The Nook Tablet Review

It's raining cheap tablets. Amazon Kindle Fire is one of the new entrants in the arena. But it all started with Barnes & Noble Nook Color tablet. That tablet, was released last year & made headlines across the cyberspace. Once rooted, it turned into a full fledged tablet. Now, Barnes & Noble have announced a successor to the tablet. It is called The Nook Tablet. It isn't available in India right now (Barnes & Noble are you listening). But the folks over Ars Technica & Engadget have an excellent review of the tablet. You should check it out.

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• Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet review (engadget.com)
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Doom 3 is now under GPL 3

Doom 3, one of the greatest and critically acclaimed games of all time is now open sourced. That's right, you heard it right.. Doom 3 is under GPL 3 license. John Carmack has a history of releasing his games under the GPL license & he kept his promise. Doom 3 is built around OpenGL, it was compatible with Windows, Linux & Mac. It was delayed for 18 months because the hardware which was required to run the game wasn't available at that time. So, download the source code, compile it & enjoy Doom 3. BTW, be prepared to see loads of first person shooters with Doom 3 engine in the coming months.

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Fedora 16 released

I may be late to tell you guys this. But one of the most awesome GNU/Linux distributions, Fedora 16 was released this month. It comes with GNOME 3.2 & KDE 4.7. Along with that it comes with awesome printing support & loads of language support. One of the best yet un-noticed feature of Fedora is Delta RPM. When coupled with yum-presto, Delta RPMs reduce the size of the updated packages upto 90% in some cases. This is a big, big boon to people who are on limited bandwidth or on slow network. You might wanna give Fedora 16 a try.

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Kindle Fire, 2nd most desired tablet

Apple iPad is the largest selling tablet of all time. HP TouchPad is the second largest selling tablet due to the recent sale. It has a very, very capable operating system (WebOS). I don't know why HP backed off. But the 2nd most desireable tablet is Amazon Kindle Fire. That cute, 7-inch tablet is getting rave reviews from media. It only lacks a SD card slot as it's internal memory is low (8 GB). Check out some more details about the tablet.

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Chatting from Command Line

Image via Wikipedia

We Linux users really, really love to accomplish things from the terminal. Although, Terminal is not required in today's era, but still, Terminal rules. Off lately, I was looking for something to chat via the command line. I got success in the IRC department via Weechat. It is a fabulous application that has loads of features. But what about Instant Messaging? MakeUseOf has an excellent article related to command line chat. Check it out..

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AMD Bulldozer's failure

I have been a huge AMD fan since the days of AMD Athlon 64

Image via CrunchBase

. Back in those days it demolished Intel's processors. But since the acquisition of ATI, the company has been steadily going downhill. The last breath of fresh air as AMD Phenom II series, which gave some competition to Intel. But since the introduction of Intel's Sandy Bridge series, AMD has failed to catch on. And now, after the introduction of Sandy Bridge-E, AMD is completely out of the game.

Granted, that AMD has better price-to-performance ration, but seriously, that isn't going to help them. They have a brilliant graphics chipset but their processor performance is hampering them. AMD is good when it comes to HTPC & budget rigs but fails to deliver in the hardcore & enthusiast section. I wish that under the new CEO, they take some important steps in delivering performance chips.

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