Cast Of Cranks:
Threethirty
Monsterb
Azimuth
Peter64
Xoke & Mrs. Xoke
Dann
Special Guest: Dave “Sexy” Yates of LottaLinuxLinks
Stories:
#Something We all knew without having to be told . The Economist Suggests Linux For Netbooks
http://mobile.slashdot.org/mobile/08/12/13/2256213.shtml
“In its roundup of how to choose a netbook, The Economist suggests that users ‘avoid the temptation’ to go for a Windows-based netbook, and in particular to treat them as mini laptops on which you’ll install a range of apps. In their view, by the time you add the specs needed to run Windows and Windows apps effectively, you might as well have just bought a smallish laptop. Instead, they suggest the sweet spot is ultra-lite, Linux-based netbooks, with a focus on pre-installed software that caters to common tasks,
#Acer says Windows netbook sales are crushing the Linux installs. “Our Windows XP netbooks are outselling Linux machines by more than 9 to 1,” Henry Lee senior product manager - retail channel manager, Acer Computer Australia, told iTWire.
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22362/53/
#13 Free Linux E-Books from Lulu.com: (Might be good for Free Linux Help Line)
Moving From Windows to Linux (7 pages)
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_64/4632000/4632020/1/print/Linux.pdf
MANUALINUX, the Linux Manual (153 pages)
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_64/4400000/4400035/1/print/manualinuxen.pdf
Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide (249 pages)
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_18/326000/326226/1/print/intro-linux.pdf
Mandriva Linux 2007 for Home Users (50 pages)
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_44/603000/603439/4/print/603439.pdf
Exploring Open Source Alternatives (for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University) (58 pages)
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_1/120000/120797/1/print/Exploring_Open_Source_Alternatives_for_School_of_ECE.pdf
An Open Letter To A Digital World (7 pages)
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_1/93000/93646/1/print/tideturning.pdf
Technical Challenges (67 pages)
Focused on open source software and graphic design.
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_63/1621000/1621993/2/print/tech-challenge-prepress.pdf
Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 3 (436 pages)
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_64/4633000/4633456/3/print/OOo3GettingStarted.pdf
Inkscape (212 pages)
http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_64/4617000/4617381/1/print/inkscape.pdf
#IT Class fails exam for submitting work in .doc format (The teacher told them to)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/08/cotelands_word/
29 students of a computing class at a school in Lincolnshire have all failed to gain their diploma because their teacher told them to save their coursework in Microsoft Word format, which is not accepted by the exam board.
#Kinda of a follow up to the EEE Top:
Asus To Release 20 & 22-inch EEE Top Touchscreen PCs in 2009
Asus has finally released its EEE Top all-in-one computer in the UK and has already announced bigger 22-inch touchscreen monitors for next year as the Taiwanese company outsources production to rival Quanta. According to Digitimes, Asus will be releasing 20-inch and 22-inch EEE Top before July 2009 with an estimated five millions being shipped by 2010. The release of these new models, which will almost certainly bring multi-touch navigation, will coincide with the build up to the launch of Microsoft Windows 7 towards the end of 2009. The current EEE Top, the ETP1602, however will still run on Windows XP, will use an Atom N270 processor, 1GB memory and a 160GB hard disk drive. Other notable features include a 1.3-megapixel camera and two 4w speakers.
I know the EEE Tops run Windows, but the hardware is very close to eeepc, except for the touchscreen.
http://www.itproportal.com/articles/2008/11/21/asus-release-22-inch-eee-top-touchscreen-pcs-2009/
No word on the price of the 20 & 22″ models. But CEO Jerry Shen of Asustek said 15.4″ model retails for $565 US
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20081120PD217.html
Peter cant wait till they load Splashtop on these Bad Boys
#OpenSuse 11.1 has been released. Features improvements to Yast and a less freedom hating EULA.
Ships with:
* Gnome 2.24.1
* KDE 4.1.3
* Linux 2.6.27.7
* Glibc 2.9
* Python 2.6
* Perl 5.10
* Mono 2.0
* OpenOffice.org 3.0
http://news.opensuse.org/2008/12/18/opensuse-111-released/
#Adobe has moved their AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) product out of beta and released it for Linux. AIR is a platform for building rich internet applications using Flash, Ajax, HTML, and Flex.
http://blogs.adobe.com/air/2008/12/adobe_air_15_now_available_for.html
#Sun has released Virtualbox 2.1, among the new features are experimental support for OpenGL hardware acceleration inside the guest OS, Core i7 processor support, and 64 bit guest OS running on a 32 bit host.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjkzOA
#Lenovo to release ThinkPad laptop with 2 LCD screens
December 19, 2008 (Computerworld) Lenovo Group Ltd. today announced the release of a ThinkPad laptop that takes the “desktop replacement” category of notebook PCs to a new level.
The ThinkPad W700ds appears to be the first laptop ever to sport two LCD screens — a 17-in. primary and a 10.6-in. secondary screen.
The souped-up “mobile workstation,” as Lenovo calls it, also comes with customers’ choice of quad-core Intel Core 2 processors and Nvidia Quadro mobile graphics CPU with as many as 128 cores. It also comes with as much as 8GB of DDR3 memory and a pair of hard drive/solid-state drive bays for up to 960GB of storage.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9124101&intsrc=hm_list