Shogo Linux Tablet, a Potential iPad Killer: There is a new tablet PC in town that runs Linux, and its name is Shogo. Made by realease, a Hong Kong-based platform provider, this device features a 10-inch capacitive touchscreen and will be available in two models: one has a Freescale i.MX37 (ARM 11) processor; the other model is loaded with a Freescale i.MX51 (ARM Cortex A8) processor.

The Shogo tablet has tons of cool and useful features making it a potential iPad killer. On the hardware side, it has 1 external USB, 2 internal USB, motion sensor, Ethernet connector, microphone and headphone ports, front-facing web camera (2-Megapixel), ambient light sensor, accelerometer, and more. On the software side, the device is running Linux but we don't have further details about it. It could be Android, or could be a heavily customized Linux distro. However, it's certain that it will rely on HTML5-based applications, it will have Flash support, and it will feature Android-compatible development platform.

Since the Shogo is 100% open, developers can easily tweak its interface and functionality to suit users' needs. Obviously, the device is not marketed for a particular purpose because it's highly flexible and can be whatever you want it to be.

Cool, isn't it? For those of you who are interested, the Shogo will be available for consumers later this year and the unit price is at $500 USD.

World's Funniest Windows Error Messages: We all know how it sucks to see error messages. If you have been using Windows all your life, you have probably seen lots of them already.

Since some people have learned to look at the bright or should I say funny side of life, they have decided to create something out of those error messages. They have Photoshopped or edited some Windows error messages and made them look so realistic to try to tickle our funny bone.

I want you all to sit back, relax, and enjoy our collection of some of the world's funniest Windows error messages:

BSOD must be closed

What will you do now?

Missing keyboard

Just a bug

Too much uptime

Bad Office Assistant

Windows has performed an illegal operation

The operation completed successfully... or not!

Microsoft EULA violation

Deleting data on a free space

Totally understandable EULA

Everything's messed up

Just an Error Reminder

The Missing Tips File

Windows Hardware Update

What would you do now?

Blackmail!

The end of the Internet

Random error

Replace user

Error deleting files

Too much errors

Remind me next year

From a Russian ATM machine

Is the last one real or not? I hope you had fun but if you want more amusing stuff, you may want to check these out:

Before, we have featured here some of the best Free and Open Soure backup software for Linux. As I've already explained, a backup software is essential for recovering important files when disaster happens. Since there are still several excellent free and open source backup software that I failed to mention the last time, I decided to once again gather another list of some of the best backup software that are available for Linux.

BackupPC
BackupPC is a Disk-to-disk backup software suite that is considered as one of the most popular free and open-source backup software. It has a web-based frontend with no need for client as the server is itself a client for several protocols, which are handled by other services native to the client OS. BackupPC is using a combination of hard links to reduce the total disk space utilized for files. During the first full backup, each and every file is transferred to the backend, optionally compressed, and then compared. All similar files are hard linked and use only one additional directory entry.



Areca Backup
Areca Backup is a personal file backup software written in Java. It includes a backup engine, along with a graphical user interface and a command-line interface. It has been designed to be as simple as possible to set up with no complex configuration files to edit. It is also flexible since it can use advanced backup modes (like "delta backup") or simply produce a "basic" copy of your source files as a standard directory or zip archive (readable by WinZip or other archivers). Areca Backup will also allow you to interact with your archives and the files they contain. You can track different versions of a specific file, browse your archives, recover or view specific files, and merge a set of archives.



DirSync Pro
DirSync Pro (Directory Synchronize Pro) as described from its project website is a small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. It can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively. DirSync Pro offers a graphical user interface from which the user can manage and run multiple synchronization tasks, and you can also use it via the command line that makes it very flexible for running in batches. It supports local folder to folder synchronization, but does not allow synchronization via FTP. DirSync Pro is self-contained within its own directory, and is therefore fully portable.

luckyBackup is a fast and reliable free backup application that has a graphical user interface (GUI) based on the cross platform Qt libraries and is not fundamentally console based or web based as many of the clients from the list of backup software are. Its GUI is already translated in many languages and is notable for its availability directly from the repositories of all major Linux distributions including Debian, Ubuntu, openSuse, Fedora, Mandriva, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo. luckyBackup shares the data differencing and copying tool, rsync, with BackupPC, rdiff-backup, and several others.

Partimage
Partimage is a free and open-source disk backup software. It can save partitions in many formats to a disk image. Using Partimage, partitions can be saved across the network using the Partimage network support, or using Samba / NFS (Network File Systems). This provides the capability to perform a hard disk partition recovery after a disk crash. Aside from running as part of your normal system, Partimage can be loaded as a stand-alone from the live SystemRescueCd, which is helpful when the operating system cannot be started. SystemRescueCd is packed with data recovery software for Linux that you may need.

