Jeremy Geelan's Social
Computing Blog: "Defining
Web 2.0...And Then Acting
On It"
Craig Tobias wrote: I
hear a lot of discussion
around defining Web 2.0;
I ...
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Wal-Mart To Sell $399 Ubuntu Linux-based Laptop with Google Operating System
It includes Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News, Google Maps, YouTube, Firefox, Skype, Facebook and OpenOffice 2.3
By: James Hamilton
May. 7, 2008 04:45 PM
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Dubbed the CloudBook, the thing uses a 1.2GHz VIA C7 processor and promises an average five-hours operation off a lithium-ion battery. It's equipped with a 7-inch TFT display (800 x 480 native resolution), 30GB internal storage, 512MB memory, digital video output, a 4-in-1 card reader and a 1.3MP webcam. The Ubuntu Linux-based gOS operating system from Good OS LLC (www.thinkgos.com) includes so many Google applications like Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News Google Maps and YouTube that it's often referred to as the Google operating system. It also includes Firefox, Skype, Facebook and OpenOffice 2.3.
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Everex, whose $199 gOS-based gPC desktop sold out at Wal-Mart in record time late last year, has now introduced a gOS-based 2lb ultra-mobile laptop that it plans to sell at Wal-Mart for $399 starting January 25.
Hybrid applications made
up of proprietary, open
source and third-party
components are the result
of today's fast-paced and
complex software
development landscape.
Applications developed
within the last five
years - whether internal
or external - are at
least 50% open source
software (
Sun's mule train has
finally pulled into
Indiana after three years
on the road. Indiana is
the Linux-friendly
Fedora-like OpenSolaris
project meant to move the
Solaris-shy Linux
community off Linux and
on to Solaris tempted by
Solaris widgetry like the
highly scalable,
rollback-easy, 1
MySQL has backed off a
plan to charge for some
encryption and
compression backup
widgetry in the next
version of the database -
and, heavens, NOT OPEN
SOURCE THE STUFF, an idea
it trotted a few weeks
ago and predictably
caught hell for. Sun,
which bought MySQL for a
billion dollars, a 
OpenOffice.org is
publicly beta testing
OpenOffice 3.0, which is
not recommended for
production use. General
release is expected in
September. Aside from
cosmetics, it will
support the upcoming
OpenDocument Format 1.2
and is capable of opening
Office 2007 and 2008 for
Mac OS X files.
Neocleus announced that
it has completed more
than 18 months of work to
enhance the Xen
hypervisor to work on
endpoints such as
desktops and laptops.
Neocleus will contribute
these enhancements to the
open source community to
accelerate the adoption
and development of a new
generation 
Brian Stevens, the Chief
Technology Officer and
Vice President of
Engineering of Red Hat,
delivered his
Virtualization Keynote
'The Future of the
Virtual Enterprise' at
SYS-CON's Virtualization
Conference & Expo 2007
West in San Francisco.
'Virtualization is the
hottest subject today,
