A slightly harder—if not more interesting—program that simulates resource allocation on a computer system. HOST stands for Hypothetical Operating System Testbed, a multiprogramming system that manages resources in a four-level priority dispatcher. Taken straight off the Operating Systems Internal and Design Principles textbook by William Stallings, this is my second assignment in the COMP3520 Operating Systems Internals course taught at Sydney University.

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Today, I’d like to take a look on a newcomer of Linux Distroes family, this distro called “Element”. Element is a free and yet powerful multimedia operating system. As you can see, the developer of this distro have managed to combine both Ubuntu as a powerful Linux distro with the other multimedia software elements. As I can see, the developers have managed to show the users that “Linux” is not as boring as they’ve seen before. Things inside Element OS looked really cozy and it makes users to feel more comfortable with it. I personally enjoyed watching videos with XBMC media center on my full HDMI LCD TV.

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I’m back for posting again after a few month of vacuum in this blog. I’m truly sorry for that because I have to focused on my college subjects. Since I already have passed the whole subjects, now it is the right time for me to start to make more postings for AllForLinux.com

I already missed a lot of things in Linux world, now let’s try to catching up on some Linux news:

1. Gnome 3.0 shell has been released(maybe a long time agoo), but that’s not a big deal since I just came back from the death
2. Ubuntu 10.04 is set to be released on 29 april 2010, it’s quite a good news since I had a bit of compatibility problem with the current Ubuntu version(9.10).
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3. The next version of Ubuntu(10.10) codename has been released, Maverick Meerkat. Well, it’s way much better than Marlyn Monre
4. Avant Windows Navigator 0.4 final has been released(installation tutorial will be added soon!)
5. gThumb 2.11.x Removed From Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx; Latest Version Adds Facebook Export

Well, that’s only some news that I can provide to you, I’m promise you that I will give tutorials, reviews, & more news about Linux.

Cheers!

Another Linux distro has been released, this time emphasising speed and low space. I reckon it’ll be perfect for netbooks. Lots of improvements needed, but the potential is there. See Slitaz Linux.

After a long hiatus, Google has finally spoken up and released a (beta) version of Chrome for Linux. As ever with the techies, it’s accompanied by xkcd-style comic. Visit this link.

Quick facts from the Google Team about Chrome for Linux that they sent to me via email:
60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
23 developer builds
2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code contributors