New toys

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Mark Urbin

I recently got my nerdy paws a pair of Asus Eee PC netbooks. (Thanks John!)  These are the ones running LINUX off solid state drives. I’ve got one updating, but the 4 Gig system drive on the other is full, and I’m going to have to find a way to clean that up.

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Another entry into the Netbook OS market

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Mark Urbin

Intel has their own custom blend of Linux for netbook computers, called Moblin. Release 2.0 was just announced.  It’s got a slick UI and takes advange of special features of Intel’s Atom chip, which is found in a lot of netbook. I don’t think it will sell as well as Windows 7 or Android, but [...]

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Android as a Netbook OS

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Mark Urbin

There has been grumbling about the lack of cell phone platforms available for Google’s Android OS. Perhaps it is because the cell phone platform was just a Beta test for Android. Rumors about Android being targeted for Netbooks have been around for a while.  Well, it’s not a rumor anymore.  Android has been successfully loaded [...]

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A long post on Operating Systems.

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Mark Urbin

It’s an interesting time for operating systems. The landscape was Microsoft dominating, Apple with a small, but fanatically loyal share and LINUX pulling up a distant third with a tiny hardcore geek base. Then Microsoft decided to make its users relive the ME days with Vista, only worse. The timing was horrible, since Apple was [...]

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Dell enters the small notebook market

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Mark Urbin

The NY Times reports that Dell is entering the low cost, mini-notebook computer market. It’s called the Mini 9. For $349 you get Ubuntu LINUX. For another $50, you can have XP. The base model has 512 Meg of RAM and a 4 Gig solid state flash “hard” drive.   You can get more RAM and [...]

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Linux Phone

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Mark Urbin

Here is the Neo Freerunner, running openmoko. Update: It’s a GSM device.

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