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Russia's Operating System May Be Fedora Based 242

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @11:32AM from the if-the-hat-is-red-wear-it dept.

Glyn Moody writes "Last month, a story about Russia producing its own national operating system based on GNU/Linux started circulating. Now there's some confirmation, and details of how the plan might be put into practice. Red Hat had a meeting with the Russian communications ministry, which announced that the development of free software in Russia was one of its priorities. One concrete idea they talked about was using the Russian Fedora project as a step towards creating a national operating system."

IBM Offers to Send Laid-Off Staff to Other Countries 493

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 06, 2009 @06:24PM from the employees-aren't-people dept.

TheAmit writes to tell us that many recently laid off IBM employees have been offered jobs if they will only move somewhere it is cheap to employ them. IBM's new Project Match program offers some financial assistance for moving and immigration help for visas. "However, the move has not gone well with the IBM staff union. Slamming the offer, a union spokesperson said that not only were jobs being shipped overseas, but Big Blue was trying to export the people for peanuts too. He added that at a time of rising unemployment IBM should be looking to keep both the work and the workers in the United States. "

Alan Cox Leaves Red Hat 163

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 30, 2008 @12:11PM from the bet-wherever-he's-going-he'll-have-electricity-and-heat dept.

ruphus13 writes "Alan Cox — one of the lead Linux kernel developers at Red Hat — is leaving the company after 10 years and is heading to Intel, where he can focus on more low-level development tasks. Some are speculating whether this is indicative of a shift to a more 'application-centric' vision at Red Hat. From the article: 'Red Hat is integrating more application related, user- and enterprise-centric tools into its well-established "low-level," "core" development and support tools. It'd be more worrisome if Red Hat neglected to strike out in this direction. Cox was with Red Hat for ten years, and regardless of any suspected change of course within the company, that's a fair amount of time.'"

Comment A note about eye candy (Score 1) 898

by BurfCurse on Monday December 29, 2008 @02:48PM (#26260205) Attached to: First Look At Windows 7 Beta 1

Why all the bitching about eye candy? I for one welcome a change in scenery. I stare at a computer screen for 14+ hours a day. After spending the last 6 years staring at XP, its nice to look at something different. Its the same reason people like to repaint their bedroom every couple of years. We get tired of looking at the same old shit. I'm not going to say that Vista doesn't have its share of problems. Just quit bitching about the eye candy.

Storm Causes AT&T Outage Across Midwest 213

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 29, 2008 @10:55AM from the guess-who-this-includes dept.

dstates writes "AT&T left users across several Midwestern states without cellular phone service yesterday. The outage apparently resulted from a power failure at a Michigan switching center and spread to affect level3 Internet communications. The powerful windstorm also left 400,000 users without electricity. Interestingly, except for a few reports in Chicago and Indianapolis papers, AT&T has managed to keep this out of the mainstream media. Widespread communication failures also followed Hurricane Ike in Texas earlier this year. With the increasing trend for users to drop landlines and rely only on cell phones, this is becoming an emergency preparedness issue." Yes this included me. Still does. At least my office still has power — maybe we'll just camp here tonight. :)

Penny Arcade On NPR 128

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday December 29, 2008 @09:14AM from the stuff-to-hear dept.

This morning on the NPR shuffle podcast, they included a segment about Penny Arcade. Seems only fair since NPR did Achewood a few months ago. If they just get XKCD on there, then the universe can rest.

Comment Re:Touchscreen alternatives? (Score 1) 392

by BurfCurse on Thursday September 11, 2008 @01:35PM (#24965349) Attached to: Apple Losing Touchscreen War

I need to move on from my XV6700 brick of a phone. I've narrowed it down to the HTC touch Diamond. Windows mobile blows, but I still want a phone that doesn't have a keyboard and I prefer to use a stylis over a built in keyboard. I started with a PALM device many years ago and got quite good at the "grafitti" input and Windows Mobile essentually supports it with its "block recognizer tool". I also wanted a device that was open to development (Yes, I know its not open source). The main gripe with the the Touch Diamond is that its sluggish and does not have an expansion slot for memory. The Sprint Version boasts a faster processor and I don't need more than 4 GB for what I use it for. Futher, I should be able to tether it without paying a monthly fee above what I pay for the data plan. Its also just the right size. This is basically the phone I've been dreaming of my entire life, except that it runs Windows Mobile. Should be coming to Sprint within the next month. Verizon shortly thereafter. Some GSM carriers will have it too, but CDMA coverage is much better where I'm at.

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