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Microsoft contributes to Linux

Suvir — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:30:19 +0000

Check this out. Interested reading. Apparently MS last year became one of the sponsors of the Apache Software Foundation. And now it contributed 20,000 lines of code to the linux kernel to improve Linux Virtualization in Windows.

I can understand why the skeptics like Free Software Foundation say that MD shouldnt be trusted at all. But look at it this way, Linux is a great virtualization option and MS knows that. And MS also wants to sell its virtualization option to its huge business customer base. Its a win-win situation. And as long as its contributing to Linux for the better, lets accept its for the good (with a pinch of salt ) .

Richard Feynman Lectures

Suvir — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:47:21 +0000

Read this off CNET..great piece of news…apparently Bill Gates has been busy after quitting the top job. And he’s been upto a lot of good stuff. Apart from the massive fund set up by the Gates Foundation to combat AIDS, he has also done something he had decided to do in the 60’s.

He has put online the entire Richard Feynman lecture series at the Microsoft Research website(http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html). Its really amazing quality and if you like physics but it was probably never presented to you the right way [like the kind of crap they teach in first year engineering], go check this out.

Great stuff, too bad it cant be downloaded. But you gotta appreciate Gates for actually buying the rights and putting it online for free viewing.Kudos!

P.S. Scribefire aint all that bad

Google Chrome OS!

Suvir — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:40:14 +0000

Just read the feed..Yes that’s right..google is coming up with its own OS called the Chrome OS.

Its supposed to be out by 2010 and it will be initially released for net-books. This seems like one good potential challenge to Microsoft’s monopoly on the OS market. Google already dominates the internet with its search engine and plethora of other useful apps, and this is probably the logical next step.

I wonder what the OS would actually be like.

My expectations from chrome..sort of a wish list..

Good looks : Having seen google all this while, i dont doubt that.
Resources : Should be easy going on the machine ( duuh, it first releasing on netbooks)
Great interface : Of course, its google! I think it will be a neat minimalist interface. Probably X.org for graphic server and some google’s own desktop environment.
Kernel : Hmm..would probably be the linux kernel itself
Open Source : The press release already says that it will “allow third party developers to design compatible add-ons”. And I think that should be good enough for a start. But I hope it really allows you to get under the hood like linux and do what you want.
Integrable with other OS : It should have some sort of greater integrability with windows, for those who want to use both. Something like what Ubuntu does, where you can launch ubuntu after booting into windows.
Instant startup

The statement “We hear a lot from our users, and their message is clear: computers need to get better, Chrome is “our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.”". Wow!

Let the long awaited revolution begin…