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Dell ships Ubuntu- and Atom-based netbook

September 05, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 3 hours ago

Dell announced its first netbook, a $350 Intel Atom-based model loaded with Ubuntu Linux 8.04. The Inspiron Mini 9 offers a 1.6GHz Atom N270, up to 1GB SDRAM, an 8.9-inch, 1024 X 600 display, three USB ports, Ethernet, and a 4GB solid-state drive.

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Where do community managers fit?

September 05, 2008 (9:30:00 PM) - 3 hours, 30 minutes ago

Our good friend Joe Brockmeier, community manager for openSUSE, has just started blogging for ZDnet. In one of his inaugural posts, he ruminates over where a community manager belongs in corporate structure: engineering or marketing? His post was in response to Stormy Peters, who thinks the support team is a good place. As a fellow community manager, these posts are a fantastic opportunity for me to talk about a subject that’s near and dear to me: me.

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Red Hat Bets on Startup to Shake Up Virtualization

September 05, 2008 (9:00:00 PM) - 4 hours ago

Linux vendor Red Hat is upping the ante in the virtualization market today with the $107 million dollar cash acquisition of privately held virtualization vendor Qumranet.

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What's Coming in Ubuntu 8.10?

September 05, 2008 (8:30:00 PM) - 4 hours, 30 minutes ago

The next Ubuntu release is already around the corner. Only two more months, and the next tidal wave of brown 2 paragraph reviews will be upon us. PolishLinux decided that they'd be ahead of the pack, by taking a look at what Ubuntu 8.10 looks like right now, and what new features it brings. Of course, many of these features come from upstream, and will find their way into other distributions as well - or are already there.

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Dell will continue to offer the Microsoft Windows XP operating system to customers beyond the June 30th deadline

September 05, 2008 (8:00:00 PM) - 5 hours ago

Dell will continue to offer the Microsoft Windows XP operating system to customers beyond the June 30th deadline.

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Kick Linux To The Curb?

September 05, 2008 (7:30:00 PM) - 5 hours, 30 minutes ago

Recently I found myself presented with the possibility of switching to Apple's OS X. Keeping in mind that I already have a Mac in our home in the form of my wife's computer, the idea of me using it did get me thinking. What would it take for me to completely abandon Linux and return to the world of closed source operating systems?

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Open Source Software: Your Company's Legal Risks

September 05, 2008 (7:00:00 PM) - 6 hours ago

Open source software is a convenient way for developers to build solutions. However, if your company plans to distribute that software, a recent ruling makes it clear that failing to follow the open source license could put you in jeopardy of a copyright claim, according to Michael P. Bennett and Katherine K. Ivers of the Wildman Harrold law firm.

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My first Linux laptop is the Asus EeePC netbook

September 05, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 6 hours, 30 minutes ago

My first Linux laptop is the ASUS EeePC. This is a sweet machine in many ways. It boots up very quickly. All its functions are accessed through icons so you need know nothing. All its software is pre-installed so you need to do nothing.

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Ubuntu Linux Netbooks: What Dell Can Learn From ZaReason

September 05, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 7 hours ago

Dell Mini 9 Netbook Runs Ubuntu LinuxDell’s new sub-notebook, the Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook, is the latest vote of confidence for Ubuntu Linux in the desktop and mobile markets. I’m genuinely impressed with Dell’s commitment to Ubuntu. But Dell can learn two key lessons from ZaReason, a small PC maker that specializes in Ubuntu systems.

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Sorting Perl Lists And Removing Duplicates On Linux Or Unix

September 05, 2008 (5:30:00 PM) - 7 hours, 30 minutes ago

This may be the first time I've run a series of posts where the topic was different every step of the way. That's a good thing, because I get just as bored as anyone else reading about the same thing over and over ;) So, following in the footsteps of our posts on Number Pools And Guaranteed Combinations Within Fixed Lists and Perl List Permutations, we'll move straight ahead to the next logical step, which is almost an entirely different subject altogether. I will however, reiterate (repeat again... sorry, one of my idiosyncrasies ;) our Objective in this whole exercise (Skip to the next paragraph if you feel I've done this sentence to death ;) : Given a Number Pool of "x through y," create the maximum possible Fixed List Length variations of our Fixed List that contain some variation of our Guaranteed Combination, without any duplication (i.e. 1, 2, 3 is equal to 2, 3, 1 and would only count as one match), and return the results.

