09.01.08
Links 01/09/2008: More New GNU/Linux Sub-Notebooks
GNU/Linux Laptops
- Commodore UMMD 8010/F netbook announced
Available in four colours; white, black, grey and sweet pink prices for the laptop start, considering its offering, at a staggering £325.
The UMMD 8010/F will be available later in the month a spokesperson told Pocket-lint.
- MiTAC launches MiSTATION netbook: Windows or Linux support
Owners of Mio and Navman, MiTAC are just the latest company to launch their own netbook computer. The MiSTATION netbook comes with an 8.9-inch screen and is powered by a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor.
The netbook has a choice of either a 20GB SSD or a 60GB Hard Drive. You will have the choice of either Windows XP or Linux, depending on which you prefer.
- A Quick Guide to Netbooks
Price is probably the most compelling, followed by the feature set. In my own experience, I’m finding that the Linux implementations are a third factor. While many netbook makers are offering custom Linux builds for simplicity, they have to balance that with the ability for the everyday consumer to add, extend and customize their own experience.
- MSI intros cut-price Linux mini-laptop
The low-cost Wind matches the spec of its pricier stablemates but comes in at £269 ($485/€332) instead of £329 ($593/€406) by coming pre-loaded with Linux and sporting an 8.9in, 1024 x 600 display instead of a 10in screen.
- The UMPC is dead; long live the netbook!
In fact, about the only true MIDs to reach market appear to be Nokia’s N Series Internet Tablets. These devices, which debuted, some two years before Intel’s “invention” of the MID, have only met with limited success.
What’s more, few device vendors have followed Nokia over the MID cliff.
Phones
- Smartphone mania
Linux devices emerge, while iPhone suffers growing pains
- 1.28 billion mobile phones to ship this year
- Google announces Android Market and Android Challenge winners
Later the same day, Chu announced the winners in the Android Developers Challenge. Out of 50 teams of finalists, ten were chosen to receive $275,000 awards and another ten, $100,000 awards.
- Why Android Market will surpass Apple’s App Store and Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace
GNU/Linux
- Webmin: can a graphical front end for system administration replace the command line?
- The upcoming release season
As has been tradition in the distribution development circles, the arrival of September usually means one thing: a highly intensive testing period prior to a big flurry of distribution releases.
- Debian Is Live Now!
- Things I Miss When I’m Forced to Work in Windows
1. Good window management: The scroll wheel in Windows only works when I click inside IE. I can’t just move my mouse over the window and start scrolling…
- 10 Reasons I Use Linux
- Age of Linux- Steve. J
- Ubuntu Studio: A Multimedia Professional’s Dream Distro: Pictorial Walkthrough
- Bring ‘n burn
Periodicals
- Gentoo Monthly Newsletter: 31 August 2008
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 106
- KDE Commit Digest : Issue 125 : 24th August 2008
- Linux Gazette: September 2008 (#154)
Applications
- 20 Linux apps you can’t live without
- Top 7 Best-kept Ubuntu Secrets
- Firefox, the king of web browsers
- 2008 Open Source CMS Award Finalists Announced
- A Response to Franklin Street
Leftovers
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Chris Moody, GNU-Linux network volunteer for a San Diego public school. 02 (2004)
Digital Tipping Point is a Free software-like project where the raw videos are code. You can assist by participating.
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.