The archives for June 25th, 2008


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Seamless windows on Virtualbox

You want a demonstration of the transparent modality of virtualbox? Here a screenshot of example that resumes a window of resources of the perfectly integrated computer of winxp in my Ubuntu Hardy Heron:  seamlessvirtual.pngHow it is made? Following my guide for the installation and configuration of Virtualbox and, once installed winxp like guest, it is necessary a simple Ctrl Shift L.

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Nokia buys Symbian

Nokia acquires Symbian and the news could calmly pass unnoticed and catalogued like a simple share buying and selling action, if it were not for the announcement of the formation of the Symbian Foundation. The foundation comprises members of the bore of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, AT&T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone, and all will have approached the code of Symbian under a licence royalty-free. The idea would be that to join Symbian, S60, UIQ and MOAP in order to create a platform open source for dispositive furnitures in a position to contrasting the O.S of LiMo Foundation and Google Android. But sapete qual'è the more important news? At least from my point of view it is the renewed interest that Nokia extension towards the open source. It very makes to hope; you do not believe?