The 15-inch Protege 15 and 8-inch Protege 8 respectively offer 1GHz Via Eden or 500MHz AMD Geode LX800 processors, and both include gigabit Ethernet connectivity.

Microsoft stole the netbook market from Linux, can the penguin steal it back? Sadly I think the answer is no.

Google would own the user, Oracle would own IT, and both would embrace a heavily subsidized hardware model that would be nearly impossible for Microsoft to counter.

NetApplications’ hitslink.com just released their april market share stats and linux passed 1% for the first time ever.

Some months ago, we received a steady stream of reporter questions asking, “With the emergence of Cloud computing, what will happen to Linux?” Somehow they thought it was a zero sum game and that the rise of Cloud meant the extinction of Linux.

Netbook will target the 80% of the world without a computer, not affluent westerners

Novell announced it is developing a Moblin-based version of SUSE Linux that is optimized for Intel Atom-based netbooks. In addition, Intel and Novell today announced a partnership to collaborate and encourage original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) to adopt the Linux-based Moblin distribution.

In this post, I have decided to go a bit back into basics, take a broader look at things, and actually consider the nature of open-source compared to other models.