Netbook OS

Someone has discovered another Windows secret they call GodMode. Basically, it is a folder you have to create and once created, it will contain all system configuration shortcuts that you will need when you think of changing some of your settings. It’s like a Control Panel with more controls. ...

I recently availed a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, and in case you don’t know, I own an Asus 1000HE. Now the thing is, earlier netbooks came with Windows XP, and direct upgrade to Windows 7 is not available. To take the new operating system to my netbook, I had to follow some special [.....

Google has finally released the source code of its Chrome OS by the name of Chromium OS so developers can play with it. Since the release, a lot of people have also had their chances to try the OS via VMWare. I honestly didn’t find time to try it myself, but thanks to MakeUseOf for [...]...

A blueprint is showing that sooner or later, the Ubuntu Netbook Remix will drop the “Remix” part and use “Edition” instead. It will probably happen when the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx comes out, but this is just my personal guess. “Ubuntu Netbook Remix has now been a part ...

October 22nd marks another day in the history of Windows Operating Systems. Windows 7, which I honestly haven’t tried yet, is officially released for everyone and available for purchase for as low as $199.99 for Windows 7 Home Premium Edition – the cheapest and most commendable version f...

Hercules is one of the brands I am not familiar with very much, but it looks like I could pay more attention now that they announced their EC-1000W Netbook. The netbook comes with 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB RAM and 250GB HDD which are pretty much standard for today’s netbooks. It has a 10.1...

When Asus Netbooks came to the world, the tiny little computer breathes by the help of Xandros that comes pre-installed as the primary OS. It is light and at the same time lets you use your netbook to surf the internet and do some office tasks from out of the box. Now there’s a rumor [...]...

Easy Peasy is a Linux distro fully based on Ubuntu, designed specifically for netbooks. To the uninitiated, it is the formerly known as Ubuntu EEE. And while I now have my Asus 1000HE, I decided to install Easy Peasy 1.0 on my old EEE PC 701. But my initial attempt did not bring me luck [...]...

Moblin 2.0 is a Linux based operating system designed specifically for Intel Atom based netbooks. It is one of the lite OS around that promises ease of use and completeness at the same time. I just downloaded a copy of a Live USB image so I gave it a shot to have some little testing. After [...]...

Google Chrome OS is an operating system being built specially for netbooks (i hope it’s an instant-on/quick OS). It was announce earlier this week and after that, some leaked photos proved its existence. The Google Chrome OS is an open-source project and you know what it means. Basically, this...