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Linux Is Regaining Netbook Market Share Quickly

...next year there will be a lot of netbooks shipping on ARM Cortex-A8-based processors, and by that we're including the nVidia Tegra and Qualcomm Snapdragon, which are essentially Cortex-A8 architectures. You've got Texas Instruments and Freescale ...

From CAITLYN MARTIN, LXer,  6 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Qualcomm,  Texas Instruments,  Broadcom,  Intel

Reasonable Limitations On Freedom Of Speech

Based on some of the comments I've received in response to last week's post about what defines freedom of speech, both ones I've posted and and the handful I rejected, I've decided a follow-up is in order. Many talk about freedom of speech as if it is ...

From CAITLYN MARTIN, LXer,  5 Dec 2009
Related Topics: Supreme Court of the United States,  U.S. Congress,  Geraldo Rivera,  U.S. Republican Party

First look at Kubuntu Netbook Edition 9.10 Technology Preview and the KDE Plasma-Netbook 4.4 interface

Welcome to this year's 48th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! Small-screen displays have become an interesting playground for developers of Linux-based systems where creative engineers let their imagination run freely. Whether this is good or bad ...

From CAITLYN MARTIN, JESSE SMITH AND LADISLAV BODNAR, LXer,  30 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Intel,  Broadcom,  Microsoft Corporation

Strange Ideas About Freedom of Speech

As many of you have undoubtedly noticed I do moderate comments on my blog. If you've read the comments you know that I almost always publish what people have to say even if they strongly disagree with me. On rare occasions I hold a comment to check ...

From CAITLYN MARTIN, LXer,  28 Nov 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Washington Post Company,  O'Reilly Media

Some People Don't Know When To Leave Well Enough Alone

I've had enough of the hatred spewed at me from the Puppy Linux forums and Puppy Linux users everywhere. I am hounded, week in and week out, including three comments on DistroWatch this week, about my "refusal" to run Puppy Linux and my "crazy review". ...

From CAITLYN MARTIN, LXer,  21 Nov 2009

The Problem With The Linux Community

There is too much fanaticism in the world, people getting all exited over nothing - over stuff which is meaningless. The really important and relevant stuff is ignored. --Antony, DistroWatch comments section, post #291 I love Linux, but I sometimes ...

From CAITLYN MARTIN, LXer,  20 Nov 2009

First look at openSUSE 11.2 (DistroWatch Weekly #329)

Welcome to this year's 46th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! openSUSE 11.2, one of the oldest and most popular Linux distributions, has kept many users on Linux web sites throughout the past week. What are the new features? How does it perform? Does it ...

From CAITLYN MARTIN AND LADISLAV BODNAR, LXer,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Intel,  Novell, Inc.,  Toshiba,  Broadcom,  Google Inc.

Review: GNOME SlackBuild 2.26.3 for Slackware 13.0

Welcome to this year's 43rd issue of DistroWatch Weekly! Ah, the excitement of an Ubuntu release! Yes, "Karmic Koala", the distribution's 11th official version will hit the undoubtedly crowded download servers later this week amid the excitement of ...

From CAITLYN MARTIN, LADISLAV BODNAR AND JESSE SMITH, LXer,  26 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Toshiba,  Intel,  Jesse Smith,  Oracle,  RPM, Inc.

An Amazing Coincidence or Something More Sinister?

Fairly obvious that Microsoft "incentivized" HP to kill their Mi Linux. If they hadn't, the Windows 7 licenses would have increased the price of the HP Mini by far more than $25. Typical gangster tactics: "Nice netbook business you've got here. It ...

From CAITLYN MARTIN, LXer,  24 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Linux Netbooks: They're Still Out There

When my Sylvania netbook died last month and the manufacturer took their sweet time responding to me I was offered a refund by the dealer. Suddenly I was surveying the market again for a good buy on a netbook preloaded with Linux. I found a wide ...

From CAITLYN MARTIN, LXer,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Wal-Mart,  Google Inc.,  Amazon.com,  Best Buy

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