http://linux.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2009, Geeknet, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2010-02-10T14:50:32+00:00 Geeknet, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://linux.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/NJ-k8LxZAcw/A-Never-Reboot-Service-For-Linux An anonymous reader writes "Ksplice, the company based on the MIT Ksplice project, is now offering its 'never reboot' service for Red Hat, Debian, and other Linux distros. You subscribe and get real-time kernel security updates that apply in-memory instead of rebooting. Last summer we discussed the free service for Ubuntu. Cool tech, but will people really pay $4 a month for this?"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2341249/A-Never-Reboot-Service-For-Linux?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/2341249"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2341249/A-Never-Reboot-Service-For-Linux?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Bb3Fp5t6a79OX6Hj9AMkIlAFJGQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Bb3Fp5t6a79OX6Hj9AMkIlAFJGQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Bb3Fp5t6a79OX6Hj9AMkIlAFJGQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Bb3Fp5t6a79OX6Hj9AMkIlAFJGQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/NJ-k8LxZAcw" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-02-10T00:21:00+00:00 security bits-don't-rot linux 260 260,252,204,164,51,27,11 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/2341249/A-Never-Reboot-Service-For-Linux?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/RkaLxVHUpYI/KDE-44-Released-Alongside-Website-Redesign Cryophallion writes "KDE 4.4.0 has finally been released, along with a redesign of the KDE.org website. New features include tabbed windows, improved desktop search and social desktop features. 'Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework. According to KDE's bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented.' A feature guide is also available."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1617217/KDE-44-Released-Alongside-Website-Redesign?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/1617217"></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1617217/KDE-44-Released-Alongside-Website-Redesign?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vOvO7sBSlhlaDjgUesH0DdltHf4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vOvO7sBSlhlaDjgUesH0DdltHf4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vOvO7sBSlhlaDjgUesH0DdltHf4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vOvO7sBSlhlaDjgUesH0DdltHf4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/RkaLxVHUpYI" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2010-02-09T17:29:00+00:00 kde new-and-shiny technology 318 318,313,253,189,45,20,15 http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1617217/KDE-44-Released-Alongside-Website-Redesign?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/4bpWhbdiO40/Microsoft-Phasing-Out-FAST-Search-For-Linux-Unix viralMeme writes "Microsoft plans to begin phasing out Unix and Linux platform support for its FAST enterprise search products, as of its next release. According to a Thursday blog post from Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Bj&#248;rn Olstad, 'We&rsquo;ve continued to sell, support, and update the Linux and UNIX versions of FAST ESP, and we&rsquo;ve designed the next wave of FAST products (scheduled for release in the first half of calendar year 2010) to include a cross-platform search core that has been extended to take advantage of web services and support mixed-platform deployment models. With our 2010 products scheduled for release in a few months, we&rsquo;ve just started to plan for our next wave of products. As a part of that planning process, we have decided that in order to deliver more innovation per release in the future, the 2010 products will be the last to include a search core that runs on Linux and UNIX. Many of our customers run FAST ESP on Linux and UNIX today, and we recognize that our future focus on Windows means change. To ease the transition, we&rsquo;re investing in interoperability between Windows and other operating systems, reaffirming our commitment to 10 years of support for our non-Windows products, and taking concrete steps to help customers plan for the future.'"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1452238/Microsoft-Phasing-Out-FAST-Search-For-Linux-Unix?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/09/1452238"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1452238/Microsoft-Phasing-Out-FAST-Search-For-Linux-Unix?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mGfPBjAM7Go1QSGXpECgaKUKoP8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mGfPBjAM7Go1QSGXpECgaKUKoP8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mGfPBjAM7Go1QSGXpECgaKUKoP8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/mGfPBjAM7Go1QSGXpECgaKUKoP8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/4bpWhbdiO40" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2010-02-09T16:04:00+00:00 microsoft going-away linux 141 141,137,109,88,30,23,13 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/09/1452238/Microsoft-Phasing-Out-FAST-Search-For-Linux-Unix?