Quite sometime back, we had written a tutorial which showed you how to run Android OS on your Windows based PC. Another Android Live CD distro for EEE PCs and other x86 (32-bit) platform is now available. The Android-x86 project, is a project to port the Open source Android OS to work on a x86 platform.

The linux.conf.au 2010 has opened today at Wellington, New Zealand. Today’s event was attended by a number of people and is a gathering of free and open source software enthusiasts from around the world.

The complete list of Fedora 13 features are less than a month away from being finalized. This next release of Fedora, has been under development from even before the release of Fedora 12. One primary addition to the feature list is seen as the Btrfs file system. Even as the release is a few days away, features are continuously being added to the next release.

Microsoft wants to award Miguel de Icaza as a Most Valued Professional! Primarily a Mono developer, Miguel de Icaza is at Codeplex Board of Directors too.

Google says they will implement and upgrade their existing ext2 filesystem to ext4.

SuperGamer is the world’s first Dual Layer Live DVD and is fully focused on games like Quake 4, UT 2004, Doom 3 besides others.

The latest version of Amarok, named Amarok 2.2.2 “Maya Gold” has added a new feature of Moodbar. This moodbar can be changed according to our mood. Also, editing of lyrics is now possible with a simple keypress.

Deluge, the popular Bit Torrent client has just released their version 1.2.0. Deluge is completely written in Python and uses GTK+ for the front-end. It is specially made for the XCFE and Gnome desktop environments. Deluge offers fast torrent downloads and has support for multiple trackers.

Yes, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has passed a budget plan which proposes the inclusion of Open Source software in areas like health care, prison and many other to bring down costs by considerable amounts.

The plasma desktop effect of KDE is remarkably beautiful. It not only looks beautiful, but also has a good amount of usability. But, the interface is available by default only on the KDE desktop environment.
Here is an easy way to get the effect on Gnome along with Emerald and Gnome. The tutorial works on Ubuntu Karmic Koala.

Splashtop is one of those application which makes eye-candy out of low power, low memory and small laptops, namely the netbooks. Netbooks seem to be the next big thing. We saw it with the fast paced development of netbook OS last year and now with netbooks stealing the show after smart-phones, everywhere.

Zack Whittaker will start using Ubuntu 9.10, starting Monday, the 11th at Midday London time and even better, will live blog his experience. This event if successful, can help Ubuntu reach even more of audiences who are still afraid to use it.

Wine is a Windows emulator for Linux OS, which enables you to run various native Windows programs and applications, like games, mp3 players, torrent clients and so on inside Linux, without the need of any technical knowledge. The new development release of Wine, Wine 1.1.36 is now available for download.

Did you all know, Avatar used graphics designed by a four time Academy Award winning visual effects facility based at New Zealand. It has done graphics for X-Men, did it for I Robot and now, it has also done it for Avatar.

The folks at lesswatts.org have devised a number of ways to save power with Linux. The results have been obtained from continued stress-testing on all mobile, desktop and server machines and have been favorable so far.