We have another entry in the UMPC (that’s Ultra Mobile PC to those who might not know) market. I was impressed with the eeepc from ASUS and I was considering purchasing one. But now I’m saving my pennies for this guy.
Read more »GNU Hurd, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"GNU Hurd (usually referred to as the Hurd) is a free software computer operating system kernel, released under the GNU General Public License. It has been under development since 1990 by the GNU Project of the Free Software Foundation. It consists of a set of servers (or daemons, in Unix terminology) that work on top of a microkernel; together they form the kernel of GNU. The Hurd aims to surpass Unix kernels in functionality, security, and stability, while remaining largely compatible with them..."
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Free Software In ethics and in Practice : Talk by Dr. Richard M. Stallman
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"Richard M Stallman, Leader of the Free Software Movement, will be visiting Kochi on 10th January 2008. He will deliver a talk on 'Free Software in ethics and in Practice' at the Union Christian College, Aluva..."
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UK Government: Closed Minds on Open Source
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To its eternal shame, the UK Government uses far less open source than most. Worse, it seems to have a closed mind to the whole idea.
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Personal robots coming, study finds
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The personal robot market will be worth $15 billion annually by 2015, according to an ABI report. Most personal robots shipping today use proprietary OSes, although Linux is slowly migrating from the commercial to the consumer robot market, according to an ABI analyst.
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McAfee Issues Warning Over 'Ambiguous' [Free Software] Licenses
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"McAfee warned that license terms governing [Free Software] 'may result in unanticipated obligations regarding our products.' ..."
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Riding the open source Storm
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Open source guru Stormy Peters talks about the global initiative to count how much open source software is used by enterprise, and her upcoming keynote at Melbourne’s Linux Conference
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OLPC: Won't miss Intel's 'half-hearted' laptop effort
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Intel's resignation from the One Laptop Per Child Project's board of directors will have "no impact" on the group's operations, since the chip maker contributed little to the project since joining last year, OLPC President Walter Bender said in an interview.
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Intel Quits OLPC Board Over Pressure to Kill Classmate PC
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Intel today resigned from the One Laptop Per Child Project's board of directors after refusing a request to abandon its Classmate PC program.
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68 Linux Related Free E-books
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I have decide to make a comprehensive list of Free Linux related e-books.
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Don't let the EU sanction DRM
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"Take action: Sign the Open Letter demanding that Viviane Reding retract her statement in support of DRM..."
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HowTo install Avant Window Navigator (AWN) in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
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Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen. It has support for launchers, task lists, and third party applets.
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Addressing Some of the Common Memes About KDE 3 and KDE 4
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Now that KDE 4.0.0 is tagged and out and that bit of worry and concern is behind him for the moment, Aaron J. Seigo takes a moment to talk about KDE 4.0. In particular, He addresses some of the common memes, in fairly random order, that he sees about KDE 3.5 and KDE 4.0.
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Scribus: Professional page layout for Linux
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Scribus is an open-source page layout program that runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Is it a viable alternative to proprietary products for professional production work?
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U.S. Patent Office gets funding increase
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has received a budget increase of about 9 percent for the government's 2008 fiscal year, prompting praise from some tech groups.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
