Ultra-Mobile Personal Computers (UMPC) are so hot right now that major PC manufacturers are competing to create the lightest, fastest and sexiest-looking portable machines imaginable. Most of these emerging sub-notebooks are pre-installed with Linux, and I wasn't surprised.
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Oracle crowns Red Hat the Linux king
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For those who had forgotten, Oracle provides Linux support. It's called "Unbreakable Linux."
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Microsoft Ex-Pats Developing Open Source Software Outside of Redmond
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There are a number of ventures run by ex-Microsofties who are seeing success. Maybe the the question real question is, “How far does the apple fall from the tree?”
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Ubuntu ported to a PDA
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Ubuntu Linux 7.04 is now available for Sharp's Zaurus PDAs. The 0.1 release comes with a minimalist filesystem that can be launched in an emulator, enhanced with software from the vast Ubuntu archives, and then flashed onto a real Zaurus.
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Sandy Gupta Shows Up - Working at Microsoft - Updated
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OpenSolaris Arrives just to Die
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OpenSolaris, Sun’s open-source take on its Solaris operating system, has finally arrived. Some people, like Jason Perlow at ZDNet think that this is great news and that Sun’s latest operating system will give Linux a real challenge.
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Linux phone maker updates tools
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Motorola will preview native Linux and Webkit widget development tools for mobile phones this quarter, it said. Additionally, at JavaOne this week, the handset vendor launched updated Java ME (Micro Edition) tools, and announced a beta release of Symbian UIQ development tools.
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Does Trent Reznor get it? Or how to piss off the RIAA.
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Well it’s been all over the place today the new Nine Inch Nails record the slip was made available by Trent Reznor, the creative force behind NIN made the post on dig himself after all. This is just the latest in high profile artiest (like radiohead) that have started to experiment in new forms of distribution for their works.
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Linux is ready, but consumers are not
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Alongside Red Hat and Novell's recent pulling away from the consumer Linux space, some are not confident the operating system (OS) will be ready for the mainstream market anytime soon.
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Dell, HP, Lenovo rev up Linux with driver promise
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Dell, HP and Lenovo have promised to push chipset vendors to make open source drivers for Linux.
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PatientOS (GPL) Physician Office EMR version 0.75 released
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PatientOS is an open source (free) electronic medical record designed as a distributed system with open source components (PostgreSQL, JBoss, Hibernate, Swing, Mirth and more).
Version 0.75 integrates iReport, an open source report writer and JFreeChart, and open source graphing library. Form wizards and other enhancement round out this release.
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Sun's 'Project Copy Linux' goes commercial
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The first supported first version of Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris, AKA Project Indiana, makes its debut today with additional backing from Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud.
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Is SCO and Its Anti-Linux Agenda Relocated to Microsoft Headquarters?
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The latest news or — shall we assume — the latest development in this alleged proxy fight against GNU/Linux (one among many if true, some of which are not even secret), is the appointment of a senior SCO man who found himself in Microsoft. His role there is particularly interesting
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Red Hat Linux Desktop Moves: Calculated Strategy
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Recently, Red Hat announced that it would not pursue the enterprise desktop market for the time being. Immediate reactions were almost as misinformed as those which followed the announcement made by Wal-Mart last month — an announcement that only meant to say that GNU/Linux PCs would be sold online but not off the shelf.
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VIA's Open-Source Efforts A Bluff?
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Last month we reported on VIA's new open-source driver efforts that was announced at the LF Austin Summit. This new strategy involves VIA providing the open-source community with NDA-free hardware specifications, code, and other resources -- in a similar fashion to what ATI/AMD and Intel have been doing for some time now.
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