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$100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available 464

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @03:25PM from the not-to-be-confused-with-wal-mart dept.

nerdyH sends us to LinuxDevices for a description of a tiny Linux device called the Marvell SheevaPlug. "A $100 Linux wall wart could do to servers what netbooks did to notebooks. With the Marvell SheevaPlug, you get a completely open (hardware and software) Linux server resembling a typical wall-wart power adapter, but running Linux on a 1.2GHz CPU, with 512MB of RAM, and 512MB of Flash. I/O includes USB 2.0, gigabit Ethernet, while expansion is provided via an SDIO slot. The power draw is a nightlight-like 5 Watts. Marvell says it plans to give Linux developers everything they need to deliver 'disruptive' services on the device." The article links four products built on the SheevaPlug, none of them shipping quite yet. The development kit is available from Marvell.

1 of 3 Dell Inspiron Mini Netbooks Sold With Linux 230

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @12:49PM from the for-their-patients-who-chew-gum dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "According to an article in Laptop Magazine on-line, one-third of Dell Inspiron Mini 9s netbooks are sold with the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Dell senior product manager John New attributed the sales volume to the lower price point of the Ubuntu Linux machines. And the return rate of the Ubuntu Linux machines is approximately equal to that of comparable netbooks sold with Microsoft Windows XP. Dell spokesperson Jay Pinkert attriutes the low return rate to Dell's good communications with its customers, saying 'We have done a very good job explaining to folks what Linux is.'"

Submission + - AISD Teacher Throws Fit Over Student's Linux CD (austinist.com) 1

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VSpike

on Friday December 19, 2008 @06:58AM

VSpike writes: "The Austinist reports on a classic misunderstanding reminiscent of the City of Tuttle vs. CentOS. A teacher sees a student showing off his HeliOS system and confiscates all the disks. She reprimands the student for distributing illegal software and then fires off a threatening email to the person who provided the software to the student, stating "No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful.""

CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident 149

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 16, 2008 @08:07PM from the training-exercise-was-too-trite dept.

sash writes "From the fresh press release: 'Investigations at CERN following a large helium leak into sector 3-4 of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel have confirmed that cause of the incident was a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator's magnets. This resulted in mechanical damage and release of helium from the magnet cold mass into the tunnel. Proper safety procedures were in force, the safety systems performed as expected, and no one was put at risk. Sufficient spare components are in hand to ensure that the LHC is able to restart in 2009, and measures to prevent a similar incident in the future are being put in place.'"

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