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A Look at Android Apps on Chromebook
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 24th of May 2016 04:34:23 PM Filed under




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A Look at Android Apps on Chromebook
When Google announced this week that future Chromebooks (and some current ones) will be able to run Android apps, a booming thunderclap spread across Silicon Valley — and could be heard in the four corners of the world. This news is indeed a game changer, reported nicely here in video form by The Verge.
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For the first time, Google beat Apple in PC sales — and that's really bad news for Microsoft
Today, two very important things happened for the future of the PC as we know it.
First: For the first time ever, low-cost Google Chromebook laptops outsold Apple's Macs during the most recent quarter, analyst firm IDC tells The Verge.
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Gentoo-Based Calculate Linux 15.17 Finally Switches the OS to KDE Plasma 5
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 20th of May 2016 08:37:27 PM Filed under

Today, May 20, 2016, Calculate Linux developer Alexander Tratsevskiy proudly announced the release and immediate availability for download of Calculate Linux 15.17.
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Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 20th of May 2016 09:14:10 AM Filed under



Google's low-cost Chromebooks outsold Apple's range of Macs for the first time in the US recently. While IDC doesn't typically break out Windows vs. Chromebook sales, IDC analyst Linn Huang confirmed the milestone to The Verge. "Chrome OS overtook Mac OS in the US in terms of shipments for the first time in 1Q16," says Huang. "Chromebooks are still largely a US K-12 story."
IDC estimates Apple's US Mac shipments to be around 1.76 million in the latest quarter, meaning Dell, HP, and Lenovo sold nearly 2 million Chromebooks in Q1 combined. Chromebooks have been extremely popular in US schools, and it's clear from IDC's comments the demand is driving US shipments. Outside of the US, it's still unclear exactly how well Google's low-cost laptops are doing. Most data from market research firms like IDC and Gartner focuses solely on Google's wins in the US.
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Gentoo-Based Sabayon 16.05 Linux OS Switches to the Latest Linux 4.5 Kernel
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 30th of April 2016 12:37:09 AM Filed under

Earlier today, April 29, 2016, the developers of the Gentoo-based Sabayon Linux operating system have announced the release of the respin ISO images for the month of May of 2016.
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Tesla hacker installs Gentoo and can now watch movies on the Model S’ 17-in display
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 22nd of April 2016 09:59:43 AM Filed under
For obvious safety reasons, most jurisdictions across the US and the world prohibit someone from driving a car if a “video monitor” is clearly visible from the driver’s seat. Hence why even though Tesla’s 17-in center display could certainly be capable of playing videos, the automaker disabled any video playing capabilities other than the video feed from the rear camera.
It didn’t stop a hacker who recently managed to install Gentoo, a Linux-based operating system, in her car and can now play videos directly from her Model S’ 17-in display.
I am using ‘her’ here because the hacker is staying anonymous but goes by ‘Hemera’, the Greek goddess of daytime.
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Gentoo and Funtoo Linux Users Can Now Enjoy the GNOME Desktop Without systemd
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 18th of April 2016 06:55:42 AM Filed under
We have recently stumbled upon a new project on GitHub, called GNOME Without Systemd, which promises to deliver a systemd-free experience of the GNOME desktop environment to Gentoo and Funtoo Linux users.
The GNOME Without Systemd project, which is, in fact, a collection of useful information on how to install GNOME without the systemd init system, saw its initial commit this past weekend, on April 16, 2016. You may want to know that it appears to have been put together by Dantrell B., a contributor to the Gentoo Linux and Gentoo Linux operating systems.
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Sabayon 16.04 GNOME Screenshots
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 12:32:34 PM Filed under
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Acer Chromebook 14 arrives with aluminium chassis and 14-hour battery life
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 31st of March 2016 10:00:23 AM Filed under



PC MAKER Acer has unveiled the Chromebook 14, a premium-looking Chrome OS laptop that claims a MacBook-rivalling 14-hour battery life.
Acer, perhaps not best known for premium devices, added the aluminium-clad Chromebook 14 to its laptop line-up this week. This is Acer's first all-metal Chromebook, and the chassis with rounded corners weighs just 1.55kg.
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Gentoo-Based Sabayon 16.04 Linux Brings Kernel 4.4.6 LTS and AMD Crimson 15.12
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 28th of March 2016 03:42:10 PM Filed under
The Sabayon Linux rolling release operating system based on the powerful Gentoo distro has just been updated today, March 28, for the month of April 2016, and new ISO images are now available for download.
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Chromebook/Google/Gentoo Security
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 16th of March 2016 11:20:19 PM Filed under


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Google has doubled its bounty for a Chromebook hack to $100,000
Google doubled the bounty it will pay for a successful exploit of its Chromebook laptop to $100,000, sweetening the pot in hopes of drawing more attention from security researchers.
The larger reward is intended for someone who finds a persistent compromise of a Chromebook in guest mode, according to Google's security blog on Monday.
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Google's Bug Bounty for a Chromebook Hack Rises to $100,000
We've reported a few times on bug bounties--cash prizes offered by open source communities to anyone who finds key software bugs--ranging from bounties offered by Google (for the Chrome browser) and Mozilla. This open method of discovering security vulnerabilities has been embraced at Google, especially. In fact, Google has offered up as much as $1 million to people who identify key vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser.
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According to a Reddit thread, a Chromebook user recently spotted a new Terminal app added to the app drawer when running on the latest Chrome OS Dev channel. Clicking the icon would apparently prompt the user to install the Terminal app, which requires about 200 MB of disk space.
The installation prompt notes the fact that the Terminal app can be used to develop on your Chromebook. It also suggests that users will be able to run native apps and command-line tools seamlessly and securely. Considering the fact that Chrome OS is powered by the Linux kernel, this can only mean one thing.
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