Stuphi

The other day, Google released its open source operating system. This has been expected for some time, and I was keen to have a look.

Well following some instructions, I managed to fail to compile my own image of the new operating system. Having quickly bored of trying, my next option was to download a pre-compiled version. This was easy to find, and ended up with having a VirtualBox appliance on my hard drive.

Now this is very early software, so it would be unfair to be critical. However, it does look promising. For someone who only used a computer to email and surf the web, it would be great.

It has been suggested that it will another year before this becomes a full release. In the mean time, I intend to keep an eye on it.

So I have started playing with Mapnik and Openstreetmap data. A number of times in the past when I have attemped this, it has fallen over. Finally I have got it up and running. Now all I need is to find a suitable application for this.

In the meantime, I can play around creating animations such as this.

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