linuxoniphone.blogspot.com - 12/4/2008
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Donate your time and skills if you can rather than money. If you cannot do so, please consider sponsoring something we could directly use: Such as a USB serial cable (about $45 for parts from Sparkfun ), or perhaps upgrading the Slicehost slice we're borrowing from pumpkin ($60 per month, though ...
linuxdefenders.org - 12/9/2008
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linuxdefenders.org —
Peer to Patent Peer-to-Patent is a historic initiative
by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)...
that opens the patent examination process to public participation for the first time. Peer-to-Patent is an online system that aims to ...
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Linux Defenders
jkontherun.com - 12/5/2008
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jkontherun.com —
What do we have here? Looks like some
of the first pics I've seen of netbook based...
on Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset have appeared at Silicon.com . While the eight portraits likely represent more concept design rather than actual product, I like ...
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First Qualcomm Snapdragon netbook concept is a tablet
gigaom.com - 12/3/2008
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gigaom.com —
Netbooks are all the rage at the moment,
with Asus predicting that it will sell 5 million...
of its Asus Eee PC netbooks by the end of this year. However, one of the tricky aspects of netbooks is that they have much more limited hardware resources than ...
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10 Ways To Trick Out Your Netbook for Free [GigaOM]
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See Linux running on the iPhone
MacBytes.com —
... The port is of the Linux 2.6 kernel and can run on first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. PlanetBeing details his Linux port on his blog , making sure to note that the Linux project is separate from the iPhone Dev Team project. Currently the Linux port is fairly incomplete. The framebuffer driver, serial driver, serial over USB driver, and drivers for interrupts and other miscellaneous components have been successfully ported over. Read-only support for the NAND memory is coming along also, but there are a number of components still not ...
See Linux running on the iPhone
MacBytes.com —
... The port is of the Linux 2.6 kernel and can run on first and second generation iPhones as well as the first generation iPod touch. PlanetBeing details his Linux port on his blog , making sure to note that the Linux project is separate from the iPhone Dev Team project. Currently the Linux port is fairly incomplete. The framebuffer driver, serial driver, serial over USB driver, and drivers for interrupts and other miscellaneous components have been successfully ported over. Read-only support for the NAND memory is coming along also, but there are a number of components still not ...
Everyone's free Linux: DeviceVM's Splashtop
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols's blog —
One of the neat things about Linux has always been that you can run it on just about anything: iPhones , xBoxes , PS3 , you name it, you can run Linux on it. So, why not, the good people at DeviceVM thought, make a desktop Linux that came bundled in a PC's motherboard: Splashtop. Splashtop is a mini-desktop Linux distribution that's based on the 2.6.20 Linux kernel. Currently, Splashtop comes pre-installed on pretty much all ASUS motherboards and on netbooks and laptops from ASUS, HP's high-end VoodooPC division and Lenovo . Rumor has ...
An Android Army vs. a Solo iPhone, and No Linux for PS3
LinuxInsider —
... from the start any way." Similarly: "I hate to say it, but Sony probably lost more PS3 sales Download Free eBook - The Edge of Success: 9 Building Blocks to Double Your Sales by removing the PS2 compatibility than they did removing the ability to run Linux," added VGPowerlord. Then again: "I don't think this is going to stop anyone from running Linux on the slim PS3," sunderland56 wrote. "It's not like the iPhone comes with an "install other OS" option in the boot code." Ha! Good point. 'Sad to See This' "I'm sort of sad to see this, mainly because it's just really neat ...
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