As we've noted before, the T-Mobile G1 or "Google phone," based on Android, is doing better than expected. In 2009, many Android phones are going to be appearing, and as applications and innovative designs proliferate, they could give the iPhone a run for its money. Today, photos are appearing of Lenovo's Ophone, which is an Android phone that it has slated for delivery in China.
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A Quantum of FOSS
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I have been thinking for a while about how to get more exposure for Free and Open Source Software. I work in a school district which, like most, is owned by Microsoft. I have tried for several years to get more FOSS on the desktops and I have had only minimal success. Firefox is now installed on most if not all machines, and we have Audacity, GIMP and even Blender on some machines.
Read more »Whither open source in the land of leeches?
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IBM's Savio Rodrigues sees a lot of benefits from proprietary technology companies like Cisco "leeching" off open-source communities to boost profits and drive top-line revenue growth. I'm inclined to agree, at least with his assessment of IBM's involvement in open source.
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PCs for schools: an open source solution
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...one Melbourne-based open source company has prepared a plan that could meet the promise, and yet cut costs by a substantial amount.
"It's a simple proposition; we've prepared an open solution which delivers the best-possible value to education for netbook or laptop roll-outs," says Con Zymaris, CEO of long-running Linux firm Cybersource.
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With HP in, all OEMs now ship desktop Linux
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I have known for more years than I care to think about that HP has been almost ready to release a pre-configured Linux desktop system. But, then, they wouldn't pull the trigger.
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OpenSolaris now on Toshiba laptops
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Sun has reached an agreement with Toshiba to pre-install the OpenSolaris operating system on Toshiba laptops.
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Ubuntu 9.04 To Get Nouveau Driver
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The Nouveau driver has been in development for several years now but with limited developers that are reverse-engineering NVIDIA's GPUs and there being no public documentation or support from NVIDIA, it has taken quite a while to come up with a reputable open-source driver that supports all of NVIDIA's hardware.
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Only Linux can deliver 1 million school laptops within budget: systint
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Just as the world's economies started to tank, Australia's Governments got themselves into an economic bind by promising to supply public school children with laptops. However, a leading systems integrator has issued a blueprint for an affordable blanket laptop roll out using Linux and netbooks.
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More Musicians Recognizing The Power Of Free
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Every time I think we're finally reaching the point where these types of stories aren't necessary any more, because we've shown so many different musicians give away their music for free and make more money because of the additional business models they put in place, we see someone making a statement like: "but, if they give music away for free, they don't make any money and won't keep producing m
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K12Linux founders hand off project to the Fedora community
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Two Oregon educators who founded the K12Linux project seven years ago are glad that they have been able to hand that project over to Fedora, the home they always meant for K12Linux to have.
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The Many Signs That GNU/Linux Grew Significantly in 2007 - Part 2
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An article that looks at the penetration of GNU/Linux one year ago - part 2
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Distribution Release: Musix GNU+Linux 1.0R6
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"After 3 months of testing, the Stable release of Musix Live-DVD 1.0 R6 is out. It's a 100% free operating system for artists focused on music production, graphic design and video edition, based on Debian ETCH and KNOPPIX..." -- via DistroWatch
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Forensic investigation using free Linux tools
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Here is a scenario you can think about. An administrator of a company has been accused of hoarding illegal material of questionable moral content on his company network system. You have been called upon to examine the suspect server and unearth evidence related to the said illegal material. Your boss has told you that you are not allowed to shutdown the server.
Read more »Will a Linux Certification Help You Get a Linux Job?
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Will a Linux certification help you get a Linux job? The answer is: "Probably."
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How Perl Helped the Genome Project
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"Today I want to talk about how Perl helped the Human Genome Project.
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