09.18.08
Links 18/09/2008: Toshiba Starts Selling GNU/Linux PCs, Android for Just $199
GNU/Linux Sub-notebooks
- Toshiba releases Linux netbook
- Netbook sports 320GB hard disk
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.
- The $75, 1-watt laptop
Linux Phones/Handhelds
- First Android phone to retail for $199
- Breaking News: Googlephone to Debut on September 23
- Nokia’s Linux OS to support 3G
Events
- Canonical CTO bites back at Linux Plumbers Conference keynote
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”.
- From Ghana to Wall Street: The Linux End User Summit
- Atlanta Linux Fest 2008
GNU/Linux
- Linux-based video analytics software debuts
- Why GNU/Linux needs slick marketing
- $34 MIPS board has own Linux distro
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.
- Unreal Tournament 3 Running On Linux
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.
- Tangent Quattro is a solid Internet radio
- Workbench Linux distro is a workhorse for software developers
- Linux alternatives to Windows SBS part one
- Hyundai Securities Selects Teradata for Next-Generation Enterprise Data Warehouse
- Yuuguu launches Linux & Flash clients
- 3-D virtual reality environment developed at UC San Diego helps scientists innovate
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.
- Why use Ubuntu Linux?
- Myths of Linux – People don’t care about licensing
- AMD Catalyst 8.9 Gets WINE Fix, RandR 1.2 Support
F/OSS
- OpenOffice.org 3.0 Promises New Life for Office Software
- RP to take part in global open source festivities
- Rhythmbox, Gnome music awesomeness
- Free Software Shouldn’t Mean You Can’t Make a Buck
- Bob Dylan using Drupal
- On the road with Funambol 7
Leftovers
- Update: Seinfeld ads end as Microsoft turns to reclaim ‘I’m a PC’ slur from Apple
- SEC cracks down on short selling
- Breaking: Wikileaks Missing
- Congress eyes restrictions on exporting e-waste
- Google Blames Microsoft for Yahoo! Deal Controversy
- Trojan masquerades as iPhone game
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