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Juhapekka Tovanen
Logo art is by
Larry Ewing
More of Larry's logos are at
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Mar 13, 2006
Leaked memo from Intel shows Major Linux Effort
Again, we want to understand how Intel can champion a Linux PC in China where it expects to sell hundreds of millions of units, but either can't or won't champion one here.
The machine is not a stripped-down bargain unit, according to project leaders in Beijing. The first farmer-oriented PC released today is a really user-friendly PC, not a simplified PC, said Ma Lin, director of BMSTC.
Now, ask any mainstream reporter from ZDnet, C/Net, ComputerWorld, Forbes.com, USA Today and the New York Times about Linux computers. They will say in unison that a user-friendly Linux PC does not exist. Linux is hard, doesn't have the drivers to work with standard Intel-type hardware, much less the newer hardware from China. No one wants it, they want Windows!
On the Proposed Final Judgment in United States v. Microsoft
"Yet the Proposed Final Judgment allows many exclusionary practices to continue, and does not take any direct measures to reduce the Applications Barrier to Entry faced by new entrants to the market."
"IBM spends $5 billion a year on R&D. And we're putting a billion dollars behind Linux. But even all that is nothing compared to what the Linux community will generate spontaneously."
"Like the Internet, Linux is the next open, freely accessible standard around which the IT and developer world is rallying. Once the standard is agreed upon, innovation and progress accelerate. Linux is the agreement."
Computing for the blind:
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GNU/Linux, now !
- Insert the CD
- Boot up your PC
- Wait a few seconds (well, a few minutes)
- Select a speech synthesizer
- That's all, GNU/Linux is yours!
General Help with GNU/Linux:
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Mirror sites of the Linux Documentation Project
Non-English mirrors of The Linux Documentation Project
Just a few of the documents available at the LDP:
Software:
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Software: Getting it:
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Software: Using it:
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The more I use Fvwm, the less patience I have with the limitations of newer, supposedly better Window Managers.
Hardware
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Miscellaneous:
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Free Computers!
[Anchorage, AK, USA]Computers For Families with Children This is a real offer -- designed to get computers in the hands of families with children. While these computers are not the latest and greatest -- they will supply children a good basic working machine that will aid in homework and open their horizons and give the entire family an opening into the digital age. The only restriction is that these computers must go to families with at least one child under the age of 18 years and living at home and have no other way to obtain one.
"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."
FreeBSD links:
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"...we open-source programmers do not do these things for a 5-minute spot on CNN, we do these things because they are cool, and interesting, and make the world a better place for everyone."
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