Consumers will get their first look at Dell's new instant-on system for Optiplex desktops next week, a company executive said Wednesday in Shanghai.
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Clarke previously disclosed some details of the system in August, saying it will run on a Linux OS and a separate, secondary chip, in order to extend battery life.
UNIX is a ship very slowly letting in water. The rats aren't about to abandon it quite yet, but they are certainly checking where the life vests are stored.
PCLinuxOS Magazine, Octobe 2008 (Issue 26) is available to download.
This is our first ScreenShot review of Elive Linux! I just want to say congratulation to the Elive Linux team for making such a sweet desktop OS. I have used Enlightenment in the past but not as much as I have used Gnome. From trying out Enlightenment just a few seconds ago it was amazingly fast and quite east to navigate, with just clicking once on the desktop the Enlightenment menu appears.
People from the Obama campaign have said that they use Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to be used nationally.
Does anyone know any more about the use of Ubuntu by the Obama campaign and can provide us with more details?
So it all comes back to the same old story-- don't trust the suits because their business models are based on exploitation, and even when they profit handsomely from Linux it's shameful and not mentioned in polite company.
USI demonstrated a super-thin, Linux-based mobile Internet device (MID) that offers GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, and either HSPA or WiMAX. The Intel Atom-equipped USI MID-160 sports a 5-inch 800x480 touchscreen, but lacks a keyboard, helping it keep a 0.6-inch profile.
Prices for the NB100 are as follows: the Linux model is €£259; the XP version is available with 1GB of RAM for €£299. Look out for a complete review of the NB100 soon.
Behold, new eyes plasmoid in all its scalable SVG greatness!
IBM is targeting midsize business customers that use Linux with a new "baby" mainframe that costs just a fraction of the amount charged for the high-end mainframe IBM released in February.
