07.03.08
Links 03/07/2008: Acer’s GNU/Linux Laptops Come to the UK, Sabayon 3.5 Released
GNU/Linux
- Acer punts £199… er… £220… er… Linux laptop
At launch, the company stated the basic version of the Eee PC rival would run Linux, pack in 8GB of solid-state storage and 512MB of memory, and sport a £199 price tag. Company officials stressed that that figure included VAT, the UK’s 17.5 per cent sales tax.
- Terra Soft, Argo Graphics Provide Power Linux to Japan
- Google Inks Deal to Use Tele Atlas Maps on Android OS
- Kernel space: The Tru64 Advanced Filesystem
- Microkernels rule!
- Press release: Sabayon Linux x86/x86-64 3.5 Stable release
- Jack Keane sailing to Linux
- Spreading the word about CrossOver
Devices
- Ten LiMo phones this month?
Forbes has published an interview with LiMo Foundation executive director Morgan Gillis. The LiMo chief speaks out on Nokia’s acquisition of Symbian, competition with Android, the fold-in of the Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum, and a projected 10 new LiMo handsets to be announced this month.
- How Nokia’s Symbian Move Helps Google
- Garmin Nav devices run Gnome Linux
Garmin has posted Linux source code for its Nuvi 8xx and Nuvi 5xxx-series GPS navigation devices. The Nuvi 8xx offers a 4.3-inch, 480×272 display, and appears to be based on a Marvell PXA-3xx processor, Gnome Mobile Linux, and GeoClue location technology.
Ubuntu
- Linux Ubuntu - Ready For Prime Time
- Happiness is a Hot Distro
- How Linux app install leaves one PC expert befuddled
You can’t really blame Adrian, though. Adrian is a relatively new Linux user – he comes from the world of Windows, where you double click on a SETUP.EXE icon and minutes later, you’ve got an application installed on your system.
F/OSS
- Bill Gates leaves Microsoft software behind as well…
Perhaps what he should have said was ‘will you be using Firefox on a Linux platform next Bill?”
- Firefox 3 downloads set Guinness World Record
- Firefox 3 Averages 2 Million Downloads Per Day In The First Two Weeks
- JBoss app server 5.0 emerges from hiding
- Portrait: Louis Landry of Joomla! finds direction in FOSS
Microsoft
- BBC Dumps Microsoft-Backed Skinkers Apps, Switches To Adobe
- Bill Gates: Windows 7 - Amazing Things - But no clue as to what they actually are
- Trojan Lurks, Waiting to Steal [Windows] Admin Passwords
Leftovers
- New law says computer repair guys in Texas must also be licensed private investigators!!!
- An Open Video to HP
- Former HP VP charged with stealing IBM trade secrets
- IBM mainframe acquisition raises antitrust concerns
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.
aeshna23 said,
July 4, 2008 at 6:31 am
If you install Sabayon, you should be sure to type as root:
equo remove –deep mono
This will get rid of all the mono/donnet trash you don’t want on your computer. I did on my machine and it works great. I was surprised to learn sound-juicer is a mono program, but kaudiocreator is a better program anyway, though, admittedly, I do like the fact you play the CD in sound-juicer. You also lose tomboy, beagle, wine-doors, gnome-nettool, and not much else as far as I can see. On the other hand you get a lot of a space–somewhere near .5G. Sorry I didn’t measure the space better, as I surprised to learn that mono took so much space. The bottom line is that it was worthwhile on my laptop to remove mono in terms of the tradeoff between space and functionality–even if there weren’t good moral reasons to remove mono.