06.06.08
Links 06/06/2008: Loads on GNU/Linux UMPCs (MIDs), New Kernel PC
UMPCs
- Linux success on UMPCs nudges Microsoft’s XP strategy
- The year of the Linux … Mini Laptop!
- Wind River spins MID Linux
Wind River is readying a vertical-market Linux distribution specifically for MIDs (mobile Internet devices). Wind River Linux Platform for Mobile Internet Devices is the company’s second “Platform” product to target Intel’s Atom processor, and its second developed in collaboration with Intel, it says.
- Netbook? MID? Is This PC Category for Real?
- Here Comes the Asus ‘Freee PC’
GNU/Linux
- 2.6.26-rc5, “Another Batch Of Mostly Pretty Small Fixes”
“Another week, another batch of mostly pretty small fixes. Hopefully the regression list is shrinking, and we’ve fixed at least a couple of the oopses on Arjan’s list,” said Linux creator Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.26-rc5 kernel.
- Phoronix Test Suite 1.0.0
- Asus Provides Glimpse of Eee Monitor PC Design, Says More Eee Gear To Come
- Linux desktop growing – Shuttleworth
- gNewSense Review
The system booted from the livecd fine, except that as usual, it dropped me in some horribly high resolution. Ubuntu does that too. Damn mildly powerful graphics cards and monitors!
- Running a GNU/Linux desktop on the web with Ulteo
Ulteo is a brave, innovative, useful and interesting concept. It may be unique in terms of the feature mix but it is possible to put together individual packages to mimic them.
- Will Linux take over Microsoft Windows Soon?
- Not an OS
- A brief history of Linux and the cosmos
One could name Solaris, HPUX, OSX and Windows as alternatives, but their user base is tiny compared to the Linux user community (in HPC-related environments) due to the proprietary nature of those operating systems. Some of them may be a better choice than Linux in very specific areas, but not for the COSMOS style of use, with its wide range of applications and research tasks… From the COSMOS support team point of view, there is no alternative to Linux as the OS of choice for HPC applications.”
- What drives a mass Linux migration?
A politician can sell the decision to migrate to FOSS by invoking the national interest – “why should we let a foreign company repatriate earnings abroad when the money can stay here?” Such a rallying cry would appeal to the constituency in Kerala and indeed to most of India. Many people have still not forgotten the last batch of colonial rulers.
- Google Gadgets open-sourced for Linux
- Screenlets add customized functionality to the desktop
- ABAS Receives Linux Award in China
- It’s Not About the Distro
- The 10 Best Linus Torvalds Quotes
Embedded/Mobile
- Cortex-A8 kit targets medical devices
- VIA Launches Mini-ITX 2.0 Form Factor
- Movial unveils Linux toolkit for fast phone GUIs
Finland’s Movial unveiled a Linux-based toolkit which enables software developers to use web-based technologies to program mobile user interfaces, aiming to cut development times.
F/OSS
- Law.com article spins old confusions into new “danger”
- BG: ‘Government’s increasing use of Open Source inevitable’
The Bulgarian government will turn more and more to Open Source software, predicts Krasimir Panayotov, coordinator of the GNU/Linux User Group in the city of Rousse, the country’s fifth-largest city.
- 10 open source e-learning projects to watch
- 10 organizations of interest to FOSS developers
- Pentaho Releases Business Intelligence Platform Under GPL License
- MPower CEO Randy McCabe: Open Source for Nonprofits
- Steal This Film Creators are Calling for Coders
- Why Google should embrace OpenOffice
Microsoft
- Gates-Ballmer Clash Shaped Microsoft’s Coming Handover
- Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family
- Microsoft’s Ballmer Touts Vista-To-XP Downgrade Program
Security
- Bluetooth, IE to Get Critical Microsoft Patches
- German government approves plod-spyware law
- Swedish Gov’t to Vote on Allowing E-mail, Phone Monitoring
