For a tiny notebook, eee-sy does it, Feb 29, 2008

All empirical evidence tends to prove that the standard unit of currency for Awesomeness in mobile computing in the past year is $400. It's the price of everything I've reviewed recently in that category which has really made my Spidey-Sense tingle. First the $399 iPhone, then the $399 Kindle . . . and now the eee PC ultracompact notebook by ASUS. It's $350, which gives you $50 left over for a couple of steaks.

Think of it as the biggest Linux swap partition in the world, since the whole system is running on Debian Linux. The genome project uses open source software as much as possible, and one of its major databases is run on MySQL, although others rely on Oracle.

One person's trash is another's treasure, and this weekend open source vendors and community members plan to join forces with a Northern Californian recycling organization to transform hundreds of desktop and laptops into PCs loaded with Ubuntu, Firefox, OpenOffice and more to be donated to needy area schools.

Worldwide sales of servers rose modestly in the fourth quarter of 2007, driven primarily by rising revenues from volume systems, which include x86 Windows and Linux servers, a market research firm said Wednesday.

Igel Techology has announced the incorporation of Philips SpeechMagic voice recognition technology into its thin client devices. Operable with or without training, the technology supports 25 different languages, allows dictation directly into templates, and permits switching between client- and server-based recognition, according to the company.

Adobe Systems hopes to make nice with the open-source community and soon deliver a Linux version of its newly released Adobe Integrated Runtime.

Time to catch up with numerous filings in the bankruptcy. Folks heard about the proposed reorganization and may be smelling money in the air, I gather, because here comes a creditor, Citi Financial, who's decided it's worth it now to hook a car to the creditors' train and send in their lawyers.

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