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Linux Preinstalled Dell Available Soon 305

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 29, 2007 @12:45AM from the dude-you-got-open-source dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a BetaNews article, Dell confirmed on Wednesday plans to offer Linux pre-installed on select desktop and notebook systems, beyond its current Linux-based servers and Precision workstations. No specific time frame was given for the expanded Linux plans, although the company said in a blog posting that it will provide an update in the coming weeks regarding the effort. It will detail 'information on which systems we will offer, our testing and certification efforts, and the Linux distribution(s) that will be available,' Dell said, adding that, 'The countdown begins today.'"

Submission + - Google admits China censorship damaging.

Submitted by

pilsner.urquell

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @09:25AM

pilsner.urquell writes: "Google founders admitted that allowing China to censor its search engine did harm to the company.

Asked whether he regretted the decision, Mr Brin admitted yesterday: "On a business level, that decision to censor... was a net negative."

Google launched in China in 2005."

Submission + - European Launch Site for Virgin Galactic

Submitted by

syguy

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @09:22AM

syguy writes: "Richard Branson's sub-orbital space tourism venture, Virgin Galactic, is considering a second launch site in Europe. Already committed to Spaceport America near Upham, New Mexico, USA, Virgin Galactic is in early talks with the Swedish company, Spaceport, to provide sub-orbital flights from Kiruna airport, Sweden. Attracted by the prospect of flying through the Aura Borealis or Northern Lights, the first flights could occur in 2011."

Submission + - Wikipedia and Plagiarism

Submitted by Spo22a on Sunday November 05, 2006 @08:18AM

Spo22a writes: Daniel Brandt found the examples of suspected plagiarism at Wikipedia using a program he created to run a few sentences from about 12,000 articles against Google Inc.'s search engine. He removed matches in which another site appeared to be copying from Wikipedia, rather than the other way around, and examples in which material is in the public domain and was properly attributed. Brandt ended with a list of 142 articles, which he brought to Wikipedia's attention. . . . ."They present it as an encyclopedia," Brandt said Friday. "They go around claiming it's almost as good as Britannica. They are trying to be mainstream respectable."

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