Mondo Rescue
Mondo Rescue is a reliable free disaster recovery solution. It backs up your Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R(W), DVD+R(W), NFS or hard disk partition. Mondo Rescue supports several filesystems including LVM 1/2, RAID, ext2, ext3, ext4, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, VFAT, and can support additional filesystems easily. It also offers support for software raid as well as most hardware raid controllers. Mondo runs on all major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE, Mandriva, Debian, and Gentoo. However, you can use it to backup non-Linux partitions like NTFS if needed.

tar is a file archiver that is designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile. A tarfile may be made on a tape drive; however, it is also common to write a tarfile to a normal file. Originally created to be written directly to sequential I/O devices for tape backup purposes, it is now primarily used to collect many files into one larger file for distribution or archiving, while preserving file system information such as user and group permissions, dates, and directory structures.

Pandora, the Linux-based handheld game console that is aimed to take advantage of free and open source software is finally shipping. After two years of development, the OpenPandora developers are finally sending out the first completed batch of the game console to consumers.

Pandora may look like a slightly bigger Nintendo DS but its hardware and software architectures are not closed down and it is open for home-brew development or hacking. It can also serve as a subnotebook and run as a low-power but full-featured Linux desktop.


Pandora is also designed for the emulation of older computer systems and video game consoles. It has working emulators for Dreamcast, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Amiga, SNES, Atari Jaguar and Sega Mega Drive software.

Some of the known technical specifications of Pandora:

* Runs the Linux kernel (2.6.x)
* 800x480 resolution touchscreen LCD, 4.3-inch widescreen, 16.7 million colors (300 cd/m2 brightness, 450:1 contrast ratio)
* Texas Instruments OMAP3530 System-on-Chip with Cortex-A8 600 MHz Processor
* 256MB DDR-333 SDRAM
* 512MB NAND FLASH memory
* IVA2+ audio and video processor (based on the TMS320C64x+ DSP Core at 430 MHz) using Texas Instruments' DaVinci technology
* ARM Cortex-A8 superscalar microprocessor core
* PowerVR SGX 530 (110 MHz) OpenGL ES 2.0 compliant 3D hardware
* Integrated Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
* Integrated Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR (3Mbit/s) (Class 2, +4dBm)
* Full gamepad controls plus shoulder buttons
* Dual SDHC card slots (currently supporting up to 32GB of storage each, supports SDIO)
* Headphone output up to 150 mW/channel into 16 ohms, 99dB SNR
* TV output (composite and S-Video)
* Internal microphone plus ability to connect external microphone through headset
* 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
* USB 2.0 OTG port (480Mb/s) with capability to charge the Pandora
* Externally accessible UART for hardware hacking and debugging
* Brick prevention with integrated bootloader for safe code experimentation
* Estimated 8.5-10+ hour battery life for games, 10+ hour battery life for video and general applications, and theoretically 100+ hours for music playback (with backlight off and maximum power management)


Pandora is priced at around $330, and if you are interested in buying one, you can contact gp2xorders@gmail.com. I hope they will set up a page soon where we can easily place our orders.

Will you buy a Pandora game console?

Installing Android on the iPhone - Do you feel jealous of your Android-using friends? Are you sick and tired of your iPhone's locked up OS? Are you fearless enough to install Android on the iPhone? If you answered yes to any of the questions above, perhaps it's about time to install Android on your iPhone.

David Wong (aka Planetbeing), the one who ported the Android Operating System on the iPhone, has written a complete guide on installing Android on the iPhone 2G and 3G models. Although the step-by-step tutorial is very detailed and straightforward, you should take into consideration that the hack may temporarily brick your iPhone if not done properly. So it is not for the faint of heart.

As noted by Planetbeing, the hack is still a work in progress. "Although this port does everything that you expect your smartphone to be able to do, it isn't usable for day-to-day activities just yet", he said. Power-management functions are still not implemented that a fully charged iPhone running Android will only last for about an hour. There are also bugs and performance issues that have yet to be solved.

Some of the prerequisites of installing Android on iPhone:

* Jailbroken iPhone 2G (first-generation) or iPhone 3G with firmware versions between 2.0 and 3.1.2. The hack will not work on iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch, and the iPad.
* A 32-bit Linux system
* Firmware for the Marvell WLAN
* iPhone prebuilt images and binaries

So how do you install Android on the iPhone? Read this carefully.

* 15 Awesome Mandriva Linux Wallpapers
* 15 Minimalist Linux Wallpapers for a Distraction-free Desktop
* 25 Awesome Slackware Wallpapers
* 20 “Really Cool” Netbook-optimized Linux Wallpapers
* 15 Cool iPhone-optimized Linux Wallpapers

Hence I feel that it's about time to have another list of fresh and cool Linux wallpapers to customize your desktop. Most of the wallpapers that I’m about to show to you are new and may have never been seen before by most of you, so enjoy and feel free to download some of those that you like:

Linux Style

Throw Out that Crap

Sudo Do it A$$hole

Ubuntu Stripes

Linux Muse

Dark Root

Linux 2010 Calendar

Sudo Suck it Up

Tux Minimalist

Ubuntu Robot

Powered by Linux

Open your Source

CrunchBang Debian

Mint Landscape

Ubuntu Clear Minded

Linux Power and Freedom

It's a Trap

Linux Hi-Tech

Linux Means Freedom

Ubuntu Light

Fedora Dark Minimalist

Debian Chicken

Google Chrome

Free Software

Ubuntu Pirate Bay