Swiss semiconductor vendor Micronas has announced a Linux-based reference platform for flat-panel, H.264 compatible HDTVs.
Or as one publication puts it, Jim Zemlin: The New Center (sic) of Linux Gravity. Probably that's the impression the writer got.
There's one problem with this -- you'll notice that I am using Ubuntu, yet it still speaks about Macs.
The sleek U9 is wider but thinner than earlier Motorola clamshells. Unobtrusive closed, it opens big to position the mike for best sound-quality. It strongly resembles Motorola's earlier non-Linux-based PEBL phone, but slimmed down, and with an OLED external display.
Thursday, my daughter’s Dell Inspiron laptop was working fine. She finished as usual, just closing the lid, which puts the laptop in suspend/hibernate mode.
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After the updates, I installed a few things automatically, like fonts, Win32 codecs, dvdcss, etc. Then I asked her what her immediate needs were. A PDF-generating publishing tool for the newsletter. Scribus fit that bill. A music player: Amarok. “Can this play DVDs?” Kaffeine. MSN/AIM/IRC. I gave her both Kopete and Pidgin. I also installed OpenOffice, since I knew she had had MSOffice on the old system. Firefox3 for a familiar browser. Then I handed it to her.
She opened Scribus first. “Hey, I can use this!” She closed that, and stuck in a DVD movie. A moment later, a dialog popped up asking her what she wanted to do with it. She clicked “Play with Kaffeine”, and sure enough, there was her movie. This really started her laughing.