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/BCIenRnFMF4/Red-Hat-Exchange-Is-Dead darthcamaro writes "In 2007, Red Hat launched the Red Hat Exchange (RHX) &mdash; an appstore, if you will, of open source partner applications sold from a Red Hat website. Sounds like a good idea, right? While an appstore works well for Apple, turns out that an appstore for open source (from a Linux vendor) isn't such a good idea. 'When we came out with RHX we were hoping for more ambitious adoption but we've learned that selling third-party applications via a marketplace is challenging,' Mike Evans, Red Hat's vice president of corporate development said. 'When you've got marketplaces that offer buyers the choice of buying in the marketplace or directly from the vendor themselves, which is what our marketplace was, there isn't a real efficient marketplace.'"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/058253/Red-Hat-Exchange-Is-Dead?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/06/058253"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/058253/Red-Hat-Exchange-Is-Dead?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9-20oTiCgHqvqTS7CY5mwALOxJQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9-20oTiCgHqvqTS7CY5mwALOxJQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9-20oTiCgHqvqTS7CY5mwALOxJQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9-20oTiCgHqvqTS7CY5mwALOxJQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/BCIenRnFMF4" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-02-06T06:20:00+00:00 linuxbusiness milk-for-free linux 88 88,86,70,51,22,13,6 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/058253/Red-Hat-Exchange-Is-Dead?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/ekA-FbDzneA/Google-Docs-Replaces-OpenOffice-In-Ubuntu-Netbook-Edition uneuser writes "Digitizor reports that the Ubuntu developers have dropped OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE) 10.04 and replaced it with Google Docs. Documents in Ubuntu Netbook Edition will now be opened in Google Docs by default."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0113229/Google-Docs-Replaces-OpenOffice-In-Ubuntu-Netbook-Edition?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/06/0113229"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0113229/Google-Docs-Replaces-OpenOffice-In-Ubuntu-Netbook-Edition?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGRvqmNA2QWurYLJHCkaPQGLZmg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGRvqmNA2QWurYLJHCkaPQGLZmg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGRvqmNA2QWurYLJHCkaPQGLZmg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/TGRvqmNA2QWurYLJHCkaPQGLZmg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/ekA-FbDzneA" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-02-06T01:23:00+00:00 google hope-your-connection's-up linux 298 298,295,235,179,55,29,20 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/06/0113229/Google-Docs-Replaces-OpenOffice-In-Ubuntu-Netbook-Edition?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/7la-UjUv5Wk/Android-and-the-Linux-Kernel-Community An anonymous reader links to Greg Kroah-Hartman's explanation of a rift (hopefully mendable) in the development culture of Google's Linux-based Android OS and the Linux kernel itself. "As the Android kernel code is now gone from the Linux kernel, as of the 2.6.33 kernel release, I'm starting to get a lot of questions about what happened, and what to do next with regards to Android. So here's my opinion on the whole matter ..."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1932222/Android-and-the-Linux-Kernel-Community?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/03/1932222"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1932222/Android-and-the-Linux-Kernel-Community?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aC9-3rLDLxERMuWqynhIoc4l1e8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aC9-3rLDLxERMuWqynhIoc4l1e8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aC9-3rLDLxERMuWqynhIoc4l1e8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/aC9-3rLDLxERMuWqynhIoc4l1e8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/7la-UjUv5Wk" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-02-03T20:25:00+00:00 google cathedral-in-the-bazaar linux 353 353,342,258,221,72,46,32 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1932222/Android-and-the-Linux-Kernel-Community?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/pBoFW7Mfy60/ARM-Exec-Says-90-of-PC-Market-Could-Be-Netbooks Barence writes "ARM chief executive Warren East has claimed that netbooks could dominate the PC market, in an exclusive interview with PC Pro. 'Although netbooks are small today &ndash; maybe 10% of the PC market at most &ndash; we believe over the next several years that could completely change around and that could be 90% of the PC market,' he said. East also said ARM isn't pressuring Microsoft to include support for its processors in Windows, claiming progress in the Linux world is 'very, very impressive.' 