Links 03/08/2008: GNU/Linux in Schools, Yahoo! Likely Plagued by Insiders
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-08-03 21:35:23 UTC
- Modified: 2008-08-04 09:10:29 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Ace in the hole
The Aspire One sells for P18,800 for the Linux version, making it the most attractively-priced netbook in the market today. For that price, you get an Intel Atom N270 processor, an 8.9-inch LCD screen, 1 gigabyte (GB) of memory, an 8GB flash drive for storage, built in Wi-Fi and Ethernet and a built-in Web cam.
The Aspire One comes with a good selection of free software, starting with the operating system, Linpus Lite, a version of Linux based on Fedora. Remarkably, the Aspire One boots up and is ready to use in less than 30 seconds.
- Teaching tech to tots: The use of Linux and open source in pre-schools
If you are a parent or educator, do look into what open source software has to offer you, and do so without fear that your child will have difficulties transitioning from Microsoft Windows to a Linux environment.
- Plat’Home OpenBlockS: Made in Japan
So what is this thing good for? Well, just about anything. If you want to build a specialized solid state mission critical appliance that runs a custom PHP/MySQL application, or want to develop VPN gateways and Asterisk VOIP routers, or just like to hack around with a low-power Linux machine under your desk at work, this is the geek’s equivalent of a Linux Heathkit. Plat’Home has also recently started a contest where you can win a Microserver if you can come up with some great application that beats the living hell out of it.
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F/OSS
- Free Software leader slams NZ copyright
“DRM is nearly always the result of a conspiracy of companies to restrict the technology available to the public. Such conspiracy should be a crime, and the executives responsible for it should be sentenced to prison.”
- Is Free Software dependent on the Internet?
Is Free Software dependent on the Internet? I have fantasized a (hopefully) comical situation that describes where I believe Free Software would be today if the Internet had never been invented.
- Free software is better for web pages
Despite the considerable advances that the free software has made in the last years in its €«market share€» in different fields in informatics, only in a few of this fields free software has the supremacy. One of these is the field of web servers.
- Microsoft's annual report: A study in open-source awareness...and ignorance
In reading through Microsoft's annual report, I am struck by how far the company has come in appreciating the threat that open source brings to Redmond.
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