09.02.08
Links 02/09/2008: Google Makes a Web Browser, GNU is 25
Laptops
- $98 Linux Laptop - The HiVision miniNote
HiVision CO., LTD makes one of the worlds cheapest Linux laptops at $98 using a new cheaper chipset, WiFi, 1GB flash storage, it runs Linux, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out. Voice-chat, Skype, multi-tabbed Firefox browser support, Abiword for word processing.
- CTL vows $149 Atom, Linux-based desktop
Two additional models are complete but give the buyer a choice of operating system. A $199 model is defined as the mid-range model; though it comes with just 512MB of memory, it ships with Ubuntu Linux and so doesn’t carry the same demands as a Windows system. An 80GB hard drive will also be standard on the PC.
- VIA births another kneetop
Unusually for this type of machine, it runs Vista Home Basic out of the box alongside a Linux dual interface.
- Update On The TechCrunch Tablet: Prototype A
- Acer Aspire One Review
The Aspire One comes preinstalled with Linpus Linux, which in turn is based on Fedora Core 8. I’m not really a fan of rpm distributions, but Acer have tuned this installation to the point where it will resume from suspend in around 10 seconds, and cold boot to the desktop in less than 20 seconds, so I’m reluctant to change.
- Nova media unveils mobile connection manager for Eee PCs running Linux
GNU/Linux
- 6 Places to Buy Pre-installed Linux Computers
- Opening the box: The story of the Pandora (so far)
- A letter to HP
- Free software vending machine
Freedom toaster,’ a free software CD/DVD vending machine, will be launched at Technopark in the city on Monday.
The Toaster is designed and developed by Zyxware Technologies and promoted jointly by Zyxware Technologies and GNU/Linux Users Group Trivandrum.
- One Tale of Two Scientific Distros
- Businesses don’t need to buy Linux
- VirtualBox revisited
- Citibank infuriating its customers with Linux-hostile site
- Seeing RED on my flight to LA!
- 21 of the Best Free Linux Productivity Tools
- QNAP Announces TS-509 Pro Turbo NAS
- When Linux gets cited as a matter of course, it’s truly gone mainstream
- Why Lifehacker Readers Switched to Linux
We asked the devoted Linux users, the dual-Windows-and-Linux-booters, and the newer converts to the open-source operating system last week why they made the switch to Linux, and received over 330 responses as of this posting.
- PCLinuxOS 2008 MiniMe
- You Should Try At Least One of These 7 Leading Linux Distros
- Reasons to Be Cheerful or Angry - Your Choice
- Alternative Technology to Distribute Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support
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*Ubuntu/Debian
- Kubuntu Way
- Playdeb - The Gaming Repository for Ubuntu
- Are you ready?
- Advertising Firm Standardizes On Ubuntu Linux Servers, Desktops
Advertising and marketing agencies have been loyal to the Apple Macintosh for more than two decades. But Yooter InterActive Marketing Agency is breaking from tradition and standardizing on Ubuntu Server Edition and Ubuntu Desktop Edition, Works With U has learned. Here are the details.
- The name of the next Debian Stable Release announced
It was recently announced that the next Debian stable release, the one after Lenny, will be called Squeeze.
- Debian Project News - September 1st, 2008
KDE
- KDE Commit Digest - Issue 126 - 31st August 2008
- Small KWin update
- KDE for Grannies
Now I’m looking forward to the first email from my Granny. Yes, I’m incredibly proud of her.
And I’m happy about all the effort that was taken to make KDE applications easy to use and easy to understand. Even for Grannies.
Free Software
- Free Software turns 25
- Freedom Fry — ‘Happy birthday to GNU’
- Stephen Fry punts free software
- Top 40 open source content management systems (CMS)
- GNU? Isn’t that some kind of monkey?
- Software Freedom Day 08 happening in Wellington
- Tomorrow’s War: Why FOSS Needs to Change its Views of Apple
Open Source
- Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm
- Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm
- 10 open source companies to watch
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany [open source professor]
- Strip mining of open source
Web Browsers
- Google Chrome browser announced: integrated search, improved JavaScript
- Google plans ‘Chrome’ browser
- Microsoft’s IE8 Beta 2 hogs memory, says researcher
- Can the giant IE catch the quick red Firefox?
- The real reason Google is making Chrome
- Interview with Aza Raskin, Head of User Experience for Mozilla Labs
- 11 Reasons Why Firefox Should Really, Really Be Afraid of Google’s Chrome
Leftovers
- NASA hacker makes final appeal to British government
- UK punters scowl at webmail ad targeting
- Microsoft knows nothing about Itunes files
- Zombie network explosion
Digital Tipping Point: Clip of the Day
Davide Dozza, Lead of the OpenOffice.org Italian Language Project, 01 (2004)
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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.
Hun said,
September 3, 2008 at 5:23 am
With MS putting ad blocking features and choking the google cash cow…Google had to make their own browser.
Maybe we will see an linux based os soon for desktops like andriod is for mobile directly from google.
MS is pissed. They have lost the web war. Google can live happily without depending on MS/IE anymore.
aeshna23 said,
September 3, 2008 at 8:39 am
The Bruce Byfield article on the dangers of Apple is extremely important reminder that Microsoft is not the only danger out there.
My current worry is how is Google with its new Chrome browser trying to replace Microsoft? I suppose even if Google is wildly successful beyond what seems likely now that FLOSS will be in better shape than now? But what are the nightmare scenarios?
Jose_X said,
September 3, 2008 at 10:43 am
I absolutely agree that google is an issue, but putting things into perspective, everything that passes into googleland from a windows system passes through redmondland first. In fact, redmondland has the ultimate say in what googleland sees. redmondland gets access to your most intimate, eg, when not browsing. At least this is the case for the majority of users today since they use windows/vista.