Plumbing World in New Zealand migrated to Linux on about 350 PCs throughout its 30 branches, which proved to be a boon for the cross-platform Yellowfin BI as the Business Objects application didn't run on Linux.
So a new Linux-based media server to be released this month might be the ticket to keep the penguin-jonesing on track. However, there are two warning flags that must be thrown: It's expensive ($2000) and comes from a company, Cirgon, best known for digital frames.
It takes a village? How about a whole city? How about 100 cities? I enjoyed this item from LinuxInsider about residents of Felton, California who pledged to go proprietary software-free for at least a week. If you've ever been to Felton, which has a Santa Cruz-like countercultural flavor, this pledge makes sense. Felton isn't alone, though. As LinuxInsider reports, similar plans are in place for towns in Oregon and New Mexico, and 100 towns in Italy.
Qnap Systems announced a new member of its "TS" family of Linux-based network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The five-bay, hot-swappable TS-509 Pro Turbo NAS is equipped with a 1.6GHz Intel Celeron processor, 1GB RAM, and dual gigabit Ethernet ports.
Back in June, some unnamed sources told The Wall Street Journal that Google's currently closed open mobile platform could be delayed until 2009. But this week, another unnamed source told TmoNews - a T-Mobile obsessed blog - that the American wireless carrier will offer up the first Android phone for pre-sale on 17 September.
Motorola announced that its LiMo-compliant Moto U9 phone is now available unlocked for GSM networks in the U.S. Available in gray, pink, or purple, the music-oriented U9 has a rounded, contemporary flip-phone form factor, highlighted by a seemingly borderless OLED (organic light-emitting diode) external display.
To sum up the Acer Aspire One: this is what notebooks should have always been like. Small, portable, light, fast, and cheap. For just EUR 299, you are getting a proper netbook, with all the functionality of its big brothers and sisters. Maybe not as full-featured as the MSI Wind, and not as hyped as the eeePC, but still the better choice, simply because it's a hell of a lot cheaper.
Since Dell has recently added several new models to the Ubuntu line, I decided to do price comparisons between the Linux and Windows models. I tried to get the systems as close as possible, but in a few cases there are very minor differences.
If you’re a managed service provider or software as a service (SaaS) specialist, here’s an interesting theory: Instead of purchasing dozens — or hundreds — of x86 servers, you’re sometimes better off virtualizing your applications on a mainframe.
Despite an often tenuous relationship with the Linux community regarding the driver quality for its graphics products, the AMD-owned ATI will offer release parity with Windows for its latest Radeon HD 4870 X2 card.
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David Gerard
2008-08-13 20:48:13
Roy Schestowitz
2008-08-13 21:00:46
Jim Allchin: "I must tell you everything in my soul tells me that we should do what I called plan (b) yesterday. We need a simple fast storage system. LH [Longhorn] is a pig and I don't see any solution to this problem. If we are to rise to the challenge of Linux and Apple, we need to start taking the lessons of 'scenario, simple, fast' to heart. Jim"
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061209135113443