Kmart has begun touting a seven-inch "Gentouch78" Android 2.1 tablet for $150, as well as a Linux-based seven-inch color e-reader called "TheBook eReader," both from Augen.
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Calm down! Dell is not throwing Ubuntu Linux out!
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People seem to love bad news. This last weekend, the 'bad' news was that Dell has stopped offering Ubuntu Linux pre-installed on laptops and netbooks. There was only one problem with the story: It's not true.
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LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation Collaborate on Mobile Operating Systems
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LiMo Foundation and GNOME Foundation today announced a key partnership with the objective of collaborating closely on open source innovation. Starting immediately, LiMo Foundation will become a member of GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for LiMo Foundation.
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GNOME and LiMo Foundation partner for assault on mobile market
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The GNOME and LiMo Foundations have today announced their intention to collaborate closely with a key partnership. With immediate effect the LiMO Foundation will become a member of the GNOME Foundation’s Advisory Board and the GNOME Foundation will become an Industry Liaison Partner for the LiMo Foundation.
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The GNOME Foundation and the LiMo Foundation have announced a new partnership with the objective of "collaborating closely on open source innovation"
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Increasing number of schools turn to open source
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The number of schools in Austria that are considering to use or are using open source is increasing, according to school IT administrators and open source developers involved in education.
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Video: The Sub-$20 GNU/Linux Laptop?
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A look at the GNU/Linux-powered gadget which can revolutionise affordable computing
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Are open source developers on the ball about delivering alternatives to cutting-edge proprietary products and services, or do they lag the proprietary innovators? That topic came up at this week's OSCON conference in Portland, and there is a case to be made for the idea that open source developers don't deliver key products in key categories fast enough.
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Ubuntu-ready netbook adopts new Atom
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System76 has updated its Linux-based netbook to the Atom N455 processor as well as making it thinner and lighter. The Ubuntu 10.04 version of the 10.1-inch Starling NetBook offers more memory (2GB), a larger standard hard drive (250GB), faster Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n), and is available in a school-focused "EduBook" version.
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GENIVI chooses MeeGo for in-car infotainment systems
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The Linux Foundation has announced that the GENIVI Alliance has selected the MeeGo software platform as the basis of their next reference release for In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) for car companies including BMW and General Motors
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ABI Research on a Bright Future for Linux in Devices
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Where devices are concerned, Linux is all over the place and it's important to ensure that Microsoft does not tax Linux using software patents
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Linux on mobile fast-track
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Linux will dominate mobile by 2015. That's according to a new report from technology analyst ABI Research.
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The Open Source Software That Runs Facebook
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If anyone tells you open source can't run a large business or scale, remind them that Facebook is serving a half billion people with a network built on open source code. Quite a bit of it, as Developer.com notes, much of what runs Facebook is open source languages and software.
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Android fragmentation
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Six releases in 18 months. Is it too much? With six releases in just a year and a half is Android risking extreme fragmentation? Or is this just the way Google does business?
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China and the Year of the GNU/Linux Desktop
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It's an old joke by now that this year will be the year of the GNU/Linux desktop – just like last year, and the year before that. But now there's a new twist...
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