HP to Ship Mini-Notebook with SLED Pre-Loaded?

Interesting quote of the person who got the stone rolling:Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin had two words to describe the article - "sensational and regrettable."Well ... Mr. Zemlin, this sensational article had its start in sensational quotes ... ... more

Published at LXer: After holding an invitation-only conference for key open-source developers and community members in each of the past two years, the Linux Foundation is expanding its events schedule to add a conference focused on a broader attendee base. In an announcement today, the San Francisco-based consortium, which sets Linux standards and works to promote the use of the open-source operating system, said it will hold an event called LinuxCon next September that will be open to anyon... more

Die Linux Foundation (LF) hat angekündigt, im nächsten Jahr mit der LinuxCon ein neues Linux-Event zu starten. Weiterlesen... ... more

Houston, Texas - ( The Hosting News ) - November 6, 2008 - Developer of near-continuous data protection products for Linux and Windows, R1Soft, has developed its new free beta version of Hot Copy for Linux. As a new command line utility that takes instant, readable and writable snapshots of disks or volumes on any Linux server, the solution is said to provide an unprecedented level of flexibility for IT administrators. Hot Copy creates a point-in-time snapshot of the disk w... more

Linux is no longer a choice of operating system on the Picobook Pro, according to Apricot. Although the netbook was only released last week, Apricot has decided to remove the option of SuSE Linux Enterprise Edition, which cost only £279 ($454) inste... ... more

The Picobook Pro used to utilize Linux as its operating system of choice, but now that is no more. According to Apricot, this netbook will no longer have the Linux option due to the reaction from testers.    The Picobook Pro was just released last week, but it seems Apricot has opted to remove the SuSE Linux Enterprise Edition option because testers found Linux to be “too complicated.” The Linux version cost about $454 and the Windows XP version cost $537, but now since th... more

From the article: Today we’re going to take a look at a few (well, maybe more than a few) ways to check your Linux box to find out if the reason it’s beginning to perform poorly is related to memory or memory-management issues. For today’s examples, in particular, we’ll be using SUSE Linux 9.x , but most of these examples translate just as easily to RedHat, Ubuntu and other widely-used distro’s, with some minor modifications. Read More . ... more

Hallo zusammen, wir haben ein TestScenario aufgesetzt: 3 Absoulut identische Rechner 1. Windows 2003 SQL Server 2005 SP2 2. Suse Linux Postgress DB 3. Suse Linux Oracle Wir suchen nun die Möglichkeit die Leistungsfähigkeit bzw. die Stabilität des System zu testen. Gibt es freie Tools dafür ? ... more

Los distros de Linux no están excentos de vulnerabilidades, como se ha demostrado recientemente.  La diferencia entre éstos y Windows es que dichas vulnerabilidades se atienden con premura, de manera que los usuarios estén debidamente protegidos.  Un ejemplo es SuSE Linux , donde en algunas de sus versiones se han corregido varias vulnerabilidades, a saber: Múltiples vulnerabilidades en phpMyAdmin . (sólo OpenSUSE 10.2, 10.3 se ven afectadas) Vulnerabilidad en htop que podrí... more

The VAR Guy: "Lenovo has introduced a special 60-day money back guarantee on its ThinkServers, which run Novell SUSE Linux or Windows and target small businesses. But the guarantee is only available from one specific Lenovo distributor."... more

Despite an underpowered CPU, the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC offers the best balance of small size, comfort, and functionality we’ve seen in a mininotebook, making it fast a favorite for on-the-go use. ... more

“The appearance of first netbook by Asus, EEE PC, brought to polarization in public opinion. While supporters of netbook concept accentuated mobility and low price, opponents had some other arguments in their favor. First was the fact that work on such a small device is uncomfortable, and the second objection goes to its toyish looks that only goes hand in hand with young girls and boys. Time showed that new netbook models with 8.9-inch and 10-inch diagonals can offer to most users quite satisf... more

The appearance of first netbook by Asus, EEE PC, brought to polarization in public opinion. While supporters of netbook concept accentuated mobility and low price, opponents had some other arguments in their favor. First was the fact that work on such a small device is uncomfortable, and the second objection goes to its toyish looks that only goes hand in hand with young girls and boys. Time showed that new netbook models with 8.9-inch and 10-inch diagonals can offer to most users quite satisfac... more

I knew it.  Microsoft was planning all along to create an alternative OS to Windows , albeit an “experimental” one at this stage.  It’s called Singularity, the source code is available for download here . From the site: Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We are building a research operating system prototype (called Singularity), extending programmi... more

Evangelia Berdou wrote her PHD thesis (PDF) about the effects of commercialization on the free/open source community. With it’s glib title: “Managing the Bazaar: Commercialization and peripheral participation in mature, community-led Free/Open source software projects” and being chock-full of facts and figures, this is a very informative thesis. From the introduction: The central question addressed in this study concerns the structure and ynamics underlying the ... more

In a move that bodes very well for my beloved ultra-portable category of laptops , Asus announced/leaked that there will be a nearly identical 8.9″/9″ screen model to the very popular 7″ EEE PC 701 model. Details are not as clear as we’d like, but it looks like in addition to the move from a 7″ screen to 9″, they will sport a Gig of RAM and 12 GB of HDD, doubling the RAM and tripling the storage space. All of this while gaining only slightly in size and ... more

I am a practical Linux guy. I’m not a developer, but I love technology. Although I think it’s an interesting exercise to install Linux on something (like an Xbox) on which it was never intended to run, I’m not the guy to do it. It’s from this perspective that I’m commenting on the Asus Eee PC. Specifically, I bought an Asus 701 EEE PC 4G. It has a 7″ screen, runs a flavor of Xandros Linux, has all the basic things I was looking for in a portabl... more