Embedded/Mobile

• Chinese phone designs run Linux
  
  

  Shenzhen, China-based smartphone design company Tranzda Technologies is marketing five phone designs that use its NewPlus Linux phone application stack. All five Tranzda designs include GPS, along with optional features that include WiFi, cameras, and biometric fingerprint authentication.

  
  
  
• ARM SoC clocks to 2GHz, runs Linux
• Emulator moves up to PowerQUICC II Pro
• Configurable processors gain Linux support

Laptops

• Acer aspires to lead low-cost laptop race
  
  

  At $379, the Aspire One is cheaper than the runaway hit Eee PC from Asus, whose 9-inch version begins at $549 for the Linux version, and the $499 Linux-based Hewlett-Packard Mini-Note. (CNET has not yet reviewed the Aspire One, but stay tuned.)

  
  
  
• ASUS Eee Box Preview & Intel's Atom Benchmarked
  
  

  The same configuration with Windows XP will run you $299, or for the same amount of money you can purchase a 160GB/2GB system also with Linux. Microsoft won't allow PCs to be sold with > 80GB HDDs preloaded with Windows XP and thus the top end configuration is only available with Linux.

  
  
  
• Asus Eee PC 1000 vs Atom-based 901 vs original 701... fight!
• A Profusion of Minis
  
  

  Maybe it's all a plot to keep Windows XP alive. To prevent a mass defection of these products to Linux, Microsoft has said it will continue to make XP available after its June 30 retail cutoff date, to these low-cost, low-power systems that simply don;t have the horsepower to run the newer operating system well.

  
  
  

International

• Munich released template management software as Open Source
• How the Free Software Movement Is Winning the War in Brazil
  
  

  There are now only two years left in the administration of President Lula. Given the vast institutional shifts to free software that have occurred, it is hard to imagine an economical way to rollback these projects - not only the changes within state-owned IT firms but the many other projects that Brazil has launched with free software: the massive Digital Inclusion project, the educational Linux projects as well as the general use of open source wikis, project management software, groupware, and so on.

  
  
  
• Linux in Amsterdam

GNU/Linux Desktop

• ProcessMaker uses open source inside and out
  
  

  ProcessMaker, the company, uses open source software "for just about everything we do," Reale says. Most of the workstations run Ubuntu and OpenOffice.org, along with Knowledgetree, MediaWiki, Drupal, phpBB, Zimbra, and SugarCRM. "We tend to us open source as much as possible ... to streamline our operations."

  
  
  
• Cedega 6.1 Beta Released
• Foresight Linux Review
• Ubuntu 7.10 to PCLinuxOS 2008

Open Source Software

• Barracuda Tries to Gobble-Up SourceFire
• Openbravo Enhances Point of Sale Software with Launch of Openbravo POS 2.10
• Facebook Open Sources Parts of Its App Development Platform
• Internode switches on SourceForge mirror
• Open Source Software Shows Its Muscle

Open-Source (Not Software)

• Open-Source Baby
• Open Source animated Movie Big Buck Bunny Free to watch
• Sun's Network.com Renders Computer-Animated Movie ''Big Buck Bunny''
• Sifry Rides Again

Fun with Windows

• Windows XP SP3 includes vulnerable Flash Player