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Chromebooks Are Spreading
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 4th of March 2017 12:15:59 PM Filed under



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Best Chromebooks for business 2017: Should I buy a Chromebook? Chromebook buying advice
Instead of running Microsoft Windows or Mac OS X, Chromebooks support Google's Chrome operating system (OS), meaning that these machines are entirely internet and cloud-based.
Good for those familiar with the Chrome web browser and the Google productivity suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides), not so good for those wanting to perform heavy duty tasks with external applications.
But keep an open mind, if you're looking for a cheap laptop to perform internet-based tasks, such as emails or web browsing, the Chromebook could be a viable option or a great option for a second machine.
Read on to find out the best Chromebooks for business...
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Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms
Apple is losing its grip on American classrooms, which technology companies have long used to hook students on their brands for life.
Over the last three years, Apple’s iPads and Mac notebooks — which accounted for about half of the mobile devices shipped to schools in the United States in 2013 — have steadily lost ground to Chromebooks, inexpensive laptops that run on Google’s Chrome operating system and are produced by Samsung, Acer and other computer makers.
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Apple Losing Out to Microsoft and Google in U.S. Classrooms [iophk: "weird-ass spin there in the title. Apple is really losing to Google, Microsoft is treading water instead."]
According to research company Futuresource Consulting, in 2016 the number of devices in American classrooms that run iOS and macOS fell to third place behind both Google-powered laptops and Windows devices.
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Gentoo-Based exGENT Linux OS Launches with Xfce 4.12.1 and Linux Kernel 4.10.1
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 3rd of March 2017 09:33:21 PM Filed under
GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton shares with us the availability of a new build of his Gentoo-based exGENT Linux-based operating system, which now includes all the recently released technologies and open source applications.
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Gentoo-Based exGENT Linux Distro Ships with Linux Kernel 4.9.8 and Xfce 4.12.1
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 8th of February 2017 02:00:56 AM Filed under
GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton, who is known for many Linux-based operating systems, informs us about the general availability of a new version of his Gentoo-based exGENT Linux distribution.
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Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 17 OS Now Has a Cinnamon Spin, and It Looks Great
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 2nd of February 2017 11:01:23 PM Filed under
Calculate Linux developer Alexander Tratsevskiy announced today, February 2, 2017, the general availability of an official Cinnamon edition of his Gentoo-based Calculate Linux 17 operating system.
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Gentoo-Based Porteus Kiosk 4.2 Released with Linux Kernel 4.4.36, Firefox 45.5.1
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 6th of December 2016 09:38:27 AM Filed under
Porteus Solutions, through Tomasz Jokiel, announced today the release and immediate availability of Porteus Kiosk 4.2.0, the latest stable version of the free and open source Gentoo-based kiosk operating system for web terminals.
Powered by the latest long-term supported Linux 4.4.36 kernel, Porteus Kiosk 4.2.0 ships with some of the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software projects, including the recently released X.Org Server 1.18.4 display server, as well as the Mozilla Firefox 45.5.1 ESR and Google Chrome 54.0.2840.100 web browsers.
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SystemRescueCd 4.9.0 System Rescue & Recovery Live CD Lands with GParted 0.27.0
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 1st of November 2016 08:21:15 AM Filed under

SystemRescueCd, a popular Gentoo-based Live GNU/Linux distribution designed for system rescue and recovery operations, was updated the other day to version 4.9.0, a maintenance release adding new technologies and components.
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Gentoo-Based Sabayon 16.11 Is Out with Linux Kernel 4.8, Supports Banana Pi SBC
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 30th of October 2016 08:54:00 AM Filed under
The Sabayon project has always brought us a modern, rolling, reliable and easy to use GNU/Linux distribution based on the Gentoo operating system, which is known for being notoriously difficult to install.
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Chromebooks: The smart person's guide
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 17th of October 2016 06:58:32 PM Filed under


Chromebooks are any laptop that, under license from Google, runs the Linux kernel-based Chrome OS. Chrome OS is incredibly lightweight, drawing almost all of its interface from the Chrome browser. It also supports Chrome apps, and as of late 2016 will be the only platform to get new Chrome apps.
Chromebooks are manufactured by a variety of vendors, such as Google, HP, Acer, Samsung, Dell, and others. They range in price from the mid $100 range to over $1,200 for the Google Pixel. Educational pricing is available as well.
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GNU Tools Released
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 4th of October 2016 03:19:03 PM Filed under

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Gnuastro 0.2 released
I am pleased to announce the second release of GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro).
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grep-2.26 released
There have been 110 commits by 5 people in the 23 weeks since 2.25. See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
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GNUnet for Gentoo
In summer 2015 I started to package GNUnet for Gentoo as contributor to the youbroketheinternet-overlay.
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How Chromebooks Are About to Totally Transform Laptop Design
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 10th of September 2016 01:27:59 AM Filed under



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How Chromebooks Are About to Totally Transform Laptop Design
Google’s first Chromebook was the kind of laptop you’d design if you didn’t give a damn about laptop design. It was thick, heavy, rubbery, boring, and black. Black keys, black body, black trackpad, black everything. Everything about the Cr-48 was designed to communicate that this device was still an experiment. Even the name, a reference to an unstable isotope of the element Chromium, was a hint at the chaos raging inside this black box. “The hardware exists,” Sundar Pichai told a crowd of reporters at the Cr-48’s launch event in December of 2010, “only to test the software.”
Moments later, Eric Schmidt took the stage and preached about how the “network computer” tech-heads had been predicting for decades was finally ready to change the world. “We finally have a product,” Schmidt said, “which is strong enough, technical enough, scalable enough, and fast enough that you can build actually powerful products on it.” Apparently already sensing the skeptical feedback Chrome OS would get, he gestured toward the audience and told them “it does, in fact, work.”
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7 Reasons Why You Should Buy a Chromebook
Chromebook is a different thing from Netbooks with the fact that it does not have Windows being a huge difference. Chromebooks thus run on a fresh and different operating system that while it is not an old OS it isn’t a desktop kind of OS either but a mobile one.
Chromebooks have pretty hardware, especially if the Haswell processors they are running on, which are energy efficient, are anything to go by. Nonetheless, there are many reasons why buying Chromebooks make a lot of sense.
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