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Submission + - Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out (ecogeek.org)

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hankmt
hankmt writes: "About a week ago Wal-Mart began selling a $200 linux machine running on a 1.5 ghz Via C7 processor and 512 megs of RAM. While the specs are useless for vista, it works blazingly fast on Ubuntu with the Enlightenment Window Manager. The machine is now officially sold out of their online warehouses, and the product sales page at WalMart.com is full of glowing reviews from new and old linux users alike."
KDE

Submission + - KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released (kde.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: August 2, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications. Almost two months after the foundations of KDE 4 have been laid with the first alpha, KDE enters the stage of a full freeze of the library interface. From now on, the applications will focus on integrating the new technology refined during the last months, and the library developers will try to fix all bugs found during this process. No new applications will enter the official KDE modules and usability and accessibility work is of course an ongoing process. In the following weeks KDE developers will be able to add features to their applications until the next beta is released and the application features will be frozen as well.
The Internet

Submission + - Pirate Bay earns 20,000 Euros a day (rixstep.com) 2

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An anonymous reader writes: controverisal pro-piracy website the piratebay likes to portray itself as an innocent hobby site that provides a free index without censorship, but recent facts show that the site is earning up to 20,000 Euros per day from its advertising. Taking in money on this scale puts a different slant on the motives behind the Swedish filesharing site, and could open up the runners of the site to prosecution for profiting from copyright infringement.
Software

Submission + - Top 5 Linux Myths Dispeled (osweekly.com)

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slashy
slashy writes: "OSWeekly.com publishes a list of Top 5 most common myths and dispels them once and for all. Matt Hartley comments, "Ah, this is one of my favorites. It seems that Linux users have long since been seen as cheap, despite the fact that so many of them in the States earn up to six figures. First, define cheap? Are we cheap because we choose not to buy brand new everything with every release of our selected OS? It certainly shines some light on why hardware manufactures have been less than excited to provide better driver support, doesn't it?"

Comment Re:Web sites are becoming bloated (Score 1) 653

by WoggerRotters (#19172867) Attached to: Firefox Going the Big and Bloated IE Way?

On Linux, I spill over into virtual memory all the time. Linux also seems to be much worse at switching data in and out of virtual memory. I have no idea what's causing this, but I've definitely noticed it.
That would be because Linux is written to use your RAM as to the max. It will keep as much in your RAM as possible. Which is sort of good, considering you probably bought it to use it :-).
Windows

Submission + - Seagate FreeAgent Desktop 320GB Review

Submitted by mrneutron2004
mrneutron2004 writes: Normally selling at a manufacturers retail price of $169, we ran across it in this week's OfficeMax circular with a $70 instant rebate. A $99 price tag made this device all the more appealing, especially considering it's a Seagate product with a 5 year limited warranty. http://www.fastsilicon.com/storage-reviews/seagate -freeagent-desktop-320gb-review.html?Itemid=27

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