09.16.08
Links 16/09/2008: Another GNU/Linux Sub-notebook and Many New Linux-based Products
Sub-notebooks
- Kahilo KU860 convertible Linux-based UMPC
Kahilo are hoping to drum up enough interest in their Linux-based KU860 convertible UMPC for someone to buy a few dozen crates and slap a company logo on them; the OEM is offering this 7-inch WXGA touchscreen device for bulk orders. Running a 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor, 1GB of RAM and up to a 60GB hard-drive, it also includes GPS for the navigationally-challenged.
- 4 new mini-laptops — which is smallest, lightest, best?
While Windows is an option on most models, Linux is the operating system of choice because of its low cost and modest hardware requirements.
- Overpriced Netbooks only good for ‘around the house’ says AMD VP
GNU/Linux
- Long-lost Click: Wolvix again
- Adobe AIR for Linux Beta is out!
- Debian Project News - September 15th, 2008 [Lenny Update]
Luk Claes reported on the progress regarding the release of the new stable release Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny. While there are still a lot of release critical bugs to be fixed, Lenny is in good enough shape to call for upgrade tests and work on the release notes.
Adoption
- High-end developers choose commercial Linux
Developers are choosing commercial, rather than non-commercial, distributions of Linux when it comes to building high-performance or mission-critical systems, according to new research.
- How to move from legacy OS to Linux in easy stages
Embedded Linux is rapidly encroaching upon application spaces once considered the exclusive domain of embedded kernels such as VxWorks, pSOS and in-house platforms. Industry analysts show embedded Linux and open source garnering up to one-third of 32 and 64-bit designs, more than twice the share of any other embedded OS.
- Local open-source developers go global
Viet Nam’s open-source developers have joined Moblin.org, an international open-source community by adding a Vietnamese interface on the website as well as launching a competition among Vietnamese coders.
Promotion
Gaming/Graphics
- An Open-Source Radeon HD 4670? Sort Of.
- The psychology behind open source and gaming
- Blender Game Engine Tech Demo
Linux Press Releases
- Embedded Linux and FPGAs Accelerate Embedded Software Development
- Network Security Software Developer Primonics and MBX Systems Partner to Manufacture Syncsafe Authentication Gateway Appliance
- Coraid Extends Industry’s Most Affordable SAN Technology to VMware’s Virtualization
- NEC Launches “Express 5800 Scalable HA Server,” Equipped with the Latest 6-Core Xeon Processor
F/OSS
- OpenSolaris 2008.05 is robust and ready
- Sun Launches New Site for Hosting Open Source Projects
- The double-edged sword of the economy for open source
- “Written Declaration” on Open Source in the EU
- How Open is the Open Video Player Initiative?
- Open Source Systems Management: Hyperic generates Momentum Europe-wide
- Confronting Your Accuser
Firefox
- Mozilla Rethinking Firefox EULA
- Firefox 3 - The Beast Among Web Browsers
- Mozilla’s Frank Hecker on Politics 2.0, Open Source, and Participatory Democracy
Leftovers
- Phorm conforms, says UK government
- 7digital goes completely DRM free
- Is Norton Internet Security 2009 just lipstick on a pig?
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.
landofbind said,
September 16, 2008 at 10:51 pm
You’re still promoting proprietary hardware and software. You still link to PR sites that lack any substance and are only interested in promoting their proprietary wares. You’re still an hypocrite.
Nothing has changed. You read nothing that you post here. Links that have nothing to do even with software.
How can you think that you have the right to criticize anyone about their integrity, while you show so little of that yourself?
Note: comment has been flagged for arriving from an incarnation of a known (eet), pseudonymous, forever-nymshifting, abusive Internet troll that posts from open proxies and relays around the world.