World’s First Fully Open Source Laptop Now Available

Project Novena is alive and running, promising to bring you the world’s “almost” fully open source laptop. And it doesn’t just have open source software, but open source hardware as well. Hardware with open designs for anyone to manufacture and implement as per the requirements.

This is increasingly becoming popular in tech companies today, where all of them are concerned about ensuring data security, by keeping their digital data and communication secure from NSA snooping

 

Project Novena’s Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross, two Singapore-based engineers, who care enough about open source products so as to go ahead and build something like Project Novena — not just laptops, as we mentioned in the headline above, but other form factors

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of computing devices.

Novena is having “a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It’s designed for users who care about open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features that facilitate rapid prototyping”, as confirmed on the project’s page on Crowdsupply.

The Project Novena laptop looks like a 13-inch hobbyist device with a full-HD 1920×1080 display, 240 GB SSD, and 3000 mAh battery. It weighs just 1.36 kgs, according to the Project Novena laptop’s claimed specs.

Right now, it is priced at US $1,995, hence its not really available financially to the local consumers, but this will definitely wow people from the tech industries who value open source and want to have complete control over every little aspect of their laptop.

Google to shut down Orkut in September

 

Google will close down its social-networking service, Orkut, which was started ten years ago.

Orkut is mainly used in Brazil and India, it will be shutdown on Sept. 30. Google said that they will focus on its other social networking initiatives.

The company refused to tell the number of users Orkut has.

Google in a post on the Orkut blog on Monday said,”Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut’s growth, we’ve decided to bid Orkut farewell.”

Orkut and Facebook was launched in 2004 , now the Facebook is  world’s No.1 social networking site with 1.28 billion users.

The social network’s shutdown proposal is in question. The head of Google’s social networking services Vic Gundotra left the company in April.

Vic Gundotra managed the launch of Google+ in 2011 and he said in October that 300 million users visit the Google+ web page every month.

Google has always tried to position Google+ as a social network site competing with Facebook. For example, Last year Google started requiring users of its YouTube site to sign in with their Google+ identity before posting comments.

The company told it will keep an archive of all Orkut “communities” which will be available from Sept. 30.

Those you do not want their posts or name to be included in the community archive can remove Orkut permanently from their Google account.