In recent weeks, Dell.com’s U.S. website has not offered Ubuntu Linux desktop PCs. But that situation could change the week of August 2. Here’s the scoop from The VAR Guy.
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Hot IT Skills: Linux is No. 2 of Top 15
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"The following lists of “hot” IT skills – very much in demand by employers – is based on Foote Partners' survey of nearly 2,000 U.S. and Canadian employers." Linux is number 2!
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Will Smartbooks Replace Netbooks?
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Could netbooks be replaced by smartbooks? Yes. But will they? Maybe. The general idea is to run smartphone software such as Google's Linux-based Android and Microsoft's Windows CE (AKA Windows Mobile) on portable computers with 7in-10in screens.
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Automated spam translation keeps global spam rates near 90%
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While spam levels globally remain at a two-year high of approximately 90 percent, some European countries are seeing levels of over 95%.
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ARM-Based Pegatron Netbook Protoype
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Running at a 1Ghz frequency, it is capable of playing 720p video and run basic 3D applications. While Android isn't ready for Netbooks yet, this Pegatron runs Ubuntu (Linux) just fine.
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If ISPs don’t dictate everything, why do cellphone carriers?
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For the most part, your ISP provides a service and you are free to use that service as you wish... Imagine, though, (and imagine it quickly before it becomes a reality) if your ISP blocked Hulu because it duplicated the functionality of (competed with) their TV service for which they had been trying to get you to sign up.
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Google Android "Donut" will not include multi-touch
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Android developers looking forward to the inclusion of multi-touch support in the upcoming release of Google's open source mobile operating system, code named "Donut", will need to wait even longer. It was previously believed that Donut, which would see a final release as Android version 2.0, would include the much anticipated multi-touch gesture support.
Read more »Red Hat: 'We spend over $100 million a year to advance Linux'
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Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's former CEO and current chairman, has been in semi-retirement for the past two years, but you'd never know it from listening to his interview with the BBC's Peter Day. Szulik, ever the revolutionary, talks up open source's opportunity to disrupt conventional software and promote social reform.
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Openoffice.org- The rise and rise of Open Source.
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There is a storm that is taking the software industry by storm. The name of this storm is Free and Open Source and one of its flagship products is called Open Office.
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Palm webOS: The Other Linux Phone Platform
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From my view in the cheap seats, Palm has come out swinging with its new mobile operating system, webOS.
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Palm Pre Is the Most Open Mobile Platform on the Market
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You're lucky that you missed the review I had written of Palm's Pre after working with it for six weeks. I couldn't see the attraction.
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OLPCsb: Deploying XO Laptops in USA Classroom (Pt 5)
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With our international program still developing, technological kinks being worked out, and our local teacher and University students still exploring and researching ways for the XO's to be integrated into the California 3rd grade curriculum, we have not yet done extensive documentation and created a resource model.
Read more »Ubuntu Netbooks: Strong Demand at System76
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As I scour the market for a potential Ubuntu netbook purchase, I've stumbled onto two interesting tidbits of info: First, Ubuntu netbook demand recently exceeded supply at System76. Second, another niche Ubuntu PC maker will introduce a netbook this August.
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An open source movement in health information?
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Today's Report of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission, "A Healthier Future For All Australians: Final Report," makes the e-health system a central plank in the future of health management in Australia.
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50 Open Source Apps Transforming Education
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More teachers and institutions are now participating with organizations like SchoolForge, the Open Source Education Foundation, and Open Source Schools. These educators are beginning to see that the open source philosophy has the power to transform education in several key ways.
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