HP debuts Linux-based thin client
Jan. 29, 2008
Hewlett-Packard unveiled its first new thin clients since acquiring Linux thin client specialist Neoware last fall. Among the new products is a Debian-based "t5735" model featuring a CPU and GPU (graphics processor unit) from AMD, which acquired GPU specialist ATI recently. ...
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KDE Sets Roadmap for Development
Jan. 24, 2008
With version 4.0 of the popular KDE Linux desktop released, the KDE team has set a roadmap for future releases of the technology. ...
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KDE Targets Windows, Mac
Jan. 24, 2008
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Developers of KDE, the popular Linux desktop environment, are targeting Windows and enhanced Macintosh support. ...
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Sears offers cheap pre-installed Freespire Linux PCs
Jan. 17, 2008
The mainstreaming of Linux-based PCs has taken another major step forward. Sears, via its Web store, is now offering a low-priced minitower PC that comes with pre-installed Freespire 2.0 Linux. ...
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How low can you go and still run Linux?
Jan. 14, 2008
Opinion -- I remember when getting a decent PC would set you back at least a grand. Then it was $500. Now, it's $150!? That's the story that small vendor LinFX wants you to buy along with its PC with pre-installed Linux. ...
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The Easy Way to Install Programs in Ubuntu Linux
Jan. 11, 2008
Blog: Well, you could do it the manly way and type in the source-code listings with vi-EMACS--we spit upon EMACS!--and then hand-compile the program yourself with gcc. Or you could use apt-get, not really a man's man way of doing it, but OK. ...
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The $75 computer?
Jan. 11, 2008
When the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) was first proposed, much was made of how impossible it was that there could ever be a $100 computer. Well, the naysayers were right. It turned out to be a $200 computer. ...
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OLPC having bad start to 2008
Jan. 08, 2008
Opinion -- The calendar has switched over to 2008 and so far it has been anything but a happy new year for the One Laptop Per Child Project. ...
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A marriage of convenience broken: OLPC and Intel
Jan. 07, 2008
Opinion -- Can I be honest? Intel was never really interested in partnering with the One Laptop Per Child project. The marriage of Intel and OLPC was destined for divorce before the two ever walked down the aisle. ...
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OLPC: Intel contributed little to the project
Jan. 06, 2008
The day after Intel announced that it would leave the One Laptop Per Child board, the nonprofit organization shot back that the chip giant had contributed little to help the project during its six months with the group. ...
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Intel out of One Laptop Per Child scheme
Jan. 04, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters)—Intel Corp said on Thursday it will drop out of the One Laptop Per Child project and resign from the board after the project's board demanded the chipmaker stop supporting other efforts in emerging markets. ...
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R.I.P. Netscape
Jan. 02, 2008
Netscape, the Web browser that opened up not only the Web, but the entire Internet to mass use, is dead. It died after a long decline caused by its murderer, Microsoft's Internet Explorer. ...
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Everex gPC
Dec. 28, 2007
When the Everex gPC ($199 direct, without monitor) was announced, it received some fanfare as a bargain-subbasement "green" Linux-based PC, or the (quite unofficial) "Google PC," available at your local Wal-Mart. ...
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Five desktop Linux highlights of 2007
Dec. 21, 2007
Opinion -- Sometimes putting together a best-of-the-year list is like pulling teeth. There simply isn't enough big news to fill the list out. That was not a problem for desktop Linux in 2007. This year was one of the most eventful years in desktop Linux's short history. ...
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Dell announces Ubuntu 7.10 PCs with DVD playback (UPDATED)
Dec. 18, 2007
Dell has told DesktopLinux.com that it will be announcing later today, Dec. 19, that it will be releasing PCs with Ubuntu 7.10 (aka Gutsy Gibbon) as part of its Dell Consumer Linux lineup along with the ability to legally play DVDs. ...
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OpenOffice.org goes online with SAAS version
Dec. 12, 2007
Do you really like OpenOffice.org as your office suite? Would you like to be able to use it on any computer with an Internet connection? If you answered yes to both those questions, you'll be interested in Ulteo's beta of Ulteo Online Desktop, ...
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Configure Linux
Dec. 12, 2007
Some people are happy with their operating systems as installed. Others like to tinker. Still others [...] need to dive under the hood and make those systems run exactly the way they want. It's all about control, and Linux gives you as much ...
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ASUS Eee PC 4G
Dec. 11, 2007
Review -- You've probably heard of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative, which is intended to provide cheap laptops (called XOs) to underprivileged children around the world. What you might have missed is that ASUS, ...
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'Cloudbook' UMPC to run Googleish Linux
Dec. 10, 2007
Everex has confirmed plans to ship a UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) with a 7-inch screen, similar to competitor Asus's EEE PC. A source close to the company revealed that the device -- codenamed "Cloudbook" -- will ship with the Google Apps-oriented "gOS" Linux distribution early next year. ...
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Linux is about to take over the low end of PCs
Dec. 07, 2007
Opinion -- Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs in users' hands. ...
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