“Being the largest OEM of PCs on the planet and pushing GNU/Linux — albeit a distro shrouded in non-free layers — HP can put the last nail in the coffin of M$’s monopoly,” predicted blogger Robert Pogson. “Their product will not only be competitive with that other OS, but iOS/MacOS and Android/Linux as well.”
Category: Linux/Unix
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ShmooCon 2011: USB Autorun attacks against Linux
Check out this great presentation from ShmooCon 2011
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ATO announces AUSkey support for GNU/Linux users
The Australian Taxation Office has announced that is now providing support for GNU/Linux users through a new release of the AUSkey authentication software.
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Gartner forecasts Android to overtake RIM’s BlackBerry this year
The influential business IT market research and analysis firm, Gartner, published a report today about mobile cell phone sales, predicting Ontario’s Research In Motion (RIM), the maker of the popular enterprise centric smartphone, would lose its spot as the second largest phone maker this year.
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Motorola Droid 2 R2-D2 Edition Revealed
Earlier this week Motorola announced the successor to their popular Android smartphone, the Droid, with the Droid 2, which features the latest Android update, version 2.2.
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Dell expands Ubuntu Linux desktop offerings
The latest panic in desktop-Linux-land was that Dell would no longer be selling Ubuntu pre-installed on laptops and netbooks. Alas, for those who love drama, it wasn’t true. In fact, Dell is expanding its Ubuntu desktop offerings.
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Get This Damned Ubuntu Out Of Dell’s Internets!
It’s as if a million penguins cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. Dell has dropped Ubuntu-loaded machines from their online store – a head-scratching play, considering their original declaration that Ubuntu is safer than Windows.
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Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an Android App