'There's not really a huge amount of point in us knocking on Microsoft's door,' he said. 'It's really an operational decision for Microsoft to make. I don't think there's any major technical barriers.'"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1412210/ARM-Exec-Says-90-of-PC-Market-Could-Be-Netbooks?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/03/1412210"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1412210/ARM-Exec-Says-90-of-PC-Market-Could-Be-Netbooks?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YAQZI28_wHxvRepy_e-ztNlecxQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YAQZI28_wHxvRepy_e-ztNlecxQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YAQZI28_wHxvRepy_e-ztNlecxQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/YAQZI28_wHxvRepy_e-ztNlecxQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/pBoFW7Mfy60" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-02-03T14:33:00+00:00 linuxbusiness invested-interest linux 307 307,305,269,220,51,28,17 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/03/1412210/ARM-Exec-Says-90-of-PC-Market-Could-Be-Netbooks?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/JXJ_a0JQxxQ/Gaining-Root-Access-On-Linux-Based-Femtocells viralMeme writes "According to the Register, 'Security researchers have turned their attention to femtocells, and have discovered that gaining root on the tiny mobile base stations isn't as hard as one might hope.' One of the researchers said, 'After hours of sniffing traffic, changing IP address ranges, guessing passwords and investigating hardware pinouts, we had obtained root access on these Linux-based cellular-based devices, which piqued our curiosity [about] the security implications.' Whoever designed these devices should be sent back to computer school. An authentication device that can be bypassed is a contradiction in terms. Or, as some pen-pusher would put it in a report: an unantipicated security excursion.<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/02/1632203/Gaining-Root-Access-On-Linux-Based-Femtocells?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/02/1632203"></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/02/1632203/Gaining-Root-Access-On-Linux-Based-Femtocells?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/E92i1p-16EaZa2k7o5wfhVDwMko/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/E92i1p-16EaZa2k7o5wfhVDwMko/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/E92i1p-16EaZa2k7o5wfhVDwMko/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/E92i1p-16EaZa2k7o5wfhVDwMko/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/JXJ_a0JQxxQ" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2010-02-02T17:31:00+00:00 cellphones feel-free-to-listen-in mobile 102 102,95,79,73,31,16,8 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/02/02/1632203/Gaining-Root-Access-On-Linux-Based-Femtocells?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/W279tKeDXw8/How-Many-SUSE-Subscriptions-Can-You-Get-For-240M itwbennett writes "According to an SD Times article, Microsoft is almost through passing out the infamous subscription certificates for SUSE Enterprise Linux that it purchased for $240 million as part of its investment in Novell. According to the article, Microsoft says that 'a total of 475 customers have used an unspecified number of coupons.' Blogger Brian Proffitt calculates that 'if indeed just 475 customers have received these coupons, then Microsoft has essentially subsidized SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) deployments to an average tune of US$505,263.16 per customer.'"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/02/1510233/How-Many-SUSE-Subscriptions-Can-You-Get-For-240M?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/02/1510233"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/02/1510233/How-Many-SUSE-Subscriptions-Can-You-Get-For-240M?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T0UnmZtFzgppd0POWjkr6KXqbfU/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T0UnmZtFzgppd0POWjkr6KXqbfU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T0UnmZtFzgppd0POWjkr6KXqbfU/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/T0UnmZtFzgppd0POWjkr6KXqbfU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/W279tKeDXw8" height="1" width="1"/> Soulskill 2010-02-02T16:05:00+00:00 microsoft i-got-the-stuff-you-got-the-money? linux 121 121,115,93,72,28,19,12 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/02/1510233/How-Many-SUSE-Subscriptions-Can-You-Get-For-240M?