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Windows Guy Tries Open Suse 11

September 05, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 8 hours ago

I’m a Windows Guy. I work on a Windows network for a living. I’ve been a network engineer for over a decade. It’s not that I’m opposed to Linux or OSX, I’m just more familiar with XP and Vista so I tend to use it for everything. Some of you might be laughing already, but I like Windows. It gets the job done for me and for millions of other people. It’s fairly easy to use, fairly easy to upgrade with new hard ware, there is a plethora of software and I can do all the things I want to do on it.

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Amazon to sell laptops from foundation

September 05, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 8 hours, 30 minutes ago

Low-cost laptops from the One Laptop Per Child Foundation of Cambridge will go on sale at Amazon.com this holiday season, making the $200 computers available for the first time through a retail store.

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BasKet - opensource note pad for openSUSE

September 05, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 9 hours ago

BasKet Note Pads is a free opensource notepad/scrible pad software for Linux. BasKet can be used as a manual clipboard. This means that you can drop files of all kinds inside. They can be grouped in different tabs. BasKet is very simple to use and easy to differentiate between notes by setting tags, priorities and flags.

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Do you want a notebook with that order?

September 05, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 9 hours, 30 minutes ago

I know some of you really, really wanted Dell's first mini-notebook to have a price-tag of $299 and you're down because the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 starts at $349 with Ubuntu Linux or $399 with Windows XP. Well, just wait, you're soon going to be able to get it for even cheaper with a 3G or Wi-Fi contract.

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Beta Debian 5.0 Live Version Available

September 05, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 10 hours ago

Debian 5, Lenny, is getting closer to delivery and as part of that, the Debian Live Team has released the first official version of Debian Live.

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Red Hat's $107 million virtualization gambit

September 05, 2008 (2:30:00 PM) - 10 hours, 30 minutes ago

Red Hat is taking aim at every other virtualization vendor - be it Citrix, VMware or Microsoft - with this buy. The argument is simple: The OS is critical and the OS is what Red Hat is all about. "You may not know this but most virtualization solutions today use components developed by Red Hat for their critical functions," Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens said on a conference call. "These competitors are highly dependent on Red Hat for feature development and hardware enablement - no one is better equipped to carry open source leadership forward."

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"Olympics" phone runs Linux

September 05, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 11 hours ago

China Unicom is distributing a Samsung Electronics phone that runs a mobile Linux stack from Mizi Research, a company that will soon be acquired by Wind River. Samsung's "Olympics" phone, also called the SCH-i859, is equipped with a Marvell PXA300 processor and a 2.8-inch touchscreen.

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Smallest x86 board ever?

September 05, 2008 (12:00:00 PM) - 13 hours ago

Lippert has upped the maximum amount of RAM available soldered onto its CoreExpress-ECO computer-on-module (COM). Now available with 2GB of RAM, and targeting mobile embedded PC applications, the 28-gram, Intel Atom-based board uses Lippert's own 2.3 x 2.6 inch (58 x 65mm) "CoreExpress" COM format.

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OpenSolaris Project: Hadoop Live CD

September 05, 2008 (10:00:00 AM) - 15 hours ago

Organizations routinely collect a huge amount of data, including web crawls, email messages, and scientific data. Processing these datasets with traditional relational database models or streaming algorithms is no longer scalable. A new data processing model, MapReduce, addresses this challenge by leveraging large clusters of hundreds or thousands of heterogeneous servers.

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Google Chrome Considered Harmful

September 05, 2008 (8:00:00 AM) - 17 hours ago

IconIt appears that Google scored a PR success with their Chrome browser. In short, the promise is a web experience where web pages are allowed to behave more like desktop applications.

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