In case you’re not familiar with it, G.ho.st is a cloud-based operating system. We’ve written about it before, and it’s actually a really cool little service. The performance of their ‘webtop’ had improved quite a bit since I used it last, and their desktop sync app made moving files to and from the cloud a [...]
Ubuntu has been the “Flagship Linux” distro for quite a while now. This is the distro most people judge Linux by (and the only one I personally work with). However, its visual style remained constant for a long time, and has been starting to look a bit stale. It’s difficult to convey “innovation” to end [...]
Bad news for owners of the latest Windows Mobile 6.x devices: your phone doesn’t meet the hardware specifications for an update to Windows Phone 7. Microsoft says that even the brand new HTC HD2 doesn’t meet its tight requirements for the much-talked-about new mobile OS, according to APCMag.
Even though the HD2 has a fast enough [...]
While we try to shy away from gadgets and gizmos here on Download Squad, some attention does have to be paid to operating systems. They are, after all, the reason this blog exists! An operating system makes or breaks a device — it’s the difference between grudging oh, it’s my company phone acceptance and mass [...]
A planned firmware update for the Motorola Droid might benefit owners of other Android devices, too. According to Android and Me, “every Android phone currently released in the United States will be receiving an upgrade to Android 2.1.”
This news comes from the same site that was previously skeptical about Google’s ability to fit version [...]
Microsoft spent much of 2009 testing Windows 7 before officially launching the operating system. And that test involved thousands of beta and release candidate testers, who downloaded pre-release copies of the operating system which they were effectively able to use for free… for a limited time. Now that time is coming to a close.
If you’re [...]
So the Windows 7 deadline is fast approaching. Officially, there’s no way to upgrade from your RC to retail. But in the real world, it only requires a Windows 7 ISO image and editing a single file in Notepad.
Here are the quick text instructions. After the jump you can find detailed (and possibly really boring) [...]
With all the hubbub over Windows Phone 7 Series at Mobile World Congress this week, you’d think it was the only upcoming mobile OS previewed at the event. And you’d be wrong for thinking that, because the folks at Symbian gave us the first look at the upcoming Symbian S^3 platform as well.
Symbian S^3 will [...]
How to convince a Mac OS X or Windows user to try GNU/Linux? Installing the desired distribution in a Virtual Machine? Read them all those FAQs about partitioning your hard drive for a dual-boot system? No, no – there’s an easier way: live CDs or DVDs! Almost every distribution (like Ubuntu, Knoppix or Fedora) are [...]
While the official release of Google Chrome OS won’t be arriving for a few more months, Hexxeh continues plugging away at his Chromium remix — and his latest release is better than ever.
Codenamed Flow (I’ll assume because of the epic Vanilla Ice line “Flow like a harpoon, daily and nightly“), the new version adds loads [...]
