GNU/Linux Laptops

• Is this the cheapest Linux laptop on the planet?
  
  

  As for the Elonex One itself, it comes with a 300MHz LNX Code 8 Mobile processor, and a Debian-based distribution. Add to that 128MB RAM, 1GB Flash and a detachable screen and there is no denying that you get a lot of Linux laptop for not very much money at all.

  
  
  
• Small PCs big news as economy slows
  
  

  Asustek Computer, which makes the runaway success Eee PC, will display new, wider-screen models that allow users to do everything from storing video clips in shock-proof flash memory and surfing the Web in coffee shops.

  
  
  
• Intel’s new UMPC, the Classmate, takes on the XO
  
  

  Prices will vary accordingly, so the best I can do here is provide a ballpark unit price: Expect Classmates equipped with a Linux-based OS to cost somewhere around $399 and Windows machines to cost about $469.

  
  
  
• Ubiquitous Linux, or, how to become a household commodity

Distros

• Reasons to be Cheerful #3: Ubuntu
• PCLinuxOS 2008.1 GNOME installed
• Going Ubuntu
• UBUNTU Studio Revisited

More GNU/Linux Stuff

• Plat’Home : The Palm Size Linux Server
• [GNU/Linux] Flash Uses The GPU
  
  

  A much clamored-for feature (right after native 64-bit, wmode/transparency, and V4L2) is Flash GPU (graphical processing unit) acceleration, sometimes founded in a belief that it's a magic solution for making things fast without any side effects or ill consequences. I just wanted to make it known that the Adobe Flash Player is GPU accelerated...

  
  
  
• [KDE] 4.1 times more Prettyness
  
  

  Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you the brand new shiny Plasma theme that will be used for KDE 4.1:
  
  Here you can see the new applet and krunner backgrounds, the new panel, our brand-new carbon fiber clock and some items that once upon a time weren't themed at all, like the pager and the taskbar.

  
  
  
• Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.7.6 out in wild
  
  

  In the new features there is now a new “Static Switcher” that shows thumbnails of all the open windows and moves caret instead of thumbnails. Place plugin received a rewrite that enhances it’s multi-display support. Gtk-window-decorator is now accesessibilit(a11y) sensitive and ezoom plugin now has area zoom, helping people with disabilities to work on computer with ease.
  
  Eye-candy? Full sphere!! I’ll let a picture talk for itself.

  
  
  

F/OSS

• Freedom and privacy in the cloud: a call for action
• Ruby on Rails Performance Options Grow
• Obama Campaign Seeks LAMP Developers
• Linux Outlaws 40 - Software Freedom, Lawsuits & Poker
  
  

  In this special episode, we talk to Bradley M. Kuhn of the FSLC & FSC about software freedom, litigation against open source developers, the future and thread of web services that aren’t open, the AGPL and poker.

  
  
  

Microsoft

• Is Microsoft Repeating Vista Mistakes with Windows 7?
• Bill Gates doesn't play monopoly? Laugh? I nearly died
• Microsoft has lost its grip on the ecosystem
• Microsoft France bans wine marketing

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