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No emulation software for Dell's Linux machines

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Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes "Dell will not include open-source software such as Wine, which lets users run Windows programs on Linux, with the PCs it plans to bundle with Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and its commercial sponsor Canonical, told eWeek (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2125848,00.a sp). He is quoted in the article as saying the reason for this is that he does "not want to position Ubuntu and Linux as a cheap alternative to Windows." While Linux is an alternative to Windows, it is not cheap Windows, he says, adding that Linux has its own strengths, and users should want it because of those strengths and not because it's a cheap copy of Windows."
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Are electronic speeding tickets going to far?

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes "No one likes to get a speeding ticket and lord knows most traffic citations are irritating in general, but do you want to see them move into the digital age? The question may be moot in certain parts of the country in fact. According to a story on Stateline.org, the state of Washington in the Pacific Northwest, home to Microsoft and other high-tech icons, is the latest to join the e-citation trend. It's outfitting several state police cars with devices that permit traffic citations to be processed electronically. Other states are looking into similar systems, Maryland for example recently said it would be implementing an "e-citation" program soon. North Carolina and Alabama already have them and a study by the U.S. Department of Transportation said at least 27 states were handling citations electronically in some form. http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/1486 5"

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