Eee PC

With Nokia’s defection and Intel’s relative silence regarding the subject, you might think that you’ve already seen the last of the MeeGo operating system. Well, perhaps, but Intel is keeping MeeGo alive in cooperation with Samsung in a new Linux-based open-source mobile OS initiative called the Tizen project. A post on the official Tizen web [...]

Canonical is about to release Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot in a few weeks from now. The beta is already released though so that you can have a preview on how the OS performs. Just yesterday, Ubuntu 11.10 beta 2 is released, it is not completely stable yet but it’s pretty good. Synaptic Package Manager will [...]

Tariq Krim, founder of Jolicloud has confirmed that the company are working on releasing their own branded netbook. Presumably the netbook will also run their own custom Linux operating system of the same name. Krim has shared some photos on Twitter of the netbook and has confirmed it is real. However apart from the pictures [...]

Some netbooks, already come with a built in power management application but, if you’ve installed Linux on top of the default Windows operating system, you will have been missing out on being able to easily switch from high performance mode, to power saving mode. This however, is where Jupiter comes in. The Jupiter power management [...]

It wasn’t that long ago, that we saw the Moblin Linux OS on the MSI Wind U135. Now, the guys over at Notebook Italia have spotted the operating system on the MSI Wind U160. The U160 is essentially the same as the U135 but, with a different chassis and longer battery life. Moblin is generally [...]