KDE 4 for Netbooks: Work on Plasma Begins
Apr 09, 2009At the last KDE developer's Akademy conference, the Plasma team had assembled some ideas for KDE 4 on netbooks. These ideas will now become reality.
more »Netbook Market: Is Microsoft Winning?
Apr 08, 2009While Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc is celebrating his employer as winner in the netbook market, opportunities are opening up in the Asian market for the netbook's even smaller relative, the so-called mobile internet device.
more »Openmoko: Plan B Instead of New Smartphone
Apr 06, 2009The Openmoko FreeRunner smartphone, with its open platform, will remain the company's latest hardware product, at least for now.
more »Intel Hands over Moblin to Linux Foundation
Apr 03, 2009Hardware maker Intel has handed over hosting of the Moblin open source platform to the Linux Foundation with a hoped for larger external participation.
more »OpenMoko Project put on Ice
Apr 03, 2009With its open source operating system, the OpenMoko Project was once the pride of the community. Now, however, development of the new model will cease.
more »Embedded Platform: Wind River Linux 3.0
Apr 01, 2009Wind River has released Version 3.0 of the Linux platform for embedded device development.
more »Linux at Your Fingertip
Mar 31, 2009Finnish software developer Jerry Jalava uses Linux on a USB stick, although in a rather unusual way: the USB is part of his prosthetic finger.
more »Proprietary Driver for Ubuntu 9.04: Fglrx for X Server 1.6
Mar 18, 2009By Canonical's Bryce Harrington's account, AMD has delivered an ATI driver that should be compatible with the X Server 1.6 found in, among other places, Ubuntu 9.04.
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