As the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project works toward a release this year of its low-cost laptop aimed at children in developing nations, work has continued on the device’s Linux-based operating system and on Sugar, the innovative user interface for the radical new laptop design.
The OLPC’s Sugar interface, which runs on top of a [...]
Cory Doctorow: Multiple surveys confirm that females outnumber males online in the US, with “no significant gender gap in Internet usage.”
eMarketer estimates that there will be an estimated 97.2 million female Internet users ages 3 and older in 2007, or 51.7% of the total online population. In 2011, 109.7 million US females will go online, [...]
Cory Doctorow: Word is that the Canadian government will bring down a new copyright law this spring. The proposal is meant to be similar to the terrible Bill C60 that the last government proposed (and didn’t manage to enact), but even worse, with harsher “anti-circumvention” rules.
“Anti-circumvention” is the idea that it should be illegal to [...]
An anonymous reader writes “Microsoft says there are over 1,000 applications you can run on Windows Vista with few, if any, issues. However, Windows app’s number in the tens of thousands. Add to that the facts that x64 Vista versions don’t support legacy 16-bit code, and that the Windows Resource Protection in Vista breaks some [...]
Adobe recently created a media buzz with the announcement of a cross-platform Web-enabled runtime environment, code named Apollo. The environment allows developers to create applications that run directly on the desktop while using content from the Web. Adobe has built Apollo to leverage existing technologies such as Flash, Flex, HTML, and AJAX. Apollo is an [...]
One thing must be said from the start: Microsoft Vista is a modern operating system that offers a variety of genuine improvements over Windows XP. On top of that, Vista also looks much spiffier than its predecessor. Even so, there are a variety of reasons not to blindly reach for Vista. A consideration of the [...]
There’s no dearth of Linux distributions. This isn’t the first time I’ve said this. Neither will it be the last. But why the chaos? Why are there more failed distributions than successful ones? Ask the distro guy, Ladislav Bodnar, maintainer of DistroWatch.com. Excuse me if the above sounds like those 15-second commercials during super bowl. [...]
