The PC-Z1 NetWalker by Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp is a mini-netbook with a 5" touchscreen (1024x600px) display that runs Ubuntu 9.04 or more precisely Ubuntu Smartbook Remix.
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Battle of the Apps: Android v Apple
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Is Android ever going to be able to compete with Apple and the iPhone on the software front? The figures do not make for great reading if you are an Android fan.
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Mound Data Manager – Manage data in the context of other applications
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Mound Data Manager is a tool that can manage data in the context of other applications. You can take snapshots, delete, and move data from many of your favorite applications.
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Red Hat's Whitehurst: What Next For Open Source?
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Red Hat can't match Microsoft or Oracle's marketing budgets, but the open source paradigm gives it an advantage in the long term, chief executive Jim Whitehurst told eWEEK Europe.
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Apache Web Log Analyzer
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Webmasters have a few log file analysis options. Many web hosting companies provide pre-installed scripts like Webalizer that automatically perform an Apache log file analysis and display the results in a web browser.
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How To Install Django On Debian Lenny (Apache2/mod_python)
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This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Debian Lenny server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide.
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How do Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu fit in?
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In addition to the highly popular Ubuntu operating system, Canonical also sponsors several "official" derivatives of Ubuntu, aimed at different types of hardware, different user preferences, and different use cases.
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Wally: Best Automatic Wallpaper Changer Application I've Seen
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We wrote about different automatic wallpaper changer applications either for Windows, Linux and / or Mac OSX but Wally is special. Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa and Smugmug images. Not only that, but it also works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
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HandBrake is a free, open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. I have used Handbrake to convert several types of video files to work on my various gadgets including the Sidekick and g1 mobile phones.
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Get Thunderbird to minimizing to tray instead of closing
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one thing i have always wished for is the ability to run thunderbird in the background so that if i close is i want it to minimize to the system-tray/notification area and inform me real time when i have a new mail.
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Linux backers rally against Microsoft patents
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A ROOKERY of penguin fanciers has been meeting to protect Linux from Volish patent lawsuits. Such big names and IBM, Red Hat and Sony. Their plan is to avert legal threats that might discourage the adoption of Linux by buying up a set of 22 patents formerly owned by Microsoft.
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Where is the value in Linux?
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I am pretty sure that the question in the title is asked quite a lot. Especially by enterprise managers and bean counters the world around. When that question is asked of us, how should we answer it?
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VMFS-3, How Do I Despise Thee
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The VMWare Cluster Locking File System, version 3 (VMFS-3) Is one of the core technologies used in VMWare ESX/vSphere 4 virtual infrastructure environments. Unfortunately, it's also a completely proprietary black box that makes interoperability nearly impossible.
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Openbravo QuickStart Speeds Open Source ERP Deployments
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Imagine the following scenario: You're an integrator that wants to quickly deploy ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications for your small business customers.
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Red Hat Defends its Subscription License Model
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Company officials stress ROI, TCO at conference; projects for Ruby app server, ease of use also highlighted.
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