As for the Elonex One itself, it comes with a 300MHz LNX Code 8 Mobile processor, and a Debian-based distribution. Add to that 128MB RAM, 1GB Flash and a detachable screen and there is no denying that you get a lot of Linux laptop for not very much money at all.
Asustek Computer, which makes the runaway success Eee PC, will display new, wider-screen models that allow users to do everything from storing video clips in shock-proof flash memory and surfing the Web in coffee shops.
Prices will vary accordingly, so the best I can do here is provide a ballpark unit price: Expect Classmates equipped with a Linux-based OS to cost somewhere around $399 and Windows machines to cost about $469.
A much clamored-for feature (right after native 64-bit, wmode/transparency, and V4L2) is Flash GPU (graphical processing unit) acceleration, sometimes founded in a belief that it's a magic solution for making things fast without any side effects or ill consequences. I just wanted to make it known that the Adobe Flash Player is GPU accelerated...
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you the brand new shiny Plasma theme that will be used for KDE 4.1:
Here you can see the new applet and krunner backgrounds, the new panel, our brand-new carbon fiber clock and some items that once upon a time weren't themed at all, like the pager and the taskbar.
In the new features there is now a new “Static Switcher” that shows thumbnails of all the open windows and moves caret instead of thumbnails. Place plugin received a rewrite that enhances it’s multi-display support. Gtk-window-decorator is now accesessibilit(a11y) sensitive and ezoom plugin now has area zoom, helping people with disabilities to work on computer with ease.
Eye-candy? Full sphere!! I’ll let a picture talk for itself.
In this special episode, we talk to Bradley M. Kuhn of the FSLC & FSC about software freedom, litigation against open source developers, the future and thread of web services that aren’t open, the AGPL and poker.
And since Microsoft's software contains back doors, only a fool would allow any part of SSH on Microsoft's environments, which should be presumed compromised
IBM is not growing and its revenue is just "borrowed" from companies it is buying; a lot of this revenue gets spent paying the interest on considerable debt