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/KhZ2sZ92ncY/AMD-Publishes-Open-Source-ATI-Evergreen-Driver Several readers have written to tell us that AMD has published their code to support the Radeon HD 5000 "Evergreen" graphics cards on Linux in an open-source driver. Unfortunately the driver isn't quite as complete as some might hope. The current offering doesn't promise 2D (EXA) acceleration or 3D support. "The DDX driver supports mode-setting on the Evergreen/R800 series GPUs with VGA and DVI connectors while the DisplayPort connectivity is still not working right, according to AMD's Alex Deucher who had written most of this code. These new AMD graphics cards have been around since September while there was no open-source support at that time. In December just before Christmas there was Evergreen Shader documentation that was made publicly available and around that time it was confirmed via our forums that initial VGA mode-setting was working with Evergreen internally on unreleased code. Since then the digital connector support has been added in and this code has finally cleared AMD's legal review. The revised target was to publish this code by FOSDEM, which is this weekend so AMD did hit the target this time."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/01/1938258/AMD-Publishes-Open-Source-ATI-Evergreen-Driver?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/02/01/1938258"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/01/1938258/AMD-Publishes-Open-Source-ATI-Evergreen-Driver?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/F3cPiXNkI4FNU2vNZqJS1C016Jo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/F3cPiXNkI4FNU2vNZqJS1C016Jo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/F3cPiXNkI4FNU2vNZqJS1C016Jo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/F3cPiXNkI4FNU2vNZqJS1C016Jo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/KhZ2sZ92ncY" height="1" width="1"/> ScuttleMonkey 2010-02-01T23:28:00+00:00 amd still-watching-and-waiting linux 159 159,152,123,92,34,21,12 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/02/01/1938258/AMD-Publishes-Open-Source-ATI-Evergreen-Driver?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/DiwWYfncj1g/7-of-the-Best-Free-Linux-Calculators An anonymous reader writes "One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is a desktop calculator. These are often simple utilities that are perfectly adequate for basic use. They typically include trigonometric functions, logarithms, factorials, parentheses and a memory function. However, the calculators featured in this article are significantly more sophisticated with the ability to process difficult mathematical functions, to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, and much more. Occasionally, the calculator tool provided with an operating system did not engender any confidence. The classic example being the calculator shipped with Windows 3.1 which could not even reliably subtract two numbers. Rest assured, the calculators listed below are of precision quality."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/2355206/7-of-the-Best-Free-Linux-Calculators?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/30/2355206"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/2355206/7-of-the-Best-Free-Linux-Calculators?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kEoL8GSs5CNEiOpW_swq8713yvA/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kEoL8GSs5CNEiOpW_swq8713yvA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kEoL8GSs5CNEiOpW_swq8713yvA/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/kEoL8GSs5CNEiOpW_swq8713yvA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/DiwWYfncj1g" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-01-31T00:36:00+00:00 math open-in-tabs linux 289 289,285,232,162,48,26,18 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/2355206/7-of-the-Best-Free-Linux-Calculators?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/iFAtUYKJI9E/Video-Review-of-Hivisions-100-ARM-Based-Android-Laptop Charbax writes "The Android laptops are coming. Thanks to cheap ARM-powered laptops made in China, and the latest, most optimized Android software, we can soon buy usable $100 laptops in all the supermarkets. In this video, I test the web browsing speed on the new Rockchip rk2808 ARM9-based PWS700CA laptop by Shenzhen-based Hivision Co Ltd. Web browsing on AJAX-heavy websites is surprisingly snappy, and could only be even faster if ARM11, ARM Cortex A8 or A9 processors were used and if it was configured with slightly more than 128MB RAM. How soon will Google release the $100 Google laptop?"<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/0022239/Video-Review-of-Hivisions-100-ARM-Based-Android-Laptop?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/30/0022239"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/0022239/Video-Review-of-Hivisions-100-ARM-Based-Android-Laptop?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RLhrCFjDDpNY9ftebqiWMSgP4Is/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RLhrCFjDDpNY9ftebqiWMSgP4Is/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RLhrCFjDDpNY9ftebqiWMSgP4Is/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RLhrCFjDDpNY9ftebqiWMSgP4Is/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/iFAtUYKJI9E" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-01-30T01:34:00+00:00 portables toward-marginal-cost linux 219 219,218,188,164,47,23,10 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/30/0022239/Video-Review-of-Hivisions-100-ARM-Based-Android-Laptop?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/E1w4Z2cvGp0/MSI-Will-Launch-iPad-Alternative itwbennett writes "Underwhelmed by the iPad? Don't give up on tablets just yet, says blogger Peter Smith. MSI has a tablet coming in the second half of 2010 that measures up on price and size and addresses a lot of the iPad's most noted shortcomings. 