Linux + ARM = World Liberation
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Name ChangeI've been thinking for a while that the name of this twine should be changed to something that more appropriately reflects what is happening as the PC industry as it moves from a monolithic, monopolistic cartel, to a more open platform. This is not domination, this is liberation. Domination ...
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techvideoblog.com » Blog Archive » $80 Android Laptop, Menq EasyPC E790Here is the cheapest laptop in the world. It can run Android since it is based on a Samsung ARM926EJ-S3C2450 processor, but for now this review unit that I am reviewing in this video only runs Windows CE 5.0. Check back hopefully within a month for another video when Menq may have sent me a ...
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Lenovo returns to the Linux desktop - Computerworld BlogsSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols Cyber Cynic November 13, 2009 - 11:34 A.M. Lenovo might not describe their return to the Linux desktop like that, but that's what they're doing. Yesterday, November 12th, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs gave the world a sneak peak at the Lenovo ARM Snapdragon-powered ...
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Linux Will Have Increased Presence as Netbook OS | NetbookBoards.comLinux Will Have Increased Presence as Netbook OS subscribe to the RSS feed Myth: The Linux netbook is dying out. According to ABI, nearly one third of 35 million netbooks will ship in 2009 with some variant of the Linux OS. The exact split is 32% Linux versus 68% Windows so ...
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ARM vs. Atom: The battle for the next digital frontier | Hardware - InfoWorldARM vs. Atom: The battle for the next digital frontier Small, inexpensive, power-efficient new chips from Intel and ARM are enabling the new wave of mobile devices -- and setting the two companies on a collision course For once, Intel knows how it feels to be the underdog. Over the past ...
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ASUS' Android-based 'secret weapon' smartbook launching in Q1We got our first glimpse at a computing future filled with low-cost, ARM-based ASUS smartbooks running Android on a 1GHz Snapdragon processor all the way back on June 1st. Since then, however, the pencil-spinning boys in Taiwan have been poo-pooing plans to launch such a device due to what ASUS ...
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Asus to launch a $180 smartbook in early 2010Asus to launch a $180 smartbook in early 2010 Asus CEO Jerry Shen says that the company will launch a smartbook during the first quarter of 2010. There aren’t any further details, but smartbooks are typically defined as low power, 3G-enabled ultraportable laptops with ARM-based processors. ...
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Yes, Ubuntu can absolutely be the default Windows alternative | Between the Lines | ZDNet.comOctober 27th, 2009 Yes, Ubuntu can absolutely be the default Windows alternative And I don’t just mean for geeks. I mean a real, viable alternative to Windows for many users despite the apparent quality of both Windows 7 and Server 2008. About a year and a half ago, ZDNet’s Adrian ...
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What Windows7 could mean for Linux | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.comOctober 24th, 2009 What Windows7 could mean for Linux I’ve had people using Windows 7 for about three months now, and everything about it so far seems to confirm my first impression that it’s a lot better than Vista: effectively reprising the consolidation and debugging Windows 98 offered ...
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Pallab’s Place » Armada by Marvell – New ARM based application processorsMarvell has been well known for its communications, interface and embedded controller chips. They currently make about 1 Billion chips a year, and about 65% of them have at least one ARM core in them. Based on this expertise, leveraging their ARM architecture license and the custom processor ...
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