Today we’re going to take a brief look at Androidx86, a project designed to bring the famously awesome Google Android Operating System to the big wide world of x86 processors – specifically netbooks. Compatibility The Android x86 project is mainly aimed at getting Android running out-of-the-box on netbooks. As such the following netbook models are [...]
It’s almost that time again – time to start chatting up the next release coming out of the Ubuntu-verse. I know, I know…it seems the tires of 9.10 were just kicked. They were. Ubuntu 9.10 was well received, but now something bigger and better is coming around the corner. But what should be expected of [...]
Lucid may not be getting a new GTK theme but it will still be getting an entirely new look.Ubuntu’s Ayatana team (most famed for creating those awesome ‘new’ notification balloons that came in Jaunty) are currently testing a super-duper enhanced version of GTK+ that adds RGBA support (think Windows Aero) and client side window decoration. [...]
1. Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list file with an entry “deb-src http://host/debian distribution section1 section2 section3″ like this. 2. apt-get update 3. apt-get source This will download three files: a .orig.tar.gz, a .dsc and a .diff.gz. In the case of packages made specifically for Debian, the last of these is not downloaded and the first usually won’t [...]
Malware has been found hidden inside an innocuous ‘waterfall’ screensaver .deb file made available on popular artwork sharing site Gnome-Look.org. The .deb file installs a script with elevated privileges designed to perform a DDoS attack as well as keep itself updated via downloads. The dodgy screensaver in question has since been removed from gnome-look and [...]
Firefox is one of the biggest players in the desktop browsing space, but when it comes to browsing the Web from a mobile device, Mozilla hasn’t made the leap. That’s all going to change soon, as the first version of Firefox Mobile (previously known by its codename Fennec) is being prepped for release by the [...]
