The $75 computer?, Jan 12, 2008

When the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) was first proposed, much was made of how impossible it was that there could ever be a $100 computer. Well, the naysayers were right. It turned out to be a $200 computer. Now, former OLPC Chief Technology Officer Mary Lou Jepsen says she can make a $75 laptop.

A British educational report suggests the upgrade would increase costs and create software compatibility problems while providing little benefit.

As Red Hat struggles to move off its lows, a former chief executive officer has sold $3.1 million of the open-source software company's stock.

With a new visual interface including new themes sounds and effects as well as a semantic file manager, speed and multimedia handling improvements, KDE 4 is a major release for the Linux desktop.

Lead author of the Kernel Report, Jonathan Corbet, details the Linux kernel development process, including licensing and patents, free drivers for wireless networking, vendor support and ZFS.

Want to run Mac OS X, Linux and Windows on the same machine? Then you’ll want to listen to SWsoft. This virtualization company claims its Parallels Server will let you run all these and more.

The next generation of KDE, the popular Linux desktop environment, has arrived. KDE 4.0 features a completely re-written core with new multimedia libraries, better hardware abstraction and desktop eye candy that puts Windows Vista to shame.

PC vendor Lenovo has promised ThinkPads with pre-installed Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 for some time now. Lenovo will deliver the goods the week of Jan. 14.

The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era.

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