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24 open source apps for Asus netbooks. Good tools for Windows and Linux systems.

Apache better than GPL for open source business? What's the optimal license for commercial open source projects?

Linux fast-boot tech targets Windows users. Xandros' Presto utility can power up Windows notebooks and netbooks in seconds.

ReactOS improves its open source Windows clone. The operating system's server version has a very low memory footprint.

Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring is available. It features excellent hardware compatibility and the KDE 4.2 desktop environment.



HP Is Putting SUSE Linux on Business Notebooks: A Good Sign?

Today, Hewlett-Packard--the world's number one PC vendor--has announced a new line of notebook computers called ProBooks, with one shown here. The systems fall into the prosumer space (professional/consumer) and are bigger and more fully stocked than most netbooks. Notably, HP is offering SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 as an operating system choice on the ProBooks, in addition to Windows Vista and XP. HP's arch-rival Dell is also continuing to ship portable computers with Linux installed, and is seeing many users satisfied with Linux. Can Linux remain a fixture on portable systems?


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Apple needs open source in the enterprise. Open source software apps are often multi-platform, which makes open source a potentially useful tool for Apple.

Open source NFS client on tap for Windows? Microsoft has sponsored research at the University of Michigan to develop an open source Network File System client.

Opinion: Microsoft still harming netbook markets. A memo that Microsoft reportedly issued to its Top 20 OEMs told them what they could and could not have in a Windows netbook computer. Is the company imposing restrictive limitations on what hardware can run what operating system?

Security flaw leads Twitter, others to pull OAuth support. The open source OAuth protocol acts as a valet key for users' log-in information at both Twitter and Yahoo!.

Appetizer is a slick, dock-style open source application launcher for Windows. You can run it from a USB thumb drive.



Lenovo Analyst: [A Circa-1998 Version of] Linux on Netbooks Is Doomed

Because it's only proper to give credit where it's due, Matt Kohut, Worldwide Competitive Analyst for Lenovo, could be spot on in his prediction that Linux will remain a niche market on netbooks. Heck, netbooks could be called a niche market -- I guess it would all come down to how you define and apply niche in given areas.

Usually, when someone (particularly an industry analyst) puts forth such a prediction, it is followed by the reasoning that drew him to such a conclusion. Kohut explained his theory to TECH.BLORGE, highlighting a few issues Linux grapples with today, and many, many more that were laid to rest years ago.



Confirmation: Motorola Will Deliver an Android-Based Set-Top Box

Recently, we've covered several new opportunities, including non-phone platforms such as netbooks, e-ink devices, and set-top boxes, for Google's open source Android operating system. Today, GigaOm and Information Week are discussing confirmation of what is likely to be the first fully-realized, non-phone hardware implementation of Android: a set-top box from Motorola called au Box. It's being made by Motorola for Japanese Internet service provider KDDI, and, according to Information Week, it will be capable of playing DVDs and CDs, transferring music and video to a mobile device, and ripping and storing files. That sounds a lot like full-blown computer, and there is another way the au Box will be a lot like a computer. Here are more details.


Why Netbooks Are an Enduring Hardware Category

Dana Blankenhorn has an interesting item up about netbooks, reacting to a post from Royal Pingdom which cites applications for netbooks that are very much like applications for smartphones. The Royal Pingdom folks cite wardriving from the loo, and checking competitive prices outside shops as emerging netbook applications. I agree with Blankenhorn that smartphones are fine for many of these applications, but after using a couple of netbooks for more than a year now, I see them as an important category that fits between smartphones and laptops.


Hardware Makers Are Reportedly Moving Closer to Android Netbooks

We've reported on successful efforts to run the Android OS on netbooks and e-ink devices, and on how Android may ultimately be more successful on these platforms than on phones. Among other developments on this front, Qualcomm is running Android on its Snapdragon chipset designed for netbooks and mobile Internet devices. (Another Qualcomm chip powers the G1 Android phone.) Now, in a post called One Step Closer to the Google Linux Desktop, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is analyzing reports that Hewlett-Packard, ASUS, and other computer makers are in talks with Google about putting Android on netbooks.