$100 for a laptop for a child in the poorest countries is still too much for Nicholas Negroponte. The founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, and founder and current chairman of the One Laptop per Child project (OLPC) wants to give portable computers to all the children in developing countries.
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The unholy quad: Miguel, Mono, Moonlight and Microsoft
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Does GNOME co-founder Miguel de Icaza's backflip over the Novell-Microsoft deal a few days ago mean that he has finally been convinced that he is on a one-way path to nowhere?
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We don't discriminate baby
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The awn-core team released Awn & Awn-Extras 0.2.6 couple of weeks ago! These releases bring with them more stability, a lots of bugfixes, and some interesting new features which include Vala bindings, an updated UI for Awn Manager, new applets, more documentation and support for non-gnome desktop environments.
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First look: Firefox 3 beta 4 brings new Vista hotness
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Mozilla announced today the official release of Firefox 3 beta 4, which includes over 900 additional improvements related to the previous beta release. At this stage in development, most of the work on Firefox is heavily focused on polishing the user interface, refining performance, and reducing the memory overhead. These efforts clearly show in beta 4, which is highly robust and impressively responsive.
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Why I will not by a Linksys product ever again.
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I'm going to take a pause from my usual blog topics and discuss something very dear to everyone's heart, wifi.
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Wal-Mart Giving Up on Linux Too Soon
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After around 5 months of stocking the gPC in stores, Wal-Mart has decided to stop stocking Linux-based computers in their stores, although they will continue to sell them on their website, according to the AP.
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GNOME 2.22: A Truly Amazing Desktop!
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very six months, the GNOME team prepares a new and revolutionary release of the ever popular GNOME desktop environment. Today, we are proud to introduce you to the latest and greatest features of an 100% FREE and open source desktop.
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Desktop Linux goes retail
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Desktop Linux systems have been available from vendors both small -- such as NorhTec -- and large -- such as Dell -- for some time now. But, until recently, users who feel more comfortable buying from a retailer have had few choices other than some low-end systems from Wal-Mart. Things are changing.
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Astounded in Arahuay
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I recently returned from a grueling three-week stay in Peru, where I worked with the serious Ministry of Education team entrusted with the country’s 260-thousand laptop OLPC implementation.
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Linux Foundation: We'd love to work with Microsoft
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In an interview, Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's executive director, talks about desire to interoperate and discusses the desktop outlook for Linux.
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Does Linux lack mass-market appeal?
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Doesn't that headline state the obvious? Doesn't the entire world know that Linux simply doesn't offer the kind of mass-market appeal Windows and Mac OS X do? I guess not.
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Another Biased Review
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Here is another biased review, this time coming from PC Magazine. The article is a comparison of Mac OS 10.5, Vista, XP, and Ubuntu. Of the four systems, Ubuntu got the lowest score. See where I am going with this?
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First Online Free Expression Day launched on Reporters Without Borders website
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"Reporters Without Borders has launched the first Online Free Expression Day today. [...] To denounce government censorship of the Internet and to demand more online freedom, Reporters Without Borders is calling on Internet users to come and protest in online versions of nine countries that are Internet enemies during the 24 hours from 11 a.m. tomorrow, 12 March, to 11 a.m. on 13 March ..."
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Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r1 has been released
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"An updated version of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0 code name `Ramon` is available now. Parsix Ramon r1 contains updated packages, several fixes for the reported defects and introduces continent repository..."
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Why Sun`s CEO Is Fast Becoming a Leading Spokesperson for the Open-Source Community
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CEO Jonathan Schwartz shows patience and eloquence in explaining how a company can make lots of money by giving away IP.
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