Czech vendor Eltrinex has announced a netbook computer that runs Linux or Windows XP Home Edition, and sports a 320GB hard drive. The "MobilePC" includes a Via C7-M ULV processor, 10.2-inch display, 1GB of RAM, 802.11a/b/g WiFi, and a bundled external DVD writer, the company says.
Matt Zimmerman, CTO of Canonical, is unhappy with Greg Kroah-Hartman, one of the Linux kernel maintainers, because of Kroah-Hartman's keynote at the Linux Plumbers Conference. The keynote, described elsewhere as a reworking a June presentation, makes a number of claims about Canonical's activity in the community, presenting various tables which showed Canonical not making many upstream patches and concluding "Canonical doesn't give back to the community".
UK-based Omnima Ltd. is shipping a low-cost MIPS32 controller board with optional case. Booting the OpenWRT-based "Midge" distro from 2MB of flash, or a special "Squidge" Linux distro from a USB key, the eponymous "Omnima" controller has 16MB of RAM and a built-in four-port Ethernet switch.
Next to the screenshots he says "Seriously, there's no conspiracy...so stop sending me email suggesting that Microsoft is paying to block this." These screenshots were made available on his blog last night. With Ryan finally talking about Unreal Tournament 3 now, it looks like the long-awaited Linux (and Mac OS X) client release may be imminent.
Each pair of projectors is powered by a high-end, quad-core PC running on Linux, with dual graphics processing units and dual network cards to achieve gigabit Ethernet or 10GigE networking.
