Linux goes walkabout, Mar 05, 2008

While Canadian telcos are still dragging their feet in following the U.S. example of making cellphone data fees more competitive, the U.S. telcos are about to scratch each other’s eyes out after the arrival of Linux-based handsets.

One of the most ambitious non-governmental aid projects is the One Laptop Per Child project, which had started life as a notion of putting rugged, simple computers worth $100 into the hands of Third-World countries.

[Katie McAuliff, president of Novell Canada] sat down with Jack Kapica of Globetechnology.com to explain her company and its plans.

Xandros Desktop has been out two years now, and Xandros Server, released May 1, has undergone extensive trials. But its maturity has not yet made much of an impact on the industry.

If you miss the older days of fiddling with your operating system, or you enjoy getting your hands a little dirty, you can't do better than this. And if you have reasonably conventional hardware, you can probably be up and running out of the box in no time, with several software suites.