I have recently been in the market for a new smartphone. The iPhone looks like some nice hardware and I’m already an AT&T customer, but after seeing news like this I’m just not buying. Apple has proven to me that I don’t want to live in a closed ecosystem. Sometimes is really is true that “you don’t know what you got ‘till it’s gone.”
Read more »The Value Of Open Platforms (aka Why I Don’t Own An iPhone)
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IBM, Linux and the Microsoft-Free PC
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IBM is expanding its Linux solution set today with a new initiative together with Red Hat, Novell and Ubuntu for Microsoft-free PCs.
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Open phone hardware vendor frees schematics
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OpenMoko has promised to publish schematic diagrams for its latest hardware design, the Neo FreeRunner. Schematics should enable community developers to create alternative firmware for the device, in order to better adapt it to entirely new purposes.
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Ubuntu Mobile Edition: Review
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The mobile Internet device (MID) space is one of the fastest growing platforms with new concept designs appearing every month. Nokia was one of the earliest vendors with a product (Nokia 770) in this space to ship with a Linux operating system (OS) and continues to see solid sales with the current model 810. New concept designs come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, and many sport a Linux OS.
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Coverity's open source code audit efforts are funded by the US government (video)
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Coverity famously helps open source projects audit their code and eliminate security holes and other bugs, and earns its corporate income by selling software that does the same thing to proprietary software companies. Few seem to realize, though, that Coverity started doing free open source code audits because it got a grant from the US Department of Homeland Security.
Read more »Licensing Gives Linux the Edge over Windows in the Virtualization Battle
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There’s been a lot of interesting product wars over the years: WordPerfect vs. Word, 1-2-3 vs. Excel, Harvard Presentation Manager vs. PowerPoint, Novell vs. Windows NT, Netscape vs. Internet Explorer, Palm OS vs. Windows Mobile, and the list goes on and on.
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Netbooks spark Linux redesigns
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The sparsely populated floor at Linuxworld was a disappointment, but netbooks made an impact at this year's show, a sign that these lightweight machines may bring the Linux OS to a larger audience.
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From Lego robots to hammers and nails, Linux gets embedded
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The computing industry is familiar with the low-cost lab known as the garage, a historic hot-bed for innovation, and this week LinuxWorld had its own "garage" to showcase embedded Linux.
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Open Source and the Poor Man's Supercomputer
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IBM made a slew of announcements and predictions on open source topics at this week's LinuxWorld conference, but one of the least talked about and written about announcements was this one (Matt Asay did single it out). IBM released its HPC Open Software Stack as open source, aiming at cheaper-to-deploy, simpler supercomputers.
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Linux-compatible netbook sports multiple colors
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Digital Gadgets has announced an 8.9-inch netbook computer that will sell under the Sylvania brand name. Offered in four different colors, the Linux-compatible "g netbook MESO" includes a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 80GB hard drive, four-cell battery, webcam, and 802.11b/g wireless networking, according to the company.
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Linux risks netbooks defeat to Microsoft
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Ubuntu-based things do pretty well in techie circles. The consumer space is a different beast, as gOS discovered when mega retailer Wal-Mart blamed poor demand from those sporting baseball caps and mullets for its decision to stop selling PCs loaded with its version on Linux earlier this year.
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Three things the Linux desktops needs to do to beat Windows
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While at LinuxWorld at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, I chaired the panel on what the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) that are pre-installing Linux on their PCs are up to and I attended another panel on what the Linux desktop architects have planned.
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DimDim vs Wiziq
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Compares DimDim and Wiziq free web meeting softwares and their offerings. DimDim is open source while Wiziq offers free virtual classroom options for upto 20 attendees.
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PatientOS Open Source EMR - Acute Care Documentation released
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PatientOS is an Open Source GPLv3 Helathcare Information System in the making. PatientOS version 0.82 brings together Acute Care Documentation, a rewrite of the Scheduling UI and the introduction of user defined Order States.
The documentation includes editable flowsheets, image uploads, graphs and charts as well as inked forms.
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