Brad Linder’s liliputing.com reported last week that netbook sales were slowing, partly due to the rising tide of tablets and also because the lines are blurring between netbooks and more powerful but equally small thin and light laptops.
Read more »Netbooks are doing just fine, thanks largely to Linux.
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Mandriva Linux is a Fantastic Scientific Platform
Stéphane Teletchea is working in a French research laboratory. He is also contributing to Mandriva Linux as a tester and packager for some years now. What follows is his testimony in Mandriva Linux use for his daily scientific work.
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Tracking Trends In Linux Software / Hardware
A month ago we began reporting some Linux hardware statistics from those Phoronix Test Suite users that utilize Phoronix Global for uploading their test results publicly so that they can share their benchmark scores with others and make it very easy for their friends or colleagues to compare their performance numbers via the Internet.
Read more »Telstra’s Linux-based T-Box to launch mid-June
Telstra today revealed it would launch its Linux-based T-Box integrated media centre set-top box from mid-June at a stand-alone price point of $299, with a sledload of free and pay-per-view content available and an associated revamp of its broadband plans in the works.
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iPed versus iPad: looking for Android tablets
As well as churning out millions of electronics devices for sale under upscale brand names like Apple's, China's manufacturers have a tendency to produce lookalikes at low prices, mainly for the Asian markets. The iPed is one of the first.
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Nearly every supercomputer runs Linux
Announced earlier today, the 35th list of the top 500 supercomputers contains few surprises, just that Linux has almost total domination of the list.
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Microsoft is Right. The Slate is Nice. (With Linux)
Microsoft and x86 stakeholders are falling behind mobile device kings like ARM and wonderful platforms like Linux
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ARM9-based $100 Android tablets to light up Computex
Next week at Computex, Via Technologies' WonderMedia Technologies subsidiary will demonstrate low-cost Android-based tablets based on the ARM9-based, 600MHz WonderMedia Prizm processor and related "SmartTouch" reference designs. The tablets will be manufactured by a variety of Chinese manufacturers, and sold for as low as $100 in the U.S. later this year, says Bloomberg.
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Shogo Linux Tablet, a Potential iPad Killer
Shogo Linux Tablet, a Potential iPad Killer: There is a new tablet PC in town that runs Linux, and its name is Shogo. Made by realease, a Hong Kong-based platform provider, this device features a 10-inch capacitive touchscreen and will be available in two models...
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Measuring the popularity of distros – Part 3 Torrents
Continuing on with the theme of measuring the popularity of Linux distros, today we’ll go for another method. Linux Tracker is a website that provides a bit torrent tracker for various Linux distros and related projects.
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Acer unveils Android smartphone and teases with a tablet
Acer announced an Android 2.1 smartphone called the Stream, offering a 1GHz Snapdragon, a 3.7-inch AMOLED WVGA display, and a five-megapixel camera.
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New OLPC tablet will run Linux, not Windows
One Laptop Per Child won't use Microsoft's Windows OS on its upcoming XO-3 tablet. Instead the XO-3 will run a Linux OS, according to Ed McNierney, OLPC's CTO.
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Exploring Lilliput: Is the Cloud Replacing Tiny Linuxes?
Emery Fletcher has been exploring small-footprint Linux distributions like Damn Small Linux, SliTaz, and Puppy. Since even small mobile devices have lots of RAM and storage these days, and cloud apps are everywhere, are these small Linuxes still worthwhile?
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Open Source Makes a Difference
New Pentaho sponsored report from Mark Madsen conducts price comparison of commercial open source and top five proprietary vendors
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Best non-HTC Android phones
HTC dominates the Android phone market but other mobile makers are picking up the Android pace. The majority of Android-based mobile phones released to date have been made by HTC but there are also a number of other Android phones worth considering. We look at some of the alternatives to HTC if you're determined to own an Android phone.
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