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Android – Under the hood

Android is the Google's open source Operating System designed for mobile devices. Apart from Google, most of the top players of mobile industries are behind Google developing this linux kernel based OS. What the project says about itself? Android is the first free, open source, and fully customizable mobile platform. Android offers a full stack: an operating system, middleware, and key mobile applications. It also contains a rich set of APIs that allows third-party developers to develop grea...

Update Ubuntu with latest kernel

Ubuntu's release cycle is 6 months. Though this seems to be aggressive cycle, it is not enough for someone who depends on bleeding edge kernel which may support some new hardware or damn smart feature. In this scenario you need to wait till next release of ubuntu, if you are not comfortable in downloading the vanilla kernel from http://www.kernel.org. But things have started changing now. Ubuntu has announced recently that vanilla kernels will be available as .deb packages in ubuntu Personal ...

Gear head Web cam (093a:2620) in Linux

Recently I bought a Gear head Web cam (cheaper) from Frys Electronics. The vendor id and product id of this gadget is 093a:2620.  It does not come with driver for linux. Once I connected to my laptop, I came to know that it is not supported by the current kernel 2.6.27 which I am using, shipped with Ubuntu 8.10. Googling the issue on internet found that there are other compatible web cams are supported by the gspca driver pac7311. And also I found that there is commit in v4l-dbv project w...