For years now, there's been talk brewing about the concept of Green IT. Pundits have predicted in years past that sustainable IT would be job one soon, really soon...So where does open source software fit into the mix? How green is the GPL? Pretty green, if you ask me. In fact, companies that already use open source software are well on the way to greening their IT departments.
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"Mini" smartphone design runs Linux
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Access China and NEC Electronics are developing a "price sensitive" smartphone reference design incorporating the "new" Mini version of the Access Linux Platform (ALP) mobile stack. The touch- and 3G-enabled design will use NEC's ARM9-based MP201 system-on-chip (SoC), and a future design may use NEC's new ARM11-based Emma Mobile 1.
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German schools pilot remote virtual Debian/KDE desktops
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An educational software organization in Germany is pilot testing an educational software system based on virtualized Debian/KDE desktops. Kreisbildstelle Stade's "Desque" system serves up virtualized desktops over "standard" broadband connections, letting students and teachers access their desktops from home or school, the organization says.
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Firefox exec: we don't want to be bundled with Windows
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"My personal view is that it's not the right outcome," he said. "The choice [when installing Windows] would be weird. There's no good UI [user interface] for that.
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LiMo Foundation: More Linux Phones In 2009
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The LiMo Foundation, a non-profit consortium of mobile heavyweights prepping open-source phones, said a host of global carriers will roll out Linux-based phones sometime this year. And the new crop of devices won't hit just the high-end smartphone market, but also lower-cost feature phones.
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Linux Phones on Tap for 2009 from Verizon, Others
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Your next cheap phone might be a Linux phone – but you might never know it. The LiMo Foundation announced Monday that Verizon Wireless and other global carriers will be rolling out Linux-based phones in 2009, possibly including low-cost devices capable of running advanced Web apps.
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How do you beat free?
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How do you compete with free? Free here means no-cost. The answer is simple: you make your product cheaper. Let me explain.
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The incredible shrinking operating system
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Windows, Mac OS, and Linux are all getting smaller. What does that mean for you?
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Open source speeds up molecular research
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Simulating molecular motions provides researchers with information critical to designing vaccines and working on preventing diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. But, until recently, researchers needed supercomputers or clusters to run molecular simulations.
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Six carriers promise LiMo phones in 2009
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Six major global operators today affirmed their expectation of shipping mobile phones based on the Linux Mobile Foundation's (LiMo's) flavor of Linux during 2009. LiMo, meanwhile, announced its second, more ambitious spec, five compliant royalty-free reference implementations, and two powerful new board members, global mobile operators Telefónica and SK Telecom.
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Bank of New Zealand Reduces Carbon Footprint with Red Hat on the Mainframe
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Bank utilizes Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on IBM System z mainframes and Red Hat Network Satellite to carve costs out of its IT infrastructure
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Take note - small is beautiful
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THERE WAS a time when the only way to really be mobile with a computer was with a laptop. Then came what were termed sub-notebooks – smaller laptops which still packed a lot of power.
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Linux in schools (Gaza style)
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From an Open Source perspective January has been a very busy, if slightly surreal, start to 2009 and from a blogging perspective it has been not dissimilar to Alice in Wonderland. By this I mean that like Alice, if you follow a rabbit pel mel into a hole you cannot be sure what will emerge.
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"Car OS" links Linux with telematics systems
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OpenSynergy is readying a Linux-based "car operating system" and an Intel Atom-based evaluation board for automobile infotainment systems. The COQOS platform aims to let Linux-based infotainment applications and AUTOSAR-compliant telematics modules share the same system-on-chip processor, which is virtualized by a "micro operating system" (μOS) layer.
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World's largest mobile operator takes LiMo
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The Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMo) got a huge boost today, when global carrier Vodafone, world's largest wireless operator (by sales), tapped U.S. software firm Azingo to develop Linux-based mobile applications. Reuters called the news "the latest sign (Vodafone) is keeping Linux operating system LiMo as one of its key choices."
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