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E17, Slimmed Down For Cell Phones 166

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 16, 2008 @05:19PM from the durned-amazing-looking dept.

twitter writes "Want to run Enlightenment on your cell phone? The Rasterman's recent efforts bring E17 to Open Moko FreeRunner and Treo 650: 'According to the Rasterman, when used with his updated illume stack and new Elementary widget set, E17 can now run in just 32MB of RAM, on an ARM9 processor clocked at 317MHz. To prove it, he is distributing a Linux kernel and E17/Illume/Elementary stack for Palm's Treo650. The stack can be launched from PalmOS without touching the device's flash storage, he says.' While Microsoft fumbles with limited 'instant on,' GNU/Linux rules the embedded world and that's the only thing going in the IT market right now."

Comment Re:Language Compatibility vs. Class Libraries (Score 1) 271

by vdboor on Thursday June 19, 2008 @04:22PM (#23863771) Attached to: IcedTea's OpenJDK Passes Java Test Compatibility Kit

But Java the *language* is great. I wish that someone would create a non-bloat version of the Java class libraries.

Someone else already did this as well. :-)

Gentoo On Server Considered Harmful 372

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 28, 2007 @11:24PM from the not-a-desktop dept.

Siker writes in to point out his blog post — Why Gentoo Shouldn't Be On Your Server — which seems to have stirred up a lot of discussion, including a thread on the Gentoo forums. From the post: "I firmly believe in updating server software only when you need to. If you don't need new features, and things are working, why change anything? If you update anything you will undoubtedly need to update configuration files. You will need to fix things that break in the upgrade process... This is hard with Gentoo. Gentoo wants you to change a lot of stuff. It wants to be bleeding edge."

Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry 1347

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 19, 2006 @09:24AM from the you-all-know-them dept.

McSnarf writes "It's not Windows. It's not distro wars. Sometimes it's just the arrogant attitude that keeps people from switching from Windows. 'As I spoke to newbies, one Windows user who wanted to learn about Linux shared the encouraging and constructive note (not) he received from one of the project members. The responding note read: "Hi jackass, RTFM and stop wasting our time trying to help you children learn.""

KOffice 1.5 Released 296

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday April 11, 2006 @05:02PM from the open-document-support dept.

ingwa writes to tell us that the KOffice team has released version 1.5 which offers, among other things, default OpenDocument file format, new project planning tool KPlato, professional color support and adjustment layers in Krita and the long awaited Kexi 1.0. From the announcement: "KOffice was the first office suite that announced support for OpenDocument and now the second to announce it as the default file format after OpenOffice.org. This makes KOffice a member of a very select group and will lead to new deployment opportunities. Great care has been taken to ensure interoperability with other office software that also use OpenDocument."

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