some clever concepts in there: colored decoration basing on the application (so alikes look alike) notice how the maximized window contains the systray. easy and drag and drop based minimize and move-to-desktop. What do you think ?
Ubuntu Satanic Store issue cleared up
I’ve been warned by Jono that the Satanic issue with Canonical is solved. Now, that’s fast ! Heya everyone, OK, I checked into it and I have managed to clear this up. Some kind of mistake occured and the Ubuntu Satanic Edition folks should not have got that letter. I spoke with our trademarks folks and they will be sending them an explicit trademark license as their merch is clearly under parody, which we are …
