Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Netgear has announced a new open source wireless router today (the WGR614L) and has launched a new web community, MyOpenRouter.com.
The new portal site features a ton of articles, tutorials, downloads and community advice to support “Netgear’s open source router community.”
The WGR614L itself is being marketed as an “open-source router for Linux developers and open-source experts” on the Netgear site. The WGR614L is priced at an affordable $69 (or about 44€).
Netgear [via InformationWeek & ZDNet]
Tags: netgear, Open Source, router, wgr614l
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
As I wrote just a couple of hours ago, MSI is making a desktop version of it’s Wind sub-notebooks. Engadget now brings us the news that the Wind desktops will arrive in Europe and Asia in September. Also see the hands-on and more pictures with TweakTown.
TweakTown [via Engadget]
Tags: desktop, msi, wind
Posted in Hardware, Rumour, Speculation | No Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Ars Technica has good coverage of the newly released Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex alpha 1. As this is an early alpha, the feature set is likely to change significantly before we see the final release, or even a beta. Among the most prominent new features (at the moment) you will find a wholly new theme (called “NewHuman”) and support for USB images and installation media.
IF you like, you can download and try out the alpha yourself, but be warned that this is an ALPHA, so don’t use it on a production machine.
Ars Technica
Tags: 8.10, intrepid ibex, ubuntu
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
“A Linux user who was jailed for uploading a film onto a peer-to-peer service has been told he will have to switch to Windows if he wants to use a computer again. ”
Does this count as cruel and unusual punishment?
CNet
Tags: cruel, felonies, linux
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Apparently MSI will follow in Asus’s footsteps and create a desktop version of their sub-notebook. The desktop Wind will likely have pretty much the same internals as the current notebook editions. It will be powered by the same 1,6GHz Intel Atom CPU and feature 1GB of DRAM(upgradeable to 2GB), a 3.5-inch HDD with up to 160GB of storage and WLAN 802.11b/g built in. A DVD drive will also be included.
The price will range from $199 to $299, depending on the feature set. The InfoWorld article says that the machines will ship with Windows XP, but hopefully a Linux version will also be available…
InfoWorld [via Gizmodo]
Tags: desktop, msi, wind
Posted in Hardware, Media Coverage, Rumour | No Comments »
Monday, June 30th, 2008
If you’re looking for financial tools to run on a Linux system, it’ll be worth your time to have a look at this article on TechRepublic. Note that not all of the tools are open source.
- GnuCash (I personally use this)
- KMyMoney
- Moneydance
- Appgen MyBooks
- NolaPro
- Linux Business Accounting Systems BasicBooks
- Quasar Accounting
- SQL-Ledger
- Rapid Graphing Software for Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities
- Crossover Office
TechRepublic
Tags: financial, linux
Posted in Closed-Source, Media Coverage, Open Source, Software | No Comments »
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Well, not quite. 75% of my visitors using Firefox use Firefox 3.0. Overall, 60% of my visitors use Firefox. The statistics are:
- Firefox (60%)
- Internet Explorer (27%)
- Safari (8%)
- Opera (5%)
And the Firefox versions?
Tags: firefox, firefox 3, usage
Posted in Media Coverage, Open Source | No Comments »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
As you may have noticed, The Proliferation of Linux now has a new theme. I’ve been trying to find a new one ever since the inception of the blog, and I finally hit one which I can live with. It’s based on a theme called Bluebox (created by Blog Oh! Blog) and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.
The theme (with my modifications) can be downloaded from here [7z 137 KiB]. Please remove all tPoL branding if you choose to use this for your own blog.
For the original, please go to Blog Oh! Blog.
Tags: theme
Posted in Internal news, User Interfaces | No Comments »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Erik Huggers from the BBC recently gave Fedora 9 a try and has written a brief story about it on the BBC site. Overall he found it to be quite good and leads him “to believe in the potential of Linux as a mainstream operating system.”
Nice to see members of the mainstream media giving Linux some thought.
BBC Internet Blog [via OSNews]
Tags: bbc, fedora
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