The Android is about to take the leap from the cell phone to the netbook, and much like the first Android-powered cell phone, the first iteration is a bit of head-shaker. Instead of a dazzling showcase, it's underpowered and small, and although it has some interesting qualities, cost is going to be a big issue as some reports have said it could be as high as $250.
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Microsoft stuck at top of open source incline
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Longtime readers may remember my 2006 post on the “open source incline.” I wrote there is a relationship between how open a license is and the community support a project generates. Even while it has sprinkled itself in open source waters Microsoft has generally stayed at the top of both this and the development incline I described in 2008.
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Why Ubuntu Should Embrace Wine
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Mark Shuttleworth made some interesting comments recently about the role of the Wine compatibility layer in fostering the migration of Windows users to Ubuntu. Shuttleworth views Wine, and binary compatibility with Windows applications in general, as a distraction from the real goal of making the free-software world "thrive on its own rules,"; not those borrowed from the proprietary ecosystem.
Read more »$250 Netbook Running Android Coming in Three Months
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Netbook will target the 80% of the world without a computer, not affluent westerners
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Installing Debian (ARM) on QEMU
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In most cases, the embedded systems are tailor-made for specific application environment. Only the necessary software components are installed due to limited budget on storage and computing capabilities. Usually a full Linux is not necessary for either consumers or developers.
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Blender 2.49 RC1 released
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The developers have announced the first release candidate for Blender version 2.49. Blender is a free, cross-platform, open source, 3D content creation suite that allows users to model, shade, animate and render 3D objects.
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West Africa to invest in FOSS Study
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FOSSFA and OSIWA, in their Free and Open Source Software for West Africa and Beyond (FOSSWAY) project are set to invest in FOSS research in West Africa.
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Ubuntu 9.04: Wow
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As you all know I have been using Linux for a long, long time. I have installed countless distributions: Some of them have seen long-term use, while some of them have been nothing more than a flash in the pan. Ubuntu is one of those that has come and gone for me.
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A Nice Linux ScreenSaver
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A cool little screensaver I found online. A bit dated, but still very cool.
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Asterisk: Who’s Answering the Call for Training?
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The Asterisk industry seems to be answering a loud, global call for open source IP PBX training. While Digium has started planning for the annual AstriCon conference, solutions providers and training centers are striving to educate the masses about the open source IP PBX. Here are some perspectives.
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Linux Users are Lazy
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Some one told me once that all of the good system administrators are lazy, I believe this but I also think that Linux users are lazy. While I’m not a full time systems administrator, I am a full time Linux user.
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Troubled Times: The X.org As We Know It, Is Over…
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Ahhhh….the old days. Wait, no I have only used Linux since 2004, but thats enough to still know that X.org.conf was still fully functional at that time. With new releases of distributions such as Ubuntu 9.04, we now see X.org.conf as a deprecated.
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What does open source community mean?
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Matt Asay is out with a post calling the whole concept of open source community overhyped. If by that you mean the Tom Sawyer concept of volunteers coming over to whitewash the fence for you, he’s right.
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What Do Carrot Top and Ubuntu Have in Common
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They’re both ugly, orange and annoying. Ubuntu is a Linux distribution, a free alternative operating system, if you will. As a “hobbyist OS”, it was fine. So where does the orange and annoying come in?
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Silent Updates Do Not Equal Security
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A recent report shows that users of Google Chrome are more likely to be up to date with all the updates than users of any other browser. The reason for this is that Google pushes out silent updates and installs them without even telling the user, even when Chrome is not running. The report concludes that this is a very safe and secure way of updating users.
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