'The iPad runs iPhone OS while the MSI runs Android,' writes Smith. 'That means the MSI will multitask of course, and Flash support in Android should be a given by launch time (though that isn't certain). It has a camera. It's running on an Nvidia Tegra2 chip which Ars Technica suggests puts it on par with the iPad's A4 as far as computing horsepower. And of course Android doesn't live in a walled garden.'" The post notes that the MSI device does not support multitouch in its built-in apps. Still, would an Android-powered iPad-alike tempt you? Update: 01/29 17:58 GMT by KD : Dave Altavilla suggests Hot Hardware's coverage of Asus's recently announced tablet, also based on the Tegra2 chip.<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1448208/MSI-Will-Launch-iPad-Alternative?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/29/1448208"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1448208/MSI-Will-Launch-iPad-Alternative?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SUbu-fW9r_QXOMPq_5Z4IoJqjBg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SUbu-fW9r_QXOMPq_5Z4IoJqjBg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SUbu-fW9r_QXOMPq_5Z4IoJqjBg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/SUbu-fW9r_QXOMPq_5Z4IoJqjBg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/E1w4Z2cvGp0" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-01-29T16:18:00+00:00 linux breaking-down-the-walls linux 756 756,748,612,508,72,36,19 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/29/1448208/MSI-Will-Launch-iPad-Alternative?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/HBLD1Q8G340/2-Displays-and-2-Workspaces-With-Linux-and-X Borov writes "I'm planning to buy a second monitor in near future and I was searching for ways to configure it under Linux. It seems there are two main ways: 1) to have one 'big' desktop, which means I have single workspace &mdash; changing virtual desktop switches both monitors or 2) to have separate X sessions for each display &mdash; which means I have separate workspaces, but I can't move applications between them. I need something in the middle &mdash; a separate workspace for each screen, so that I can have independent virtual desktops on each screen, but still have the ability to move applications between monitors (no need to strech one app across both of them). I've read that some tiling window managers can do this kind of thing, but I'd rather go with 'classical' window managers, like Openbox/Gnome/KDE or similar."<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/206240/2-Displays-and-2-Workspaces-With-Linux-and-X?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/28/206240"></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/206240/2-Displays-and-2-Workspaces-With-Linux-and-X?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FTfVBdRYJKNBI8tYlnlWHawPaKw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FTfVBdRYJKNBI8tYlnlWHawPaKw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FTfVBdRYJKNBI8tYlnlWHawPaKw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/FTfVBdRYJKNBI8tYlnlWHawPaKw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/HBLD1Q8G340" height="1" width="1"/> timothy 2010-01-28T20:15:00+00:00 displays anything-you-set-your-mind-to askslashdot 460 460,452,336,249,58,25,20 http://ask.slashdot.org/story/10/01/28/206240/2-Displays-and-2-Workspaces-With-Linux-and-X?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~3/ZlI9QlsmE_I/Ubuntu-Moves-To-Yahoo-For-Default-Firefox-Search An anonymous reader writes "Starting in Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx release, Firefox's default search engine will be switched from Google to Yahoo. The switch was made after Canonical 'negotiated a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo.' Google will still be available as a choice. Since Yahoo search is now powered by Microsoft's Bing, this would seem to mean that Microsoft will be paying people for using Ubuntu."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/27/0118244/Ubuntu-Moves-To-Yahoo-For-Default-Firefox-Search?from=rss"><img src="http://linux.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=10/01/27/0118244"></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/27/0118244/Ubuntu-Moves-To-Yahoo-For-Default-Firefox-Search?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jTB6tcsD3-R6gi1gHgraj5HQkB0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jTB6tcsD3-R6gi1gHgraj5HQkB0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jTB6tcsD3-R6gi1gHgraj5HQkB0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/jTB6tcsD3-R6gi1gHgraj5HQkB0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotLinux/~4/ZlI9QlsmE_I" height="1" width="1"/> kdawson 2010-01-27T13:16:00+00:00 yahoo can-you-say-bing linux 370 370,366,286,225,39,20,11 http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/01/27/0118244/Ubuntu-Moves-To-Yahoo-For-Default-Firefox-Search?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://linux.slashdot.org/search.pl