Users split over naked PCs, Oct 02, 2007

A European thinktank's recent recommendation that computers should be sold without an operating system — so-called "naked PCs" — in order to tackle Microsoft's dominant position and foster competition in the operating-system marketplace has got readers fired up.

Linux is ready to take on a more serious role in enterprises, a senior Hewlett-Packard executive has said.

The Canary Islands have two derivatives of Kubuntu, one which is being installed in all their schools and one used by the largest university.

For some time, we have not heard anything about the patent sellout which Novell inked with Microsoft 11 months ago. Microsoft has since used the deal as the basis for spreading FUD about Linux, with claims that the free operating system could be in violation of as many as 235 patents which Microsoft claims to own.

Kick-start your week with four easy (but still cool) tricks on your Linux desktop. Install the media server you've always wanted but never got around to doing, or fine-tune your hardware to squeeze out a few more hours of battery power ... All this an more in this week's How To Roundup. Oh, and send us your favourite Linux tricks.

If the corporate Grim Reaper is truly knocking on the door of The SCO Group Inc., no one apparently told the company's CEO and president, Darl C. McBride.

Israel-based Emblaze Mobile has announced a mysterious new mobile communications device, expected to ship in 2008. The undefined and unnamed device reportedly has been developed in collaboration with Sharp and Access, the latter of which has lately been hard at work perfecting a Linux stack for mobile devices.

I have to wonder- where on Earth did Ms. Fairchild get the idea that alienating her customers is a good business practice? So what if she finds sexist, demeaning humor funny? It doesn't belong in Linux Journal.

2.6.23-rc9 has been released today.
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