10.16.08
Links 16/10/2008: Signs of More Free Software in Europe
GNU/Linux
- Migrating to Linux: How and Why
Linux has gained a firm position in the embedded market. This raises the question of whether it is worth developing new products with Linux and replacing an existing operating system with Linux. There is effort and risk in any migration of an operating system, and the technical difficulties and analysis and planning for migration to embedded Linux require consideration and time.
- Gartner: Mini laptops keep PC market from sinking
Early in June, Acer dove into the mini-laptop market with the Aspire One netbook, which is designed to use Intel’s Atom N270 chip. Acer’s netbook runs either the Linpus Linux Lite operating system or Windows XP Home.
- Hazy Computing
- E17 adapted to Linux devices, demo’d on Treo650
Carsten “Rasterman” Haitzler has adapted his Enlightenment window manager to low-powered, small-screen devices like mobile phones. The Linux desktop graphics pioneer has released a pared-down widget set, along with ports and video demonstrations of E17 on OpenMoko’s NeoFreerunner phone and Palm’s Treo650 (booted into Linux, naturally).
- Five Ways to Keep Up With Linux
- SoHo NAS devices run EMC Linux
- Liquid Computing drops IQ for Ethernet
The good news is, the LiquidIQ 2.0 machines run more than a modified version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, as the original machines that shipped in November 2006 did.
F/OSS
- Eying Eisenstern And Eye Candy
- Ex-Google, Yahoo employees behind Hadoop startup
- Skype Meets Asterisk
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Development
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Europe
- ES: Open Source eGovernment study
Spain has launched a National Open Source Software Observatory. Its first report, just out, is on Open Source use in public administrations.
- IT: University starts Open Source master course
- Open Source Government: Sardinia Regional Law recommends Free Software
- European Open Source: Orvieto looks at creating an open source hub
- ES: Open Source eGovernment study
Leftovers
- It’s a solvency problem, not a liquidity problem
- Flash Cookies: The Silent Privacy Killer
- FCC chairman backs use of ‘white space’ spectrum
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Colin Angle, Co-founder and CEO, iRobot 01 (2005)
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