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Asustek to release more 'Eee' Linux desktop PCs —
Feb. 01, 2008 —
Asustek, the company behind the popular Xandros Linux-powered Asus Eee PC 4G ultramobile PC, knows it's got something good going on, and so it's going to push its Linux desktop PCs for all it's worth. ...
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Getting Office 2007 fonts into Linux —
Jan. 30, 2008 —
The really big problem in document formats is what's going to become the next office document format: Microsoft's proprietary Open XML or OpenOffice's ODF (Open Document Format). ...
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Vive la Ubuntu libre! —
Jan. 30, 2008 —
The Linux desktop may be moving forward slowly in the United States, but it's a vastly different story in Europe. ...
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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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PC vendor Lenovo has promised ThinkPads with pre-installed Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 for some time now. Lenovo will deliver the goods the week of Jan. 14. 
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