It’s enough to make you want to scream, having connectivity issues with your favorite Linux distro. And frankly why most people are best off with a Mac Mini, as it sometimes means getting your hands dirty.
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Why Microsoft hates Google’s Android
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Richard Monson-Haefel, an analyst at the Burton group, just posted a sarcastic and inaccurate analysis of Android on the company’s blog. In his article, called “Why Microsoft Loves Google’s Android“, Monson-Haefel claims that Microsoft should be “secretly celebrating” Google’s introduction of Android.
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Open Document Format Can Evolve Without Foundation Input
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Foundation President Gary Edwards lauds its work regarding the Massachusetts market requirements; others disagree.
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GNU Project: Initial Announcement
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"This is the original announcement of the GNU Project, written by Richard Stallman in 1983..."
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OLPC is an Education Project and Should Take Opportunity to Learn
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"Again, a quoted problem is teacher training concerns. Peru did an intensive program in the pilot programme where teachers were given one-on-three training by the deployment team. Uruguay AFAIK just handed the laptops out. …"
http://www.olpcnews.com/implementation/plan/olpc_education_project_learn...
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Debian-eeepc now has atl2 ethernet
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"With Kel Modderman’s help, we now have a working atl2 driver for the Eee PC. This brings the Debian-eeepc project one step closer to providing a pure Debian replacement for the Xandros OS that ships with the unit. Now that Asus has released the GPLed source that was missing before, we now just have to ensure both the atl2 and asus_acpi modules get merged upstream..."
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Who will follow Funambol’s open source SaaS steps?
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Funambol’s move to adopt the new GNU Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) has some interesting implications for the mobile open source software player. It will be even more interesting, though, to see whether other open source SaaS players follow Funambol’s lead. What will be the impacts of closing open source software’s loopholes?
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E-Mail Analysis Snooping in Your In-Box
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An open-source algorithm called Author-Topic is now being investigated for analyzing corporate e-mail to flag employee behavior and attitudes.
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Linux-based computer boasts router, switch
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A Taiwanese embedded-computer vendor has announced a rugged, Linux-based computer equipped with a router and switch. The Korenix JetBox 9300 is based on an ARM9-based Atmel 180MHz RISC processor, and includes a five-port Ethernet router and a lightweight managed switch.
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GNU IceCat 2.0.0.10
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"Hello, I just uploaded the first release of our customized version of the Mozilla Firefox browser after we changed the name to GNU IceCat. It is based on Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.10, the latest version available now. Still it is completely untested, all I checked is that it can be
Read more »Intel Classmate - Are they happy? No.
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"Jabi Lake Secondary School, on the outskirts of Abuja in Nigeria, is the poster child for a project set up by chip-maker Intel aimed at bridging the digital divide."
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W3C Invites Implementations of XForms 1.1 (Candidate Recommendation)
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"The Forms Working Group has published the Candidate Recommendation of XForms 1.1 ..."
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In the black: Why Linux makes financial sense
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Last week I touched on some Microsoft backflipping over Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) when it comes to Linux. It had been claimed that although Linux was a free operating system, Windows had a lower overall cost with all factors considered due to its greater ease of administration.
Read more »Is Being 'Gutsy' All It Takes?
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A number of pundits like to bemoan Linux's supposed lack of an integrated server stack and wail about the difficulty of figuring out what is needed, how toilsome it is to install all the pieces separately, and how arduous it is to configure everything after you have found and installed all the separate pieces. Fortunately they're wrong.
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ABC.COM isn't Linux Friendly
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I went to ABC.COM today to try and watch a TV show online. My mission was quickly aborted when this error message came up...
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