On its website, Emblaze Mobile offers only a spinning 3D Flash image of the Edelweiss, along with a "coming soon" teaser. However, a number of sites have reported that the phone will go on sale in Russia by November. The rumor may have originated on the Russian mobile news site, Mobile Review, which has apparently taken down its initial story about the phone.
It was only a short matter of time after making that announcement before KDE 4.1 was released. And with that release have come new releases of distributions that use it. An excellent example of a KDE 4.1 DE/distribution release is, in my opinion, Mandriva 2009. The more I work with the latest version of Mandriva and KDE 4.1.2 the more comfortable I am with the entire distribution. I honestly haven't felt this good about a Linux distribution using KDE since openSUSE 10.2 and KDE 3.
PC users have never had so many choices ever before. All you are stuck with is Microsoft's Windows XP, which is almost a decade old. Well, not a decade, but almost. And latest Vista -- it's just not working. So what should you do?
As part of our development schedule, we are releasing a snapshot of Rawhide in Live form. We are releasing these via bittorrent only as it is a much lighter weight method to get bits out the door than to go through our mirroring system. If you cannot use bittorrent we apologize for the inconvenience.
The Linux Foundation is holding its first End User Summit beginning Monday in New York, in an effort to bring Linux kernel developers in closer contact with users at Wall Street institutions and other major companies.
Reader Christian Nielsen wrote from Sweden to tell us he and his girlfriend have named their baby Linux, after the operating system, and attached this darling photo.
If you're a Linux user you have no doubt heard of GNOME and KDE. These popular desktop environments are really the pinnacle of a deep iceberg of technology with the X-Windows graphical interface underpinning it all. Here are a couple of ways to tame X, kicking off a journey of unlimited ability to change the Linux look-and-feel.
In the second keynote of the Linux-Kongress in Hamburg, Germany, cofounder of LWN.net and kernel developer Jonathan Corbet presented details on yesterday's released Kernel 2.6.27, but also described some of the work Linux Torvalds and his group of hackers have been up to.
The bottom line is that open source software does a lot of things really well -- and it is, in many ways, equivalent or superior to its proprietary counterparts. There are areas, however, that go beyond general desktop computing where it just isn't there -- yet. We need to break ourselves -- and others -- from the notion that it has to be all or nothing. Keep using that crucial proprietary application, if it is needed to do your job -- but is that closed browser necessary? How about that office suite?
The Knight Foundation every year gives away up to $5 million for grants in digital, open-source innovation.
DFEY stands for "Digital Freedom in Education and Youth" - what that actually means in practise I'll get to in a second.
