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ASUS Announce 2 New Windows 8 Laptops, Both Available With Ubuntu

With Windows 8 now mere weeks away from launch, hardware manufacturers have been clamouring over each other to announce their latest devices geared towards running it. Interestingly, both of these will also be available with Ubuntu 12.04 pre-installed, indicating that the last batch of Ubuntu netbooks must have sold well for the company…

Getting ready to build ICS from Android Source Code

  • tabletroms; By udayan (Posted by kingrs02 on Oct 24, 2011 1:28 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The day ICS(Ice Cream Sandwich – Android 4.0) will be made open-source is not too far. Once it is out, developers around the world(including OEMs like HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericcson) will start building the source code and start rolling out the update for android devices. But what bewilders me is the need for workstations with no lesser than 16 GB RAM to build the source code(I am not kidding). Ice Cream Sandwich is a Vampire that requires twice the amount of blood that GingerBread needed.