HiVision CO., LTD makes one of the worlds cheapest Linux laptops at $98 using a new cheaper chipset, WiFi, 1GB flash storage, it runs Linux, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out. Voice-chat, Skype, multi-tabbed Firefox browser support, Abiword for word processing.
Two additional models are complete but give the buyer a choice of operating system. A $199 model is defined as the mid-range model; though it comes with just 512MB of memory, it ships with Ubuntu Linux and so doesn't carry the same demands as a Windows system. An 80GB hard drive will also be standard on the PC.
Unusually for this type of machine, it runs Vista Home Basic out of the box alongside a Linux dual interface.
The Aspire One comes preinstalled with Linpus Linux, which in turn is based on Fedora Core 8. I’m not really a fan of rpm distributions, but Acer have tuned this installation to the point where it will resume from suspend in around 10 seconds, and cold boot to the desktop in less than 20 seconds, so I’m reluctant to change.
Freedom toaster,’ a free software CD/DVD vending machine, will be launched at Technopark in the city on Monday.
The Toaster is designed and developed by Zyxware Technologies and promoted jointly by Zyxware Technologies and GNU/Linux Users Group Trivandrum.
We asked the devoted Linux users, the dual-Windows-and-Linux-booters, and the newer converts to the open-source operating system last week why they made the switch to Linux, and received over 330 responses as of this posting.
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It was recently announced that the next Debian stable release, the one after Lenny, will be called Squeeze.
Now I’m looking forward to the first email from my Granny. Yes, I’m incredibly proud of her.
And I’m happy about all the effort that was taken to make KDE applications easy to use and easy to understand. Even for Grannies.
Comments
Hun
2008-09-03 10:23:00
Maybe we will see an linux based os soon for desktops like andriod is for mobile directly from google.
MS is pissed. They have lost the web war. Google can live happily without depending on MS/IE anymore.
aeshna23
2008-09-03 13:39:31
My current worry is how is Google with its new Chrome browser trying to replace Microsoft? I suppose even if Google is wildly successful beyond what seems likely now that FLOSS will be in better shape than now? But what are the nightmare scenarios?
Jose_X
2008-09-03 15:43:49