The lightweight Linux alternatives, Nov 29, 2007

Linux has proven amazingly flexible in turning itself to a wide range of computing tasks, and allowing you to tailor a system to your exact needs. Desktop customisation is no exception; from the ultra-modern KDE and GNOME window managers to with the likes of Fluxbox and AfterStep, there's a Linux desktop to suit everyone.

The One Laptop Per Child Association has been sued for patent infringement, charging the project with stealing its designs for a multilingual keyboard.

The U.K.-based company Sharp and Tappin Technology (STTech) is readying two PCs based on Via's recently introduced pico-ITX motherboard. The picoPC1 and picoPC2 measure as little as 5 x 3.4 x 1.5 inches, and feature separately available cases fashioned from billet aluminum, according to the company.

PayPal is currently processing $1,571 worth of transactions per second in 17 different currencies on about 4,000 servers running Red Hat Linux.

About half the embedded systems engineers that read EE Times Europe, are planning to use Linux as an embedded operating system, according to respondents to a poll.

Almost two thirds of Irish IT experts say the main motivation for migrating to the Linux operating system from UNIX for use in servers is cost, according to a recent survey from Novell’s Open Enterprise Summit in Dublin.

While conventional displays use memory-mapped regions to hold the data to be displayed, a new generation of slow but power-efficient display technology requires a new interface.

Mobile phone software stack vendor Access says it supplied the lightweight web browser used in Amazon's Linux-based "Kindle" ebook reader. The NetFront browser enables users to click through to linked reference sites, such as Wikipedia, while they are reading.

Last week, software developer Cliff Biffle wrote a blog post pointing out certain discrepancies in the source code archive made available by Asus for the Linux-based software platform distributed on the Eee PC.

For nearly a year, Fresno Unified school officials searched for a laptop that wouldn't clutter a student's desk.

Novell is shipping the first real-time SUSE Linux enterprise data center operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 10.

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