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Comment Another List for Laptop, PDAs and Mobile Phones (Score 4, Informative) 229

by wehe (#28084849) Attached to: Where To Buy A Machine With Linux Pre-Installed
There is also a comprehensive and international list of vendors which provide laptops, notebooks, PDAs and mobile phones with Linux pre-installed. This list is accompanied by a survey of laptop and notebook manufacturers which provide Linux pre-installed, a survey of mobile phones with Linux pre-installed and an overview of media players with Linux pre-installed (these manufacturers are marked with an asterisk).
Cellphones

Submission + - First Open Source Smartphone Discontinued (bernerzeitung.ch) 1

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TuxMobil
TuxMobil writes: "Bad news for freerunner fans, development of the first Open Source smartphone will be discontinued. OpenMoko executive director Sean Moss-Pulz told at OpenExpo in Bern (Switzerland) that the number of staffs will be reduced to be able to stay in business. OpenMoko had high intentions: the offspring from Taiwanese electronic manufacturer First International Computer (FIC) wanted to produce an Open Source smartphone. Not only with Open Source software pre-installed, but with free drivers and open specifications of the hardware components. This would give programmers as well as users complete freedom. Up to now the manufacturer has produced two models, the first has been sold 3,000 times and the second one has been bought 10,000 times. Both models were targeted primarily to developers. From the beginning OpenMoko had to fight with different problems. The smartphones came into market with a huge delay. Some series came with construction defects. Also changes in the team slowed down the development. Software development for the current smartphone will be continued but with less resources Moss-Pultz told. He still hopes the community will support the Freerunner: "Buy the Freerunner, help to correct bugs and write new programms". http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/20/1551200 http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/25/1751228 http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/16/0037221 http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/24/1739200"
Data Storage

Submission + - Free DIY Hard Disk Drive Repair and Data Recovery (prweb.com)

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wehe
wehe writes: "Hard disk drive repair and data recovery usually requires special and expensive equipment, as well as expert knowledge. But for those who don't have the time, effort or money to get professional support, there is Repair4HardDisk, a new Web directory of hard disk drive-related sites, featuring free do-it-yourself repair and recovery guides for hard disk drives (HDDs) from a number of different manufacturers."
Hardware Hacking

Submission + - Free Laptop Repair and Upgrading Service (repair4laptop.org)

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wehe
wehe writes: "Repair4Laptop is now offering notebook computer users a valuable service free of charge. Send them a problem notebook computer and they will fix it. Their comprehensive online collection of guides for laptop repair, upgrades, cleaning and modding already constitutes a big repository of notebook computer repair information. But they want to make their collection even bigger and compile additional information to create even more free laptop repair guides covering different computer makers, models, or different repair techniques. Do-it-yourself laptop and notebook repair can be helpful, especially if professional service is expensive or too time consuming. In other cases, people might not want to reveal precious personal data on the hard disk, or they do hardware hacking just for fun."
Portables

Submission + - TuxMobil Surpasses 8,000 Linux Installation Guides (tuxmobil.org)

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wehe
wehe writes: "TuxMobil, the largest current web directory of Linux and mobile hardware, has surpassed the milestone of 8,000 different installation guides in one place to help users install Linux on their laptop and notebook computers. Because of the growing interest in mobile Linux, the quantity of installation guides has increased rapidly during the past year — more than any other year since TuxMobil's inception in 1997. The installation guides are ordered by manufacturer, distribution and language, and these guides offer hands-on information for almost any laptop model ever produced. BTW: TuxMobil expects to reach its 10,000th guide in 2009."

Comment DIY Data Recovery for Broken HDDs (Score 4, Informative) 205

by wehe (#25731327) Attached to: The Sounds of Failing Hard Drives
Just in case you don't want or don't need to order data recovery from a professional service, which is often expensive and takes time, here are some do-it-yourself guides for data recovery from broken hard disk drives. Of course you will not try these approaches if your data are really precious. But it you can afford to loose the data or you don't want to reveal them to others, these guides are worth a try to get the data resurrected.

Comment Survey of Solaris Installation Guides for Laptops (Score 2, Informative) 223

by wehe (#25695681) Attached to: OpenSolaris 2008.11 – Year of the Laptop?
As far as I can see Opensolaris as well as Solaris is not widely used on portable computers yet. TuxMobil provides a Survey of Solaris, OpenSolaris & NexentaOS Installation Guides for Laptops and Notebooks. The survey contains links to around 70 installation guides. The overall number of installation guides for Unix operating systems listed at TuxMobil is almost 8,000.
The Internet

The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' 452

Posted by CmdrTaco from the because-he-said-so dept.
An anonymous reader writes "API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne, writes today that the Internet was 'built wrong,' and continues to be accepted as an inferior system, due to a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better. 'We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet. We know too that near-universal deployment of technologies with inadequate security and trust models, like SMTP, can mean millions if not billions lost to electronic crime, defensive measures, and reduced productivity,' says Payne, who calls for a 'content-centric approach to networking.' Payne doesn't mention, however, that his own system, Twitter, was built wrong and is consistently down."
Government

Linux-Based E-Voting In Brazil 302

Posted by kdawson from the watch-and-learn-grasshopper dept.
John Sokol writes "I just heard from a good friend and Linux kernel hacker in Brazil that they have just finished their municipal election with 128 million people using Linux to vote. They voted nationwide for something like 5,000 city mayors. Voting is mandatory in Brazil. The embedded computer they are using once ran VirtuOS (a variant of MS-DOS); it now has its own locally developed, Linux-based distro. These are much nicer, smaller, and cheaper than the systems being deployed here in the US. Here is a Java-required site with a simulated Brazilian voting system. It's very cool; they even show you a picture of the candidate you voted for."

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