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New Spark open tablet, complete with Linux & KDE pre-installed

Posted on 06/02/2012 by woodsy

PC World reports that KDE developer Aaron Seigo revealed over the weekend that a 7-inch Linux tablet named “Spark” will soon be available with KDE Plasma Active tablet interface as its default user interface. It will be priced at €200 … Continue reading →

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Try out Ubuntu using your browser!

Posted on 31/01/2012 by woodsy

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has developed a web page for testing the distro, according to Le Monde Informatique. Written entirely in HTML, this page allows potential Ubuntu users to discover and work with the Unity interface, … Continue reading →

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Wot? No games for Linux? Not true!

Posted on 25/01/2012 by woodsy

One of the accusations erroneously levelled against Linux is that there is a paucity of games for the platform. Well, the splendid little sampler video below courtesy of ChemBroTronNo1 may just help to dispel that illusion. Hat tip: Ubuntu Vibes

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Spain: Extremadura to migrate 40,000 public sector desktops to Debian

Posted on 23/01/2012 by woodsy

Spain’s Publico recently reported (Spanish) that the autonomous regional government of Extremadura is planning to move all 40,000 of its desktops to Debian Linux. In taking this step, Extremadura would be the leading Spanish public sector organisation for the use … Continue reading →

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Linux Desura game client released as open source Desurium

Posted on 22/01/2012 by woodsy

Ubuntu Vibes reports that the Desura game client has been open sourced. Progress on work to release the client as open source was slow as lead developer ‘lodle’ was taking a break. However, all the necessary work has now been … Continue reading →

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Ben NanoNote – small is beautiful

Posted on 17/01/2012 by woodsy

Courtesy of OMG Ubuntu and OpenSure, news reaches the lab of the Ben NanoNote, the world’s smallest Linux laptop. From manufacturers Qi Hardware, we learn that the NanoNote “is an ultra small form factor computing device. The device sports a … Continue reading →

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Bristol Wireless on Techradar

Posted on 01/01/2012 by woodsy

Regular readers will remember that we had a visit from journalist Jonathan Edwards (news passim) which ultimately resulted in Bristol Wireless being the subject of a four-page feature in the Christmas 2011 edition (issue 158) of Linux Format (news passim). … Continue reading →

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Public sector open source quote of the week: “EU laptops should have LibreOffice or OpenOffice”

Posted on 22/12/2011 by woodsy

But who said it? According to Joinup, it was Christian Ude, the Mayor of Munich, whose local authority is a European leader in the deployment of open source by the public sector in general and local authorities in particular. It … Continue reading →

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Portugal: schools advised not to renew proprietary software licences

Posted on 21/12/2011 by woodsy

In what could be interpreted move to increase the amount of open source software used in academia (or just public sector miserliness. Ed.), Portugal’s Ministry of Education has advised the country’s schools not to renew their licences for proprietary operating … Continue reading →

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Lab report, Friday December 16th

Posted on 16/12/2011 by woodsy

It’s been an interesting day in the lab. Your correspondent arrived early in the lab and found Rich and Acesabe getting ready to out on a cabling job, running Cat6 round a new office for a client. After a while … Continue reading →

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