September 10, 2008
by sjvn01
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I’m ticked off. Lenovo, after years of dancing around the question of would they or wouldn’t they, offer a ThinkPad with pre-installed Linux finally offered one, and, less than a year later, Lenovo has decided to take its Linux-powered ThinkPads … Continue reading
September 9, 2008
by sjvn01
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Desktop Linux reported that Lenovo seems to have quietly exited the desktop Linux business. Unfortunately for desktop Linux users, that news has turned out to be correct. Lenovo, in a note to Practical Technology, confirmed that it was exiting the … Continue reading
September 9, 2008
by sjvn01
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It should have been a great day on the London Stock Exchange. The U.S. government had announced on the Sunday before that it was coming to the rescue of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Trading would have been extremely brisk, … Continue reading
September 8, 2008
by sjvn01
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I started using the Internet in the 1970s. It didn’t look anything like it does today, and our search tools were, well, awful. Still compared to what we started with, they were great. Before I ever turned my hand to … Continue reading
September 5, 2008
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It’s not easy going from being number one of a small company, MySQL, even one worth a cool billion, to being one of many number twos in an even bigger company, Sun. Many former CEOs in that position quickly quit … Continue reading
September 4, 2008
by sjvn01
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I know some of you really, really wanted Dell’s first mini-notebook to have a price-tag of $299 and you’re down because the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 starts at $349 with Ubuntu Linux or $399 with Windows XP. Well, just wait, … Continue reading