Kahilo are hoping to drum up enough interest in their Linux-based KU860 convertible UMPC for someone to buy a few dozen crates and slap a company logo on them; the OEM is offering this 7-inch WXGA touchscreen device for bulk orders. Running a 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor, 1GB of RAM and up to a 60GB hard-drive, it also includes GPS for the navigationally-challenged.
While Windows is an option on most models, Linux is the operating system of choice because of its low cost and modest hardware requirements.
Luk Claes reported on the progress regarding the release of the new stable release Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny. While there are still a lot of release critical bugs to be fixed, Lenny is in good enough shape to call for upgrade tests and work on the release notes.
Developers are choosing commercial, rather than non-commercial, distributions of Linux when it comes to building high-performance or mission-critical systems, according to new research.
Embedded Linux is rapidly encroaching upon application spaces once considered the exclusive domain of embedded kernels such as VxWorks, pSOS and in-house platforms. Industry analysts show embedded Linux and open source garnering up to one-third of 32 and 64-bit designs, more than twice the share of any other embedded OS.
Viet Nam’s open-source developers have joined Moblin.org, an international open-source community by adding a Vietnamese interface on the website as well as launching a competition among Vietnamese coders.
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landofbind
2008-09-17 03:51:44
Nothing has changed. You read nothing that you post here. Links that have nothing to do even with software.
How can you think that you have the right to criticize anyone about their integrity, while you show so little of that yourself?
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