About ANDROID:
Android is an Operating System for mobiles that runs on Linux Kernel. It was developed by Android Inc. but was later purchased buy GOOGLE.
FEATURES:
Some of the features of ANDROID OS are as following:
WEB BROWSER - LibWebCore - a modern web browser engine which powers both the Android browser and an embeddable web view.
Storage: - SQLite - a powerful and lightweight relational database engine available to all applications.
Media support: - Android supports : MPEG-4 SP, AMR, AMR-WB (in 3GP container), AAC, HE-AAC (in MP4 or 3GP container), MP3, MIDI, OGG Vorbis, WAV, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP
Additional Hardware Support: Android can use video/still cameras, touchscreens, GPS, accelerometers, magnetometers, accelerated 2D bit blits (with hardware orientation, scaling, pixel format conversion) and accelerated 3D graphics.
Multi-touch: Android has native support for multi-touch which is available in newer handsets such as the HTC Hero. The feature was initially disabled at the kernel level (possibly to avoid infringing Apple patents on touch-screen technology
Connectivity: Android supports connectivity technologies including GSM/EDGE, CDMA, EV-DO, UMTS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.
USES and ADVANTAGES:
As it's a mobile Operating System its extensively used in cell phones, ipods etc.
The application used by this OS are mostly built by GOOGLE Inc. having better efficiency and reliability.
A new phone (NEXUS ONE) has been officially announced by GOOGLE which has everything you can do with computer. Though its not available in PAKISTAN yet.
About Future Extension of ANDROID:
Google is still working on it. And upcoming with better applications of it. Google is making things easier in the field of computer science as well as in the field of Telecommunication as it can be seen by the launch of new phone NEXUS ONE having ANDROID Operating System.
DEBIAN
About Debian:
Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system, developed by more than a thousand volunteers from all over the world who collaborate via the Internet. Debian's dedication to Free Software, its non-profit nature, and its open development model make it unique among GNU/Linux distributions.
Debian GNU/Linux runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of twelve architectures are supported: Sun SPARC (sparc), HP Alpha (alpha), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Intel IA-32 (i386), IA-64 (ia64), HP PA-RISC (hppa), MIPS (mips, mipsel), ARM (arm, armel), IBM S/390 (s390), and AMD64 and Intel EM64T (amd64).
FEATURES OF DEBIAN:
SOME ADVANTAGES:
A Debian GNU system is upgraded to a new minor subrelease or to a new major release by using one out of many methods. Single desktop machines can use the CD-ROM-method or the network-method while the machine runs without the need to reboot it.
Debian packages integrate very well into the entire system. Several tools and gadgets are used to help connecting packages to each other, presenting the user a well maintained and round system.
For all packages of the distribution the whole source is available. The entire distribution is free according to the DFSG which also means that everybody can improve packages and still distribute them.
Debian does not have an office in any country providing first- and second-level support. This is an advantage since pretty much any problem is likely to be answered within a few hours by other expert Debian users or Debian developers on one of the mailing lists.
OPENSUSE
About Opensuse:
openSUSE, is a general purpose operating system built on top of the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported openSUSE Project and sponsored by Novell. After acquiring SUSE Linux in January 2004, Novell decided to release the SUSE Linux Professional product as a 100% open source project, involving the community in the development process.
FEATURES:
openSUSE 11.1 comes with GNOME 2.24, which was released last month. That includes a handful of nice improvements, such as an improved support for tabbed file browsing. OpenSUSE's GNOME environment ships with a great assortment of default applications. One particularly pleasing addition to beta 3, for instance, is Tasque-a to-do list utility that can integrate with the likes of Milk web service.
The OpenOffice.org (OOo) project ranks high among the most popular open source software applications. The cross-platform productivity suite has been developed to its newer version of 3.0 and all set to release with openSUSE in the next month.
Mono 2.0 is a portable and open source implementation of the .NET framework. Mono 2.0.1 works on the bugs and fixes them accordingly. Some of the major features include
Finger Print Readers are more sensitive and accurate in openSUSE 11.1. Only one fingerprint per user can be registered. The user's fingerprint data is stored to /etc/pam_thinkfinger/login.bir. We will have to see how it works actually.
With the likes of Firefox 3.0.3 and Banshee 1.3.3 (don't know yet if it is the exact version) which has iPod upgradation in-built, the software package will be nothing less than attractive for normal users.
ADVANTAGES:
WINDOWS 7
About WINDOWS 7:
Windows 7 is an Operating System on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, notebooks, tablet PCs, and media center PCs. Windows 7 was intended to be a more focused, incremental upgrade to the Windows line, with the goal of being fully compatible with applications and hardware with which Windows Vista is already compatible
Misconception: (That its more and more a VISTA):
Windows 7 is not quite a "Vista service pack." It does share a lot of the core tech, and was clearly designed to fix nearly every bad thing anyone said about Vista. Which ironically puts the demon that it was trying to exorcise at its heart? What that means is that Windows 7 is what Vista should have been in the public eye-a solid OS with plenty of modern eye candy that mostly succeeds in taking Windows usability into the 21st century-but it doesn't daringly innovate or push boundaries or smash down walls or whatever verb meets solid object metaphor you want to use, because it had a specific set of obligations to meet, courtesy of its forebear.
GOOGLE CHROME OS (upcoming)
Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications. Announced on July 7, 2009, Chrome OS is set to have a publicly available stable release during the second half of 2010. The operating system is based on Linux and will run only on specifically designed hardware
ADVANTAGES AND EXPECTED FEATURES OF GOOGLE CHROME OS:
A Chrome OS device will not store any applications on the device itself. Nada, none, zippo, says Pichai. Likewise, it will include only the hardware, right down to the component level, that Google has approved in its hardware reference specification. The only applications it will use are those that can be run from the cloud in a browser, the Chrome browser, to be specific
The portion of the operating system needed to operate the device will reside in a read-only section of memory. The rest of the operating system is integrated with the Chrome browser and, like the browser, security updates require nothing more than a reboot. Chrome OS can run multiple Web applications in multiple tabs and each one is locked down from all others, so a vulnerability in one Web app can't lead to exposure in another. User data stored on the device, which is minimal, is encrypted.
Google promises that it will be writing native code for both popular netbook CPUs.
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