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A job listing found today at Volt is raising eyebrows in both the Redmond area and the open-source Linux world. Volt is a major recruitment resource for Microsoft, with the…

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Dell to Offer Linux Based Systems

5:46 pm PDT • March 29, 2007

Dell announced today that it would begin offering Linux on its systems. “Dell has heard you. Our first step in this effort is offering Linux preinstalled on select desktop and…

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Linux Now Running On Your 5.5g iPod

10:30 am PST • March 8, 2007

Eureka! iPodLinux has been successfully installed on a 5.5g iPod (Winpods and Macpods, 30 and 80 gig units). The 80GB iPods initially had problems and needed a ‘dirty hack’ because…

Take a look at this screengrab from an AMD machine running Linux. What are we seeing? Wobbly, transparent windows, hot UI effects, an amazing 3D task switcher, and enough eye-candy…

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Cisco iPhone In Violation Of GPL

10:13 am PST • January 22, 2007

A few days ago, I noticed some user on Digg pointing out that Cisco shouldn’t be suing Apple when Cisco is already violating terms of the GNU/GPL by using open…

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New RIZR Music Phone from Moto

3:37 pm PST • January 8, 2007

Move over RAZR, not there’s something slidier. The Z6 MOTORIZR is a music-centric phone with microSD, stereo Bluetooth and a 2.2-megapixel picture taker in a design quite similar to the…

CIO Magazine is apparently going through their assignment backlog and decided to put together a hefty tome on the differences between Windows, Linux, and OS X. Hmmmm… With gems like…

We all knew it was a matter of time before that one guy got his mitts on a PS3 and spent all afternoon trying to get Linux on it. Well…

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FIC Linux Cellphone

9:23 am PST • November 7, 2006

The linux cellphone is creeping ever closer. FIC is planning on building a touchscreen GSM cellie with an “iPod-quality” MP3 player and files sharing. It will use all open source…

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Motorola Prepping Linux-based RAZR Smartphone?

12:55 pm PST • October 31, 2006

We got word of these presentation photos of what appears to be Motorola’s new RAZR PDA. That’s right, a smartphone in the RAZR form factor, because the world needs another…

OK, we’re taking this with a grain of salt, but just a little tiny one. Our little birdie, who is in the know on smartphone OSes, sent us a tip…

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The Linutop: A Linux Mac Mini

9:03 am PDT • October 25, 2006

Coming soon: a Mac Mini-ish Linux computer made for surfing, browsing, and quick internet usage. Pretty much a substitute for older, larger machines at libraries, hotels, hospitals and internet cafes…

This isn’t strictly gadget news, but it’s big nonetheless. Larry Ellison, holder of the only Silicon Valley ego larger than Mr. Jobs at Apple, is set to drop Oracle’s Linux…

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Sony Playstation 3 Gets FireFox

6:06 am PDT • October 18, 2006

Terra Soft recently announced that they have developed Yellow Dog Linux v.50, a next generation linux operating system that will support the Playstation 3. Owen Stampflee, Lead Software Engineer of…

Nothing as sophisticated or polished as TiVo or Windows Media Center, this Neuros OSD Linux Media Recorder has users jumping in coding functionality, which eventually gets shared all other users.…

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Trolltech Linux Phone For Application Developers

9:35 am PDT • September 13, 2006

Cell phone application developers have a new tool for developing future products. Trolltech has launched their Qtopia Greenphone, an open Linux mobile device that allows you to write and install…

The Children's Machine arrives

12:41 pm PDT • August 25, 2006

One of my favourite technology projects has just announced its new name. The hundred dollar laptop spearheaded by Nicholas Negroponte formerly called the OLPC is now called the CM1, or…

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TROLLTECH Announces Greenphone

5:48 am PDT • August 16, 2006

TROLLTECH, the makers of Qt and Qtopia, unveiled Greenphone Monday night in San Francisco. Greenphone provides the source code API calls to all of the phone’s basic operations, such as…