"There are no longer any Linux netbooks for sale at physical retail stores where I live (USA). No, it's not that they're out of stock frequently (as some Windows models are); they are no longer kept in stock.

Target is the only retailer that even lists Linux models on their website; they used to sell the 7" Eee PC in stores. Now they sell Windows models in-store & advertise them, as do all the other retail stores that sell computers."

The conspiracy theory loving part of me wonders if that was actually sales driven, or driven on the golf course. :-\

You can set up a KDE4.2 desktop so that it is virually indistinguishable fron a KDE3 one.

I've been keeping Mandriva cooker current, release of 2001 spring is sometime this month...

Works very nice, now.

There is no longer any urgent need to install KDE3x as with 2009.0.

IIRC the VA uses a pretty robust system, and it is FOSS (public domain).

Is there some paricular reason it cannot (or isn't) certified, and or become the reference system?

I believe a better solution to the fat finger problem could be:

A:don't use touchscreens.
B:make the touchscreen bigger, to suit the customer, rather than fashion.

Only I'm not 100% sure that parent post was being sarcastic...

That and a huge bonus at the end for all (and probably nicer digs/other bennies would be implied of course.

Perhaps do up a good demo and sell it as the next version of the product?

Build a buisiness case, and sell it, set it up as a small more or less independant programming group, with clear goals etc.
(And have upper management sign off on it, in writing)

Occasionally even large companies demonstrate signs of harboring intelligent life.

(I realise YMMV seriously)

"[T]he mass of gluons is zero and the mass of quarks is only five per cent. Where, therefore, is the missing 95 per cent? The answer, according to the study published in the US journal Science on Thursday, comes from the energy from the movements and interactions of quarks and gluons. "

To repeat what A.C. asked...

This is too obvious to be correct, but perhaps that explains "dark matter"???

(Or is this missing 95% already accounted for somewhere?)

I personally understand AMDs purchase of ATI, it mostly suffered from really bad timing, more or less coinciding with the release of the Barcelona and a severe money crunch.

Long term, the integration of AMD & ATI should prove to generate very interesting products, on both ends of the power/performance spectrum.

If they survive.

You do realize this article has ~absolutely nothing to do with gaming, or even normal users, right?

The systems discussed using CUDA or GPGPU will probably spend ~100% of their lives running flat out, doing simulations or such.

Visualize a Beowulf Cluster of these. Really.

by Orion Blastar (457579) on Saturday November 08, @06:42PM (#25690583) Homepage
"In consumer electronic stores there are $350 Laptops (after rebate) with Intel Graphic chips and 2G of RAM a 120G HD. that run Vista and cost less than a Netbook.

The $350 Laptop can easily be reformatted to run XP, Linux, AROS, or whatever."

And they absolutely scream running Linus.
(At least compared to a Netbook)

Having said that, I spied a neat little netbook at Target the other night, I wanted to take it home, soooo cuuuuute...
And only $299. Think it was the EEE, ran Linux.