09.24.08

Links 24/09/2008: New X, Red Hat on Dell Laptops

Posted in News Roundup at 9:33 pm by Roy Schestowitz

Panel PC runs fanlessly
Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” (Alpha 6): first impressions
Astrophysicists Rely on Linux to Crunch Data
Displaying the price of Microsoft Windows to be decided by the ECJ?

Most laptops are sold without the price of Microsoft Windows displayed before the consumer buys it. This is an issue if you want to use another piece of software on your laptop, such another version of Microsoft Windows, or Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or OpenSolaris. In an answer given by Commissioner Kuneva to Belgian MEP Saïd El Khadraoui (PSE), there is a mention of two decisions pending at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) related to this issue…
Ease Linux Deployments With Cobbler
Dell launches monster quad-core notebook [with Red Hat Linux]

The weighty, from 3.88kg (with one HDD) machines come with a nine-cell “85Whr” battery. Operating system? Windows Vista 32-bit and 64-bit, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS are the pre-load options.
Dell Mini Inspiron 9

I’m living the dream, I tell you! I’ve swapped my MacBook for a Dell Mini and so far the experience has been pretty positive.
Linux distro targets netbook OEMs
Linux On a Nutshell

Mini-Notebook Mania, Part 1
Eee-Box: Mini Desktop Doubles RAM in its Linux Version

The Eee Box B202, with an Intel Atom N270 CPU at 1.6 GHz, is available at around $300 for the Windows XP version with 1 GByte RAM and an 80-Gbyte hard drive. The Linux/Easy OS version, for about the same price, has twice the power at 2 Gbyte RAM and a 160-Gbyte drive.

Sun: OpenSolaris ‘pretty freaking amazing’

Recently, Sun was touting the fact that more than 150,000 people have joined the OpenSolaris community. This is a pretty big number, particularly since the first release of OpenSolaris, dubbed 2008.05 and developed under the code-name “Project Indiana,” only started shipping in May. That number doesn’t tell the whole story.
OpenSolaris 0811-98 Screenshots
Desktop Virtualisation Today
Is Sun Solaris on its deathbed?

Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun’s rival Solaris Unix OS hang on, or is it destined to be displaced by Linux altogether?

[W]hat does a “KDE app” mean?

So Amarok fits just fine, and does so on many platforms that are more exotically different from the KDE desktop than GNOME is. So why does this attitude persist?
Interview with Johan Thelin
Cinepaint with GTK+2 Widgets on Gentoo…

Larry Augustin, GNU Linux business visionary 30

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