10.22.08
Gemini version available ♊︎Links 22/10/2008: More GNU/Linux-based Sub-notebooks, Dell’s Fast Boot Coming
GNU/Linux
- Hey, Dad…Can I have Linux back?
- Instant-on Dell Desktop to Debut Next Week
Consumers will get their first look at Dell’s new instant-on system for Optiplex desktops next week, a company executive said Wednesday in Shanghai.
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Clarke previously disclosed some details of the system in August, saying it will run on a Linux OS and a separate, secondary chip, in order to extend battery life.
- 204.5-Million lines of code equals one great Linux distribution
- Linux Creator Linus Torvalds, Others Honored In Silicon Valley
- Linux’s Next Victim
UNIX is a ship very slowly letting in water. The rats aren’t about to abandon it quite yet, but they are certainly checking where the life vests are stored.
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Distributions
- Minisys Linux: Puppy on steroids
- The Goal of Funtoo
- PCLinuxOS Magazine October 2008 Released
PCLinuxOS Magazine, Octobe 2008 (Issue 26) is available to download.
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Debian
- Debian Etch on The Self-Reliant Thin Client
- Elive 1.9.10 ScreenShots
This is our first ScreenShot review of Elive Linux! I just want to say congratulation to the Elive Linux team for making such a sweet desktop OS. I have used Enlightenment in the past but not as much as I have used Gnome. From trying out Enlightenment just a few seconds ago it was amazingly fast and quite east to navigate, with just clicking once on the desktop the Enlightenment menu appears.
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Ubuntu
- ShipIt now accepting free orders for Ubuntu 8.10 discs
- Release your creative side with Ubuntu Studio
- Obama Ubuntu
People from the Obama campaign have said that they use Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to be used nationally.
Does anyone know any more about the use of Ubuntu by the Obama campaign and can provide us with more details?
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Institutes
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Money
- Linux and your worth in the Job Market
- What is a Linux distro worth?
- Fedora 9 valued at $10.8B
- Who Are The Real Friends of Linux and Free Software? Or, Linux Is Still a Dirty Word
So it all comes back to the same old story– don’t trust the suits because their business models are based on exploitation, and even when they profit handsomely from Linux it’s shameful and not mentioned in polite company.
- Why should Microsoft fans want (even help!) Linux to succeed
- In these trying economic times will Linux be the answer.
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Appliances
- EVO Smart Console: Playstation Competition?
- Linux powers thin MID
USI demonstrated a super-thin, Linux-based mobile Internet device (MID) that offers GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, and either HSPA or WiMAX. The Intel Atom-equipped USI MID-160 sports a 5-inch 800×480 touchscreen, but lacks a keyboard, helping it keep a 0.6-inch profile.
- Indamixx sound box plays on Linux base
- Hands on: Toshiba NB100 netbook review
Prices for the NB100 are as follows: the Linux model is £259; the XP version is available with 1GB of RAM for £299. Look out for a complete review of the NB100 soon.
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Eye Candy
- [KDE's] plasma is now feature complete?
Behold, new eyes plasmoid in all its scalable SVG greatness!
- Compositing With Metacity – An Early Look
- [KDE's] plasma is now feature complete?
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Server
- Actual chickens win Plat’Home’s “Will Linux Work?” contest
- IBM aims for Linux customers with ‘baby’ mainframe
IBM is targeting midsize business customers that use Linux with a new “baby” mainframe that costs just a fraction of the amount charged for the high-end mainframe IBM released in February.
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Proprietary
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Red Hat
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Mobile
F/OSS
- GIMP 2.6 changes are mostly internal
- Free software offers cheaper long distance calls
- Open Source Text Publisher Gets More Financing
- Open Source Gets Into Wall St. Back Office
- Zimbra co-founder invests in Dimdim’s open source web meetings
- Talend Says Its Open Source Approach for Integration Tools Has Been Validated
- Bluenog’s Unconventional Open Source Strategy
- Open source – it’s all about choice
- Customers begin to question enterprise software value
- Enea to Deliver Open Source Software Solutions
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Laws
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Administration
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Firefox
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