It’s been three decades since Linus Torvalds announced plans to release a free and open source operating system with a Unix-like feature set. In that time Linux has come a long, long way. There are hundreds of desktop operating systems based on the Linux kernel, although they still have a pretty tiny market share when […]
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Quickies: Hackintosh future is bright, Eee PC turns 2
Here are a few interesting tidbits found on the web today: OS X 10.6.2 probably will work on Atom-powered netbooks The other day the blogosphere was aflutter with the news that OS X 10.6.2 seemed to kill support for the Intel Atom processor, which would mean that virtually every netbook on the market would be […]
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Eee PC birthday celebration – with cake
As I mentioned yesterday, it was one year ago today that the first Eee PC was released in Taiwan. So the folks at Laptop Magazine (okay, really it was all Joanna’s idea, but she somehow convinced her coworkers to go along with it), decided to throw a birthday party. Complete with hats and cake. Seriously. […]
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Asus Eee PC 701SDX: Seriously, another one?
Eee PC News.de has snagged some images of an upcoming Eee PC that may be the $307 netbook Asus CEO Jerry Shen hinted at a few days ago. Aside from the fact that it will be called the Eee PC 701SDX and look a lot like the Eee PC 701, there’s not much